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David Richards MBE
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Empowering AI Startups | Co-Founder @ Yorkshire AI Labs | Democratising VC | MBE | Philanthropist & Tech Visionary Blog: http://www.djr.ai Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-sunday-signal-7319040914797031424
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🚨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

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The Sunday Signal: Britain Invents, America Invests
Essential insights on capital, cities, and the democratisation of startups Issue #23 – Sunday 21 September 2025
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Sunderland’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.
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“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:
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I 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.

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𝗔𝗜 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.

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Will we ever see this again (in my lifetime) #swfc