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Hosted by David Richards MBE · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 26 episodes
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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 MBE. His words. His voice. Cloned by AI. That is not a gimmick. It is the argument made audible.Clear analysis. Real experience. No noise.Subscribe to the newsletter: https://TheSundaySignal.ai
David Richards MBE hosts The Sunday Signal Podcast, a technology show with 26 episodes published.
In 2013 a group of Berkeley researchers sat in my office in Silicon Valley asking for funding for an academic project called Spark. They were not on my calendar by accident. They were there because Konstantin Boudnik, on
On 16 July a Beijing lab most British executives had never heard of released an open-weight AI model that joined the leading proprietary systems. Eleven days later it published the weights. Within a fortnight the White H
A history professor in Mississippi buried one instruction inside an exam question, in white text, invisible on the page. Put the word Madagascar somewhere in the answer, it said, in a way that makes no sense. Thirty-two
A City investment banker shared an email that should embarrass an entire profession: a law firm ran up nearly £250,000 of billable time on a stock market listing raising just £2m. That's 12.5% of the growth capital, gone
What would the Victorians do to make the British economy leading again? This Week: A thought experiment that resurrects the railway barons and hands them a one-gigawatt data centre; Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, the 2.8-trillio
Four major AI models landed in three days: Tencent's Hunyuan Hy3, xAI's Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6. Anthropic returned from a short-lived export-control suspension. And there is no single winner
In Times Square last week, during the World Cup, David Richards could buy any nation's shirt for the price of lunch. Now, Anthropic has accused Alibaba of doing the same thing to Claude. This episode traces the largest A
A company with around 300 people just sold for sixty billion dollars. The three numbers we used to judge every business, headcount, revenue and profit, no longer hold. Cursor just proved it. In this episode of The Sunday
Whatever you believe about AI, check the date on it. In this field, out of date means days, not years. This week three things landed together: a Sequoia keynote arguing this is a revolution in computation rather than com
The AI energy debate has been built on a single assumption. That hyperscalers will buy raw electricity at any premium because they have no other choice. A British company in Oxford has the receipts to prove that assumpti
The professional CEO era may be ending. For decades, the moment a technical founder built something valuable, investors, universities and boards reached for the same answer: install adult supervision. Bring in the polish
Issue #53 of The Sunday Signal. Sunday 10 May 2026. Healthcare is the most regulated, slowest-moving and institutionally defended industry in the modern economy. This week, all three of those defences cracked in the same
Musk on the stand. LeCun staking a billion. And every adviser, founder and junior in Britain learning what happens when they hand theirs to a machine. This week's issue opens in a federal courthouse in Oakland, where Elo
For the first time in its 51-year history, Microsoft has offered voluntary retirement to thousands of its veterans. On Polymarket, real money is wagering at 90 per cent that 2026 will finish with more US tech layoffs tha
In January 2000, Pets.com paid $2.2 million for thirty seconds of Super Bowl airtime and sent a sock puppet. Nine months later the company was bankrupt. The sock puppet survived. The lesson did not. Issue 50 of The Sunda
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
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 ca
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
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
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,
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