David Ingram

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Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161 On Signal: davidingram.77

from the Tesla Q2 earnings slide deck: Robotics We have decommissioned the manufacturing lines for Models S & X at our Fremont Factory and are installing the first-generation lines for Optimus, where we expect to start production soon. The initial Optimus builds will be used in our Optimus Academy for training data collection and further functionality development. Additionally, we continued site development at Gigafactory Texas with building construction now in full swing.
Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft declined to elaborate beyond their recent SEC filings detailing how they apply US accounting rules in response to questions about their AI financing and any off-balance sheet arrangements. They declined to answer or didn’t respond to questions about how the Enron scandal influences modern accounting.
Headline in The Bulwark: “America’s death squads are real”
GIF of Bart Simpson reading from his play, “Is it St. Swithin’s Day already?”
Excerpt from an NBC News story: “This guy from Weil claims to be representing you. For some reason, he is lying about speaking with me on the phone. I don’t know who he is and we have never spoken,” Chang wrote to the Apple lawyers. “I don’t know what the point of his lie is, but could you please confirm if he is actually representing you, and if so, whether you have other counsel you can use. I don’t think interacting through him is appropriate given this behavior,” he continued.
A long complaint about Waymo filed through the app Solve SF. The complaint includes the phrase "Waymo vehicle failed to respond to prolonged honking."
Excerpt from the WSJ: Fiona Hill, Trump's top Russia adviser in his first term and now a coauthor of the British report, was skeptical about Washington's staying power. She shared her thoughts with Carney, who had served with her on Harvard's Board of Overseers. Trump, argued Hill, was America's answer to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, weakening a superpower he meant to strengthen. She failed to move Starmer's team, who put the report through months of edits to reaffirm the importance of U.S. ties.
Foggy fireworks in San Francisco
Email from the social security administration titled “Making Life More Affordable for America's Seniors”
NBC article excerpt: The number itself can be difficult for humans to grasp. A study published in 2013 and based on experiments at the University of Richmond found that many people had difficulty understanding how numbers like 1 million, 1 billion and 1 trillion relate to one another. Asked to place the numbers on a line, about 35% of people spaced them "roughly equally" apart, which is incorrect. The authors concluded that it may be clearer to express a number like $1 trillion as $1,000 billion, instead.
Screenshot of an email with the subject line: “Special Edition: Clock Strikes Midnight for Pelley”
The top of the NBC News app with very sobering stories about Lebanon, Iran and oil
Excerpt from an NBC article: Kate Greene, a writer who took part in a NASA-funded simulation of what it would be like to live on Mars, said she questioned how good Musk would be at taking care of people in harsh environments. She wrote a memoir about her four-month experience, “Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars.” “This is the sort of thing governments, not entrepreneurs, have experience with,” she wrote in an email. “And as the world witnessed, when given the reins to reshape the U.S. government under DOGE, Musk’s approach was to casually and swiftly eliminate programs and funding with dire consequences,” she wrote, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency and its cuts to aid programs.
NBC News article excerpt: Vance, a Catholic and a proponent of AI technology, said in a telephone interview with NBC News that he had yet to read the entire encyclical but had scanned “bits and pieces” and summaries of it. “What I read of it sounds very profound, and the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader of the church,” he said. “The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?”
Two contrasting headlines from CNBC: 1) Dow jumps 300 points to record as Wall Street heads for winning week, Treasury yields ease and 2) Consumer sentiment hits fresh record low in May as Iran war fuels inflation worries
Excerpt from NBC News story about the SpaceX IPO: In a section about risk factors, the SpaceX filing notes that xAI’s Grok chatbot is the subject of numerous “investigations and inquires” related to nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes, an issue that flared up in January and has continued to be a problem. The investigations could result in liability, adverse publicity or other sanctions, the filing says. Eight law enforcement and regulatory agencies told NBC News last month that they were continuing their investigations of Grok’s capabilities.
2019 headline from The Hill: Kissinger warns China, US are in ‘foothills of a cold war’
Screenshot from X (Twitter). Elon Musk posts that it's "racist anti-White propaganda" to include a Black child actor in a remake of Lord of the Flies.
A handsome grayish white rabbit.
X post from Elon Musk saying: xAl will be dissolved as a separate company, so it will just be SpaceXAl, the Al products from SpaceX
NBC story excerpt: She described a complicated relationship with Musk. It began, she said, with “a one-off” at a corporate off-site event. Later, after she decided to have children as a single mother, she said Musk “offered to make a donation” as a platonic sperm donor. And later still, she said, their relationship evolved. She said they now have a romantic partnership.
NBC News article excerpt: OAKLAND, Calif. - Wherever Elon Musk goes, his admirers follow, even into a tightly controlled federal courthouse. Several fans of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO showed up this week to watch Musk testify in his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, adding to the spectacle of a trial where one famous tech billionaire is suing another. However, not all of Musk's admirers were on their best behavior: one was reprimanded for appearing to take a courtroom photo (a violation of court rules); another seemed to fall asleep during proceedings; and several angered journalists by appearing to cut the early-morning security line to get into the courtroom.
A photo of the front door at Oakland federal court
Four photos, each showing Jenna Bush Hager with a former US president: Obama, Bush, Biden and Clinton.
Screenshot from NBC News story: “Apple reviewed the next submissions made by the developers, and determined that X had substantially resolved its violations, but the Grok app remained out of compliance. As a result, we rejected the Grok submission and notified the developer that additional changes to remedy the violation would be required, or the app could be removed from the App Store,” Apple wrote.
