Alex Pigman

@alexrpigman.bsky.social

Tech reporter at AFP in Washington DC, ex Brussels and Paris Signal: alexrp.99

Breaking: Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting for the EU, fined TikTok a huge 530 million euro for failing to ensure European users' personal data is shielded from access by Chinese authorities TikTok admitted hosting European data in China www.barrons.com/news/tiktok-...

TikTok Fined 530 Mn Euros In EU Over China Data Transfer

Ireland's data protection watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU, fined TikTok a massive 530 million euros ($600 million) Friday for failing to ensure European users' personal data is shielded from acce...

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This —>“The secondary lesson here is that the more excited people are about LLMs, the more I wonder how carefully they have examined the output.” AI hype is a devil’s handshake between CEOs too busy to care too much and the department delivering the goods. The band must play on.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y ago

For those that disagree with me on AI, this article does a good job explaining your position and why he thinks you are right open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

hakeem jeffries' wife packing up to go stay at her parents because she asked him to wash the dishes and he stood in front of the sink throwing his hands in the air and saying "what can i do, the water isn't even on"

One echo from history when it comes to Elon Musk's DOGE and its outsize role in government would be the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution, when the group of 12 men led by Robespierre, nominally a parliamentary body, ran the country.

The US dominance of tech has always been implicit, even under Trump 1.0, which suited the giants well as they could slip into world pretty much as nation-less utilities quietly disrupting society. J.D. Vance's speech at the AI summit in Paris changes all that. ChatGPT is America.

Taking down USAID is an ideal target for a government pursuing a far-right agenda. Its beneficiaries are non-American and, except for Ukraine, people of color. For Ukraine, helping the weaker side makes no sense when the strong man is always right.