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John Thornhill

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The exorbitant privilege of the US brain gain is fading

In India, domestic tech entrepreneurs are outperforming those who return home after a stint in Silicon Valley

13.02.2026 200

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AI agents are prompting human boom scrolling

Moltbook and Claude Cowork are pushing the ‘vibe coding’ revolution forward

06.02.2026 30

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Want to solve deepfakes? Ask citizens what to do

Assemblies can bridge the gap between people being treated as voters and consumers

30.01.2026 30

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Thanks Donald, Europe will take it from here

The continent must strive to disentangle itself from the US

23.01.2026 40

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Venture capital’s ‘spray and pray’ playbook lowers AI barriers of entry

The latest investment frenzy is heavily concentrated in one sector

16.01.2026 70

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For now, autonomous vehicles still need humans

AI must learn to reckon with a world much messier than any computer simulation

09.01.2026 30

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SpyGPT will shake James Bond’s world

Open-source data and machine learning tools mean the challenge is not information scarcity but information overload

20.12.2025 60

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The mind-bending complexities of quantum investing

There’s a lot of enthusiasm over what is increasingly seen as the next big frontier in computing

12.12.2025 30

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The US may be running the wrong AI race

China’s favouring of small and cheap models such as DeepSeek could prove to be the better bet

05.12.2025 20

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Taming the four horsemen of the infocalypse

Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online

27.11.2025 30

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Europe’s tech sector is evolving fast. Is it fast enough?

Despite record expansion and growing ambition in the continent, the US is surging ahead again

20.11.2025 20

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Tackling social media’s ‘monster’ problem

Banning addictive apps for children is not about restricting free speech, but defending free will

13.11.2025 30

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Who’s right about AI: economists or technologists?

Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics

07.11.2025 20

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It’s time to build the intention economy online

Tim Berners-Lee believes AI offers a chance to reset to a system that serves individuals’ needs and privacy

31.10.2025 20

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AI’s double bubble trouble

There is a distinction between good investment and bad speculation — the likelihood is we are experiencing both

17.10.2025 20

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The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI

Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence

09.10.2025 30

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Drone attacks threaten us all

Emergency investment in the technology does not amount to a long-term defence strategy

03.10.2025 20

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Miracle capitalism: where next?

The US innovation model may be universally admired but its foundations are being undermined

25.09.2025 10

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AI models must adapt or die

The technology has already consumed almost all high-quality data — experience is now the dominant medium of improvement

19.09.2025 20

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Mistral is stirring up a storm in European tech

ASML deal connects two impressive tech companies but the capital available is a fraction of that in the US

11.09.2025 10

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How ‘neural fingerprinting’ could analyse our minds

New brain-scanning technology is both tantalising and disturbing

05.09.2025 30

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AI is opening up nature’s treasure chest

Creating a machine-readable scientific database of species could deepen our understanding of the natural world

29.08.2025 30

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Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI

History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction

22.08.2025 70

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The venture capital money machine is spinning again

Figma’s blockbuster IPO highlights the outsized gains that can be made from early-stage investment

08.08.2025 30

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Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots

Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models

18.07.2025 60

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‘Vibe managers’ have yet to find their groove

An experiment that used an AI agent to act as a shopkeeper produced some bizarre results

10.07.2025 60

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I’m human. Are you? The battle for our online identity

The increasing ubiquity of AI makes it harder to authenticate who someone is in the digital realm

04.07.2025 20

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We are the new gremlins in the AI machine

How users treat a product in the real world can diverge wildly from what the designers intended

26.06.2025 20

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