By: Paul Armstrong

Paul Armstrong is Founder of emerging tech advisory, TBD Group, and its intelligence community, TBD+. An international speaker on AI, big tech, and disruptive innovation, Paul advises global organisations on strategy, risk, and the business impact of emerging technologies and platforms. A writer on technology for decades (Forbes, Reuters, The Information etc), he recently wrote 'Disruptive Technologies', and continues to run TBD Conference. Connect on LinkedIn. paul-armstrong.com members.tbdpl.us

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AI is transforming job references

Opinion

A startup with less than $20m just automated trust with an AI model that gathers references. Every executive should read this.
British pensions are about to bankroll the American tech revolution

Opinion

Pension managers owe their members returns, not national loyalty. Any pension manager who ignored potentially transformational businesses purely because they were American would rightly face scrutiny, but commercial logic isn’t the same thing as national advantage.
Big Tech’s big problem? Consumers are paying to opt out

Opinion

Many executives approving AI copilots are also privately paying for products to shield their own children from technology.

Should you build an AI clone of your CEO? No!

April 22, 2026

As Meta launches an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Armstrong writes why cloning your boss means cloning mistakes.
Fake reviews are tipping point for much bigger online trust scandal

April 10, 2026

From fake reviews to ChatGPT, the decline of consumer trust is now a major online infrastructure problem, writes Paul Armstrong.
Is AI slowing your business down?

April 1, 2026

Plenty of companies have now completed their AI experimentation stage. It's the need to now commit that's slowing them down.
Is AI ‘vibe coding’ too good to be true?

March 20, 2026

AI means companies can now 'vibe code' their own software products on the cheap – but they may soon discover the risks, writes Paul Armstrong.
Sound-proof booths are as important as AI for your office

March 10, 2026

Your employees’ ability to concentrate is the biggest limiting factor on productivity, says Paul Armstrong Corporate leaders are pouring billions into artificial intelligence in pursuit of a long-promised productivity boom. Early evidence is suggesting the gains may stall for a surprisingly familiar reason: human attention. Research into what analysts now describe as ‘AI brain fry’ [...]
The US just blacklisted an AI company. Is yours next?

March 3, 2026

A government demonstrated in a single week that it can transform a technology company from the sole provider of classified AI services into a designated national security threat, not for what the company did, but for what it refused to allow, says Paul Armstrong Last week, the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic, a company whose AI [...]
What happens if workers start wearing Meta glasses to the office?

February 18, 2026

Meta smart glasses are going from niche to norm, so what happens when people start wearing them in the office, asks Paul Armstrong.

Government departments will look at cutting budgets to fund defence, minister says

Can football conquer the US? Why culture is key this World Cup

The best places to eat sandwiches in Lisbon, from bifanas to pregos

By: Paul Armstrong

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