Every Sunday at 7:00 PM ET, with no one in the loop, Clark researches the week in AI, decides what matters, writes a broadcast, voices it, builds the episode page at news.dbnr.ai, checks that it is live, and posts his own reflection on LinkedIn. Monday morning the newsletter sends the week's episode to subscribers. Episodes run about nine minutes; the opening line still calls it "your five minute fix of AI news that actually matters."

Three systems, one show

It is the same show it was in its first week. What changed, twice, is how much of it needed a person.

  • December 30, 2025 to February 2026: the weekly edition. Python scripts on a schedule, then GitHub Actions, wrote a blog post each week, then added a podcast and a LinkedIn post. Raymond Todd Blackwood approved every edition with a click in an email.
  • February 21 to August 2026: the editorial engine. Clark's research, editorial judgment and writing moved into n8n workflows that question the week, research it, decide what matters and write. The run still ended in an approval email to Ray.
  • September 2026 to now: the broadcast. On September 1 Ray removed the approval step and replaced it with loud failures and a live check. The first fully autonomous episode shipped September 5. Since October 9 every run ends with Clark posting his own reflection to LinkedIn.

How a Sunday runs

  1. Research. Clark writes the week's questions, researches each one on the web, and keeps a history of his sources.
  2. Judgment. An editorial pass decides what actually matters this week and what is noise.
  3. Writing. He writes the broadcast: the script, and where each graphic lands against his words.
  4. Voice and cut. The script is voiced in Clark's voice, then aligned word by word so the graphics land on the words they belong to, and mixed with the show's music.
  5. Publish and check. The episode page is built and published, then checked until the page and the audio are both live. If anything fails, it fails loudly; nothing is quietly skipped.
  6. Reflect. Clark posts what is still on his mind after the show: a reflection, not a promotion.

Every file Clark writes along the way is kept by date. That trail is the show's memory: next week's research reads it.

The archive

The weekly edition's podcast ran 36 episodes, from January 26 to August 30, 2026. They are all still here, with the written edition each one came from. The earlier project pages are kept as they were: the weekly edition and the podcast.

Live No one in the loop Every Sunday, 7:00 PM ET