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The Machine Was Never the Asset
A Beijing lab has just repriced access to near-frontier intelligence. The pressure is building beneath nearly $2 tn of American AI valuation. Britain…
 • David Richards MBE
The Calculator Was Cheating Too
A professor hid a word in white text and caught 32 of his 35 students. Every generation calls the new tool cheating, then quietly changes the test…
 • David Richards MBE
The 15-Minute Lawyer
An email from a City banker shows a £250K legal clock running on a £2m capital raise. A startup is doing the same class of work in 15 mins. And Centrica…
 • David Richards MBE
What Would the Victorians Do?
Resurrect the railway barons, hand them a gigawatt data centre, and stand well back. A thought experiment about British speed, the Beijing lab that is…
 • David Richards MBE
THE SIGNAL PLAYBOOK · No. 1 · Turn Claude Into Your Travel Desk
Twenty reusable workflows for flights, hotels, borders, food, scams and jet lag. Copy them, fill in the brackets, keep them forever.
 • David Richards MBE
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The AI Wars Go Agentic
In three days this week, four labs shipped four major AI models and cut the price of machine cognition.
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The Counterfeit Mind
A £15 fake shirt and a copied frontier AI. One is a knock-off. The other is the theft of a mind.
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The $60 billion company that broke the rulebook
A 300-person company just sold for $60B. The three numbers we used to judge every business no longer hold.
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The Silicon Curtain
A single letter from Washington switched off the world's best AI overnight. The new cold war will be fought over access, and Britain is running on…
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The Bear and the Fly
I wrote this newsletter on Friday with Claude Fable 5 as my research assistant. It was fast. Very fast, & a step ahead of anything else I have used. By…
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The £10 Billion Goldmine Britain Keeps Giving Away
We sold DeepMind to America for four hundred million pounds. Now a politician is selling our NHS data. We have done this before, and we never seem to…
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The Floor Is Moving
Coding showed the pattern first. The back office, the ledger and the brief are next. And the people deciding your future are reading a map that went out…
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