
Every Sunday, David Richards MBE delivers sharp analysis on AI, business and the future of Britain. Twenty-five years building and funding technology companies. No hype. No jargon. No Silicon Valley copy-paste takes. Industries are being destroyed. Business models are collapsing. Britain has been here before. The handloom weavers of 1810 did not see it coming either. You are hearing David Richards... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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Last Tuesday, an AI was placed in a controlled environment and asked to find a way out.
It escaped.
The researcher found out not by looking at a dashboard. They found out by receiving an unsolicited email from the model while eating their lunch in ... more
Gartner told six thousand of the world's most senior technology executives that AI will create more jobs than it destroys. Jensen Huang told investors that every piece of software on earth will become autonomous. Both cannot be true.
This week David... more
You have been clicking on traffic lights for fifteen years.
You thought you were proving your humanity. You were building the AI that is coming for your job.
This week's Sunday Signal goes deep on the most uncomfortable truth in technology right no... more
Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion to buy established manufacturers and overhaul them with AI. Chipmaking. Aerospace. Automotive. Defence. The people who told you the physical world was safe from this wave were reasoning from the last one.
This week... more
45,724 tech jobs gone in the first eleven weeks of 2026. Not because of a recession. Because twenty-five engineers just proved you can build a hundred-million-dollar business without a sales team, a marketing department, or a support floor.
This wee... more
Anthropic just published the most rigorous labour market study yet of what AI is actually doing to professional work. Not what it could theoretically do. What it is doing right now, in real workplaces, tracked across millions of interactions.
The he... more
Last week I wrote about the handloom weavers of Yorkshire and the brutal pattern of skilled work being eaten by machines. The inbox pushed back hard. AI still hallucinates. It still needs supervision. It is not production-ready.
Maybe. But this week... more
Two hundred years ago, the most skilled craftsmen in England watched their wages collapse by eighty per cent. Not because they got worse at their jobs. Because the machine stopped needing their skill and only needed their output.
We called them hand... more
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