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Jim Pickard

@pickardje
33 posts
2026-01-30
pass the tiny violin:  —  Tesla's annual revenue declined for the first time in 2025 as President Donald Trump's policies and a consumer backlash to chief executive Elon Musk's political activism weighed on its sales of electric cars.  —  www.ft.com/content/78d5...
2026-01-30 View on X
Financial Times

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI

2026-01-29
pass the tiny violin:  —  Tesla's annual revenue declined for the first time in 2025 as President Donald Trump's policies and a consumer backlash to chief executive Elon Musk's political activism weighed on its sales of electric cars.  —  www.ft.com/content/78d5...
2026-01-29 View on X
Financial Times

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI

Elon Musk's electric-car maker invests $2bn in the billionaire's xAI  —  Tesla plans to scrap two models and invest $2bn in Elon Musk's xAI …

pass the tiny violin:  —  Tesla's annual revenue declined for the first time in 2025 as President Donald Trump's policies and a consumer backlash to chief executive Elon Musk's political activism weighed on its sales of electric cars.  —  www.ft.com/content/78d5...
2026-01-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Tesla agrees to invest $2B in xAI for preferred shares as part of xAI's Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November 2025 that failed to win approval

Tesla Inc. reported fourth-quarter profit that surpassed expectations, showing the automaker is making progress toward overcoming rising costs …

pass the tiny violin:  —  Tesla's annual revenue declined for the first time in 2025 as President Donald Trump's policies and a consumer backlash to chief executive Elon Musk's political activism weighed on its sales of electric cars.  —  www.ft.com/content/78d5...
2026-01-29 View on X
Reuters

Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster public offering planned for later this year.

2025-11-06
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda  —  news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
2025-11-06 View on X
Sky News

Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism

“Elon Musk is a great leader,” says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally in August.

2025-10-16
According to a Financial Times investigation, the Trump business has already reaped more than $1bn in pre-tax profits over the past year, in part thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by the administration's own industry-friendly policies  —  www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
2025-10-16 View on X
Financial Times

Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is “probably more”

The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration's industry-friendly policies

2025-10-09
Starmer yesterday met the co-founder of Indian tech group Infosys - who set up India's controversial ID system - to try and learn lessons for the UK version  —  www.ft.com/content/ce22...
2025-10-09 View on X
Financial Times

During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program Aadhaar as a “massive success”, as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards

www.ft.com/content/ce22...

2025-04-28
Supply chain experts believe that an iPhone could cost as much as $3,500 if fully assembled in the US  —  ig.ft.com/us-iphone/
2025-04-28 View on X
Financial Times

A deep dive into Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, which uses ~2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China

The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America.  The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

2025-01-24
Elon Musk has posed as a champion of those poor bereaved families in Southport  —  but the killer watched a violent video just before his killing spree *on X*  —  and Musk is refusing to take it down despite numerous official requests from UK & Australian authorities  —  www.ft.com/content/3c89...
2025-01-24 View on X
Financial Times

X refuses to remove a video of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop watched by Axel Rudakubana minutes before murdering three kids in UK's Southport last summer

Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities

2025-01-22
exclusive: Ministers have forced out the chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, as the government seeks to dial back regulation as part of Labour's growth agenda https://www.ft.com/...
2025-01-22 View on X
Financial Times

UK CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink plans to leave the antitrust agency, forced out by UK ministers; the CMA appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair

Marcus Bokkerink replaced at CMA with government saying it wants pro-business decisions to drive prosperity and growth

2025-01-10
literally an attempt to subvert our democracy  —  www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
2025-01-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts

Votes of millions of people don't count.  —  Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination.  ...

literally an attempt to subvert our democracy  —  www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

2024-12-01
“Musk has been radicalised by his own platform,” said a British tech lobbyist, referring to the algorithms on X that have been feeding him content about British politics.  “I wouldn't underestimate the extent to which the trolling is peacocking for the rightwing bros.”  —  www.ft.com/content/987f...
2024-12-01 View on X
Financial Times

Some UK policymakers worry about Elon Musk complicating UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech

A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’ Bluesky: @edwardluce , @pickardje , and @bondhack X: @...

2023-07-17
well this is nuts https://www.ft.com/... [image]
2023-07-17 View on X
Financial Times

Millions of sensitive emails have been missent to Mali's .ML domain due to people mistyping the US military's .MIL domain; .ML control reverts to Mali July 17

Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali's internet domain

2023-07-10
The UK's banking and finance lobby group has written to Jeremy Hunt claiming that the social media sites of Facebook owner Meta are carrying more than half of digital payment scams suffered in Britain with @EmDunks https://www.ft.com/...
2023-07-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume passes through Meta's apps; ~£485M was stolen in 2022

2023-07-09
The UK's banking and finance lobby group has written to Jeremy Hunt claiming that the social media sites of Facebook owner Meta are carrying more than half of digital payment scams suffered in Britain with @EmDunks https://www.ft.com/...
2023-07-09 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022

UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud

2023-04-20
- FBI, Interpol, NCA accuse Meta of making “purposeful” decision to increase end-to-end encryption in way that “blindfolds” them to child sex abuse - comes as government pushes through “online safety bill” which tech groups warn could undermine privacy https://www.ft.com/...
2023-04-20 View on X
Financial Times

In a joint statement, the FBI, Interpol, and 13 other law enforcement agencies say Meta's plan to expand the use of E2EE in its apps “blindfolds” them to CSAM

2023-01-09
the UK government was forced to pay out £24m to Atos in an out-of-court settlement after the French IT group challenged the award of an £850mn contract to develop a supercomputer for forecasting weather and climate change to US rival Microsoft https://www.ft.com/...
2023-01-09 View on X
Financial Times

The UK will pay £24M to settle with French IT group Atos, which challenged awarding an £850M supercomputer contract to Microsoft to forecast weather and more

Financial Times :

2021-10-26
no Prime to die https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-26 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Amazon signs a contract with UK's GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 to host top-secret material, with data stored in the UK; the deal is worth £500M-£1B over a decade

Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears

2021-10-18
hard to find this anything other than sinister https://www.ft.com/...
2021-10-18 View on X
Financial Times

Nine UK schools to start taking payments for lunches by scanning students' faces, claiming that the system speeds up queues and is more COVID-safe

Cynthia O'Murchu / Financial Times :