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Melissa Heikkilä

AI Correspondent

Financial Times

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Artificial Intelligence

About Me

Melissa is the FT's AI Correspondent, and has covered AI for the better part of the decade. Prior to joining the newspaper, she was a senior reporter for AI at MIT Technology Review, and Politico's AI Correspondent in London and Brussels. She was named Finnish Science Journalist of the Year in 2025 and in 2024 one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.