Empowering AI Startups | Co-Founder @ Yorkshire AI Labs | Democratising VC | MBE | Philanthropist & Tech Visionary The Sunday Signal Newsletter: https://TheSundaySignal.aihttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mrjuytpwi225An 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 showed what happens to everyone in between. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-15-minute-lawyer?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web26 Jul 2026 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrjuytpwi225https://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mqyjlfrp4k2rWhat Would the Victorians Do? https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/what-would-the-victorians-do?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web19 Jul 2026 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqyjlfrp4k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mpq7jy3d6k2tBritain once made the future walk: early motor cars had to crawl behind a man with a red flag. That is the risk with AI regulation now. We need brakes, not flags. Regulate the failures, not the future. More in today’s Yorkshire Post and The Sunday Signal (thesundaysignal.ai)03 Jul 2026 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpq7jy3d6k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mpq76o5rsk2tBritain once made the future walk. In 1865, every self-propelled road vehicle had to crawl behind a man 60 yards ahead carrying a red flag. It looked cautious. It was catastrophic. While others built the motor age, Britain forced the machine to follow a pedestrian.03 Jul 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpq76o5rsk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mpduxexaos2zThe $60 billion company that broke the rulebook https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-60-billion-company-that-broke?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web28 Jun 2026 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpduxexaos2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mosjegacok22One letter from Washington switched off the world's two most capable AI models, worldwide, in hours. The opening shot of an AI cold war? Read the full breakdown. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-silicon-curtain?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web21 Jun 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mosjegacok22https://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3moacrlecj22oThe Bear and the Fly https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-bear-and-the-fly?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web14 Jun 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3moacrlecj22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mnokxyjel22qThe £10 Billion Goldmine Britain Keeps Giving Away https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-10-billion-goldmine-britain-keeps?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web07 Jun 2026 06:45 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnokxyjel22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mnjzejowms26AI wouldn’t have locked us down. Not like 2020. It would have made the uncertainty visible and made it harder for a guess to be sold as a verdict. My column in this week’s Yorkshire Post. More in TheSundaySugnal.ai05 Jun 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnjzejowms26https://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mn5gd4o2cc2lFirst they deindustrialised the North. Now it is the office's turn A FTSE bank just described 7800 of staff as "lower-value human capital" White-collar work is the new coalfield, and the algorithm doing the cutting will not apologise the way the boss did on Friday https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-floor-is-moving?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web31 May 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5gd4o2cc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mmy35hx4ik2dThe next redundancy programme may not come from a manager. It may come from a software update. My @yorkshirepost.co.uk column today asks what happens when capital moves from payroll to compute, and whether we’re ready for the consequences.29 May 2026 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmy35hx4ik2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mmle2pxk7s2uhttps://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/light-the-grid-and-the-british-company?r=4hkhi&utm_medium=ios24 May 2026 06:38 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmle2pxk7s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mmldyzzjsc2uhttps://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-full-sunday-signal-interview?r=4hkhi&utm_medium=ios24 May 2026 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmldyzzjsc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mm7l7rerxk2eSunday Signal Mid-Week Flash. A 170-year-old bank is cutting ~7,800 roles. Its CEO calls it replacing "lower-value human capital". A British firm says AI's power wall is already broken: light, not electrons. Two stories. One machine. Full read Sunday. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-sunday-signal-mid-week-flash19 May 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7l7rerxk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mm7l6kfoqc2eThe Sunday Signal | Mid-Week Flash https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-sunday-signal-mid-week-flash?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web19 May 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7l6kfoqc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mm27tkc63s25Most founders use AI backwards. They start with prompts. They should start with context. This week's issue of The Sunday Signal is the fix. Founder OS: nine playbooks a technical founder can run instead of hiring a management layer. thesundaysignal.ai #AI #Startups #Founders #FutureOfWork17 May 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm27tkc63s25https://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mlidljdx3k2xMedicine has spent 100 years waiting for disease to appear. AI is about to change that. This week’s Sunday Signal is about the fifth wave of medicine: predictive, personalised and preventative biology. The FDA has moved first. The NHS cannot afford to wait. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-fifth-wave-when-medicine-stops?r=4hkhi&utm_medium=ios10 May 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlidljdx3k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3mkfahnu4h22bhttps://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-decision-has-already-been-made?r=4hkhi&utm_medium=ios26 Apr 2026 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfahnu4h22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3m625nmzi5c2aGoogle told the BBC this week that AI is too unreliable, so we should stick with search. Anthropic’s CEO said the opposite, warning that AI could wipe out half of all entry level white collar jobs. The BBC just held the microphone. 👉 Read & Subscribe: https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-sunday-signal-is-google-running?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true20 Nov 2025 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m625nmzi5c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3m2yy7hoges2fThe Sunday Signal: The Pitch, The Discipline, and The Deloitte Debacle https://newsletter.djr.ai/p/the-sunday-signal-the-pitch-the-discipline?r=4hkhi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false12 Oct 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2yy7hoges2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lzdmxzs7522z🚨𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬.⁣🚨 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤’𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬: 🇬🇧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 — how pension fund managers are failing us all 🌉 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨’𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞? the AI toolkit that changes everything https://open.substack.com/pub/davidjrichards/p/the-sunday-signal-britain-invents?r=4hkhi&utm_medium=ios21 Sep 2025 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzdmxzs7522zhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lpytunrk4c2gSunderland’s promotion wasn’t meant to happen. 15th in wage bill, no parachute cash—just fearless football and belief. A glitch in the matrix. I unpack it in today’s Sunday Signal. 🔗 lnkd.in/esttJkCj25 May 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpytunrk4c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lplq4424jc2d“𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵.” — Elon Musk, in a 2015 email on OpenAI’s first day. Still one of the clearest hiring philosophies: spot the spark early and bet on it hard. I write about ideas like this in The Sunday Signal: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=731904091479703142420 May 2025 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lplq4424jc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lpjegeqrsk2aI never met my great-grandparents Eli & Lily, or my grandmother. But this week, AI brought them to life — not as history, but as people. Colourising old family photos didn’t just enhance them. It changed everything. 🖼️ Read: https://www.djr.ai/post/ai-memory-and-four-generations-in-colour-when-technology-brings-history-to-life 📬 Subscribe: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=731904091479703142419 May 2025 10:28 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjegeqrsk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lpgsqyshas2c𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆’𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 — 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲. This week’s Sunday Signal started with a colourised photo of a 19th-century train crash… and ended with me seeing my great-great-grandparents — Eli and Lily Richards — clearly for the first time. https://djr.kit.com/posts/sunday-signal-5-colour-trust-the-machines-that-code18 May 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpgsqyshas2chttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lpf7xh4b3k2sWill we ever see this again (in my lifetime) #swfc17 May 2025 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpf7xh4b3k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/djrai.bsky.social/post/3lbdl6gkiau2t#NortherLights #Sheffield19 Nov 2024 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:pp6zpgokemmskgnsuym4d35n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbdl6gkiau2t