John Thornhill

The co-founder of the UK-based science start-up explains how AI can help create new materials to address some of the world’s most complex challenges

Talented researchers and entrepreneurs have built a dynamic start-up ecosystem that deserves to be magnified

The shock news for Britain's tech community last week was the announcement that Sir Demis Hassabis would be floating upwards to become Google DeepMind's chair and chief scientist at Alphabet.

It remains unclear what this reshuffle means for London as an AI centre, writes Sifted founder John Thornhill.

A sense of fatalistic inevitability about the technology’s evolution is triggering something close to despair

This week on the podcast, host John Thornhill is joined by Uljan Sharka, the founder and CEO of Italian AI unicorn Domyn.

Companies developing new materials with previously unknown properties could change the material world

Two of the legendary pioneers of the West Coast VC industry — Arthur Rock and Don Valentine — had very different investment theses.

Bipedal robots may look impressive doing tricks on YouTube, but the real value lies with their less flashy, highly functional industrial cousins

Many people discount everything that Bill Gates has to say nowadays. The Silicon Valley in-crowd tend to stifle a yawn whenever the 70-year-old