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John ThornhillFinancial Times |
In India, domestic tech entrepreneurs are outperforming those who return home after a stint in Silicon Valley
Moltbook and Claude Cowork are pushing the ‘vibe coding’ revolution forward
Assemblies can bridge the gap between people being treated as voters and consumers
The continent must strive to disentangle itself from the US
The latest investment frenzy is heavily concentrated in one sector
AI must learn to reckon with a world much messier than any computer simulation
Open-source data and machine learning tools mean the challenge is not information scarcity but information overload
There’s a lot of enthusiasm over what is increasingly seen as the next big frontier in computing
China’s favouring of small and cheap models such as DeepSeek could prove to be the better bet
Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online
Despite record expansion and growing ambition in the continent, the US is surging ahead again
Banning addictive apps for children is not about restricting free speech, but defending free will
Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics
Tim Berners-Lee believes AI offers a chance to reset to a system that serves individuals’ needs and privacy
There is a distinction between good investment and bad speculation — the likelihood is we are experiencing both
Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence
Emergency investment in the technology does not amount to a long-term defence strategy
The US innovation model may be universally admired but its foundations are being undermined
The technology has already consumed almost all high-quality data — experience is now the dominant medium of improvement
ASML deal connects two impressive tech companies but the capital available is a fraction of that in the US
New brain-scanning technology is both tantalising and disturbing
Creating a machine-readable scientific database of species could deepen our understanding of the natural world
History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction
Figma’s blockbuster IPO highlights the outsized gains that can be made from early-stage investment
Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models
An experiment that used an AI agent to act as a shopkeeper produced some bizarre results
The increasing ubiquity of AI makes it harder to authenticate who someone is in the digital realm
How users treat a product in the real world can diverge wildly from what the designers intended