Something has changed in my inbox. Over the last few weeks, AI software companies have started finding me, and not just the ones you read about. Governance tooling. AI training platforms. Document intelligence

In May, I wrote that AI is not a bubble. It is a soufflé. Not a tulip. Not a South Sea. Something stranger: a real shift in how the world works, financed in a way that cannot last. The rise is genuine.

Ask AI experts whether the technology will have a positive effect on how people do their jobs and 73% say yes. Ask the public the same question and 23% say yes. That is a gap of fifty points on the question

The UK tech sector is now worth $1.6 trillion (£1.2 trillion), and artificial intelligence accounts for roughly a third of it. Those are the headline figures from the Tech Nation Report 2026, launched

Four original AI research reports, one quarterly digest of AI harms, all free. Here is what each one asks and why I built them.

The benefits of AI so far - which might surprise you

Only 11% of organisations have scaled AI agents across the enterprise, as at H2 2026.

US sentiment on AI has hit -62.5, below Nixon at Watergate. Leaders must close the 50-point gap between experts and the public.

It's the end of the world as we know it. Co-created with DALL·E 3 AI There really is an AI singularity close-at-hand. But not quite the one you might have been expecting! Welcome to the curious hypothesis

What if Hallucination in AI was not a bug, but a feature? Machine Imagination? David Viney explores the evidence.

Considering the legal and rights implications of a self-conscious AI, plus the changes of approach and language we might need (in order to be ready for that)

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