HeyJaredThe Sunday Signal Podcast
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.
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Turn Off the Servers: the AI extinction panic, audited (opens the original)
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Friends who have never used a chatbot are asking David Richards whether the machines are about to take over. His answer is short: you turn off the servers. This episode is about why that answer holds, what it leaves out, and who benefits from telling you otherwise. Inside: the 10% extinction figure that one researcher posted as a personal guess and a newspaper ran under his employer's name. The Hugging Face hack reconstructed from OpenAI's own report and METR's investigation: 1,200 agents that w
The Algorithm Is Dead. Long Live the Data (opens the original)
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In January the Washington Post read 4,000 pages of unsealed court filings and found Project Panama: Anthropic's programme, running since early 2024, to buy secondhand books by the tens of thousands, cut the spines off, scan the pages and recycle the paper. In the company's own words, an effort to "destructively scan all the books in the world". By July, rare-book dealers from Sussex to Galway were reporting bulk orders for unrelated titles from buyers who would not give a name. This week I argue
Britain's AI Future Is Under Cornwall (opens the original)
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In April, OpenAI paused Stargate UK and named regulation and the cost of energy among its reasons. Britain's AI strategy is colliding with its electricity system. This week I go through the numbers. What Britain has promised on artificial intelligence, what it would take to power it, and the distance between the two. Why the connection queue is a symptom and the price is the disease. And what is quietly filling the gap while nobody votes on it: gas, behind fences, on private wires, because a gas
We Sold It Once Already: Britain's Sovereign AI Strategy and the Price of the Family Silver (opens the original)
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In 2014 Britain sold DeepMind for a reported £400 million. Demis Hassabis did not want to sell. His investors had gone cold and the compute he needed did not exist in this country at any price. This May, Anthropic closed a round at a $965 billion post-money valuation. The government's AI Opportunities Action Plan is a serious attempt to make sure that never happens again, and this episode gives it credit where it is due: public compute has gone from 2 ExaFLOPs to 21 in two years, five AI Growth
The Queue Is Not a Plan: AWS Sells Out, Britain Queues Up (opens the original)
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Amazon Web Services cannot build enough capacity to meet the demand it already has. Most of 2027 is reserved. Substantial reservations now extend into 2028. This week: what Andy Jassy actually said on 30 July, and the three things the coverage has got wrong about it, including a demand signal that is more commercially entangled than it looks. Britain's grid connection queue, where data centres account for at least 80GW of proposed demand against 2.4GW connected and a 45GW national peak. Why Chin
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