Britain has a habit it cannot break. We invent the future, then we sell it to people who understand its value better than we do. This week a select committee told ministers to remove Palantir from the NHS, and the company's British boss spent the days that followed defending the contract like the politician he is. In this issue, David Richards MBE asks who really owns the most valuable dataset in the world, and whether we are about to repeat with our health records the mistake we made with DeepMind.

In this episode:

The £10 billion goldmine. Why Palantir hired a Westminster networker rather than an engineer, the holes in Louis Mosley's Telegraph defence, the Nick Clegg parallel, and the National Grid precedent for ripping foreign technology out of critical infrastructure. Plus the close that ties it together: how Britain built DeepMind, sold it to Google for around £400m, and handed Silicon Valley the very capability it feared.

• The 17-year itch. David's Digital Forge conversation with Richard Stubbs of Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber on why proven NHS technology takes an average of seventeen years to reach patients, why there are "more pilots than British Airways," and the safety question nobody dares ask.

• Would AI have locked us down? David's Yorkshire Post column on the Imperial model, the statistics watchdog's rebuke of the Covid Inquiry, and what AI-assisted models would actually tell a minister to do today.

• The layoff tracker, Week 23: US tech's heaviest month of cuts in nearly two years, and the mechanics of AI laundering.

• Read the full issue, with every source and link, free at Https://TheSundaySignal.ai

Sources this week include: the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report; Louis Mosley's op-ed in the Telegraph; reporting from Reuters, the Financial Times and Challenger, Gray and Christmas; Ernst and Young's valuation of NHS data; and trial exhibits from Musk v OpenAI and The DigitalForge Podcast