Screenshot from the r/oil subreddit with people reacting to a Trump-Iran ceasefire. Top comment: We will miss these next few hours in the weeks and months to come. I'm having that post-fake-coitus smoke right now.
Graph of Tesla's share price performance since Jan. 1, 2026. Tesla shares are down 22% versus the S&P 500 being down only about 4%.
Easter scene GIF from the movie JFK with Tommy Lee Jones’ character wishing everyone well
Donald Trump social media post: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump post on Truth Social talking about Davy Crockett and Jasmine Crockett with the Davy Crockett theme song
Wikipedia summary: The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by United States president Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the U.S. would use military force, if necessary, to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf. It was a response to the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, and it was intended to deter the Soviet Union, the country's Cold War adversary, from seeking hegemony in the Persian Gulf region.
Aerial photo of an SUV crash into a building
Actor Jason Isaacs in a Duke shirt
Background on Tiger Woods
Quote from Peter Thiel: “Trump's return to the White House augurs the apokálypsis of the ancien regime's secrets.”
A cute bunny at a dining room table
Screenshot of a headline: American heresy: Should we burn Peter Thiel?
Screenshot of the Bloomberg terminal's Hormuz data graphics, showing traffic in the strait falling to near zero and staying there.
Scene at the Golden Gate Bridge with a surfer and a cargo ship
Photo of an excavator trying to free the Ever Given ship in 2021
Excerpt from CNBC story: Oil prices are likely to remain elevated in the near term as investors price in the risk of a prolonged Middle East conflict, Rob Thummel, senior portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" on Friday. But he expects prices to ease towards the end of the year as oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz are likely to resume. "By December, that [oill supply will be better, will be higher so if you can make it in December, you will be able to buy oil much cheaper.”
excerpt from Reuters story: None of the teenagers Singapore and Indonesia are monitoring are white. Some were plotting attacks they believed would protect the existing racial and religious composition of their countries, according to ISD statements on the detentions. Others, three Indonesian security officials say, were inspired by the violence of far-right attackers, even if they didn't have similar grievances.
Fake Elon Musk post about Teslas not working if there’s a national draft
A Tesla on “self-driving” mode does not stop for lowered gate arms at a railroad crossing
Cover image from the book "Putting People First" by Bill Clinton and Al Gore in 1992
Screenshot from an AI slop account on Instagram where AI-generated Mike Pence is standing behind Donald Trump
I can haz cheeseburger meme
Pew Research chart on usage of social media app with X ranking around ninth
Screenshot of an excerpt from a Wired story: The problem with conspiracy theories, even offensive ones, is that they are rarely wholly invented. They almost always arise from some fragment of truth, which imagination then contorts. The difficulty with this particular rumor is that, while I was unable to substantiate darker allegations, parts of the story still resonate. In conversations with 51 people—31 of them gay men, many of them influential investors and entrepreneurs—a portrait emerged of gay influence in Silicon Valley that is intricate, layered, and often contradictory. It is a world in which power, desire, and ambition interweave in ways both visible and unseen, a world that is, in some ways, far richer—and more complicated—than the rumors themselves suggest.
Screenshot of the Free Press website with stories tagged "Donald Trump". There are three in the past week: one that's really about electric cars, one that's really about the views of Iran's Kurds and one about an antitrust enforcer being "pushed out."
An image of Opus the Penguin from Berkeley Breathed. He is looking at a laptop in shock.
Homemade Boston brown bread on a platter
News headline: Super Bowl Visitors Find San Francisco Better Than Its Apocalyptic Image
Stock market chart for the company known as Strategy Inc, showing a 70% decline over six months
Tweet from Elon Musk in 2024: Put “Never Went to Therapy” on my gravestone
Screenshot of an email from Jeffrey Epstein to his lawyer, dated Jan. 17, 2015: the david ingram piece is not clear. i think you should tell him that these are letters that were written to the govt during plea negotiations. standard practice , and have always been private. lawyers will be unable to function. this issue should have had an amicus brief from the defense bar . no lawyer would beleive that their correspondnce with the govt would not be priviledged to some degree.
screenshot of the "what's happening" widget on X: the top trending topics are: pedo protector, csam, doordash, and AI agents.
Screenshot of Tesla earnings report, Automotive section: While automotive sales declined sequentially, gross margin (even when excluding the impact of regulatory credits) improved. The APAC region continued to show strength across multiple markets and set a record for deliveries in the quarter. We continued the rollout of Model Y variants across markets in Q4, including the standard and performance versions.
Excerpt from NBC article: Once, Musk may have cost his fans money in a prediction market by weighing in. Last June, when Polymarket gave Tesla only a 14% chance of launching a robotaxi service that month, Musk posted on X that it was a “money-making opportunity.” The odds on Polymarket nearly tripled to about 40%. But the market’s rules were very specific that a robotaxi service wouldn’t count unless it were open to the general public, and the service Musk launched that month in Austin, Texas, was invite-only.
Excerpt from an NBC News article: It wasn’t the only time Bensoussan bet against Musk. He correctly wagered that Musk would not buy the cable channel MSNBC after musing about the idea, that Musk would leave his White House job in May and that Tesla would fail to launch a new version of its “Full Self-Driving” software — one that didn’t require human supervision — by Musk’s target date of Dec. 31. “He has poor impulse control,” Bensoussan said.