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The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI

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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 10

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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 10

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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 9

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How ‘neural fingerprinting’ could analyse our minds

New brain-scanning technology is both tantalising and disturbing

05.09.2025 10

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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 10

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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 50

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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 40

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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 50

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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 30

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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 10

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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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Britain’s moonshot factory has a moment of opportunity

An agency fed by government money aims to create an innovation wave in science rather than surf it

20.06.2025 40

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Are machines smarter than venture capitalists?

Most VC firms are not yet ditching human experience, but a few pioneers are about to go all in on quant trading

13.06.2025 10

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We need a new deal for the web

The speed and direction of AI’s transformation of the digital economy raises fears of its viability and predatory bots

05.06.2025 3

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The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot

AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game

30.05.2025 50

John Thornhill

Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit

Large language models are unconcerned with truth because they have no concept of it — and therein lies the danger

23.05.2025 30

John Thornhill

US AI laws risk becoming more ‘European’ than Europe’s

An intense battle may now erupt over who has the right to regulate — or deregulate — technology

15.05.2025 3

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OpenAI still has a governance problem

Remaining under the control of a non-profit board does not negate the risks of increasingly autonomous AI models

08.05.2025 10

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What papal conclaves can teach democracies about voting

When an electoral system evolves over time, it can be surprisingly effective

24.04.2025 20

John Thornhill

Three ideas to energise British tech

A vibe shift is needed to close the gap between the UK and Silicon Valley

17.04.2025 4

John Thornhill

Ukraine is winning the drone start-up war

Experimentation on the battlefield and fast development of cheap, smart solutions helps the country resist Russia

10.04.2025 5

John Thornhill

Wealthy cities may be surprise losers from AI automation

The geographic pattern of digital dislocation’s impact may be very different from that of previous waves of automation

03.04.2025 10

John Thornhill

The promise of the fifth estate is being squeezed

After social media rattled the old gatekeepers of information, new digital ones have emerged

20.03.2025 10

John Thornhill

It’s time for Europe’s deep tech companies to go big

Reasserting technological sovereignty is becoming increasingly urgent

13.03.2025 9

John Thornhill

Soviet-style ‘inner emigration’ is no escape from today’s reality

Tuning out the external world may be tempting but it’s the wrong strategy

06.03.2025 20

John Thornhill

Help is coming in the AI copyright wars

Artificial intelligence companies must decide how to pay for the human-generated content they need

27.02.2025 5

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Patience pays off in quantum computing

Microsoft’s qubit breakthrough is a welcome shot of adrenaline for the industry

20.02.2025 10

John Thornhill

Make AI safe again

It is a fallacy to believe there is a trade-off between regulation and innovation

13.02.2025 8

John Thornhill

Overstretched healthcare should welcome the rise of the AI body scan

Trustworthy private providers could help overburdened services with their capacity issues

06.02.2025 3

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With DeepSeek, China innovates and the US imitates

The start-up’s breakthrough confounds outworn prejudices about the two countries

30.01.2025 6

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Trump is becoming the technoking of America

The president is surrounded by the leaders of the richest and most powerful companies in history — but their dominance may yet be checked

24.01.2025 10

John Thornhill

A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly

The emergence of a powerful tech elite close to Donald Trump has jarring echoes with Russia

16.01.2025 20

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‘Superintelligence’ will take time to generate super returns

Artificial general intelligence may be transformational but it carries risks and demands investors’ patience

09.01.2025 10

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Can France become a global AI powerhouse?

Momentum has been slowing but the country boasts enviable technical skills and a burgeoning entrepreurial culture

02.01.2025 5

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AI is the frenemy of freedom

An optimistic view of the technology sees the possibility of it offering humans ‘superagency’ rather than as a threat

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The future of AI agents: highly lucrative but surprisingly boring

Big companies are trumpeting the value of consumer-facing personal digital helpers to make our lives easier

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Silicon Valley billionaires remain in thrall to the cult of the geek

IQ hierarchies are a dangerous myth

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Europe Inc needs to scale up or risk becoming a museum

Helsinki shows how reinvigoration can work but co-ordinated help for entrepreneurs across the continent is needed

21.11.2024 10

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Genetic data is worth more than warm spit

The woes of 23andMe highlight consumer concern over privacy issues

14.11.2024 4

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Cyber security companies are thriving — even when they fail

This may be the ultimate industry for providing very lucrative but ineffective solutions

31.10.2024 10

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Corporate wizards out-magic the muggles

Sectors like semiconductors and AI can reshape — or, in some cases, conjure up entirely new — markets

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Will AI ‘compress’ the 21st century?

Several of the top AI leaders are now tamping down the fear factor and turning up the volume on hope and hype

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The conflicted investment case for defence tech

There’s a bull market for the fast-changing sector but investing and innovating in weapons carries risks

03.10.2024 5

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Can machines be more ‘truthful’ than humans?

A new film based on the life of Brian Eno raises some profound questions about the disruptive effects of AI

26.09.2024 5

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Time is running out for TikTok in the US

The social media platform is threatened with a ban but remains wildly popular among users, including Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

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Failure is a feature, not a bug, of dynamic business

Not everyone learns from things going wrong but progress depends upon it

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Why Europe needs its own Nasdaq

The EU has to tackle the drain of valuable tech companies to US capital markets

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