Alex Pigman
@alexrpigman.bsky.social
Tech reporter at AFP in Washington DC, ex Brussels and Paris Signal: alexrp.99
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Tech and AI Reporter, San Francisco – Agence France-Presse – Permanent contract in San Francisco
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Malaysia has frozen the development of new data centres not used for artificial intelligence over power and water concerns, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told parliament @en.afp.com .
This headline feels very December 2022, which is a problem when we’re 100s of billions of dollars in investments later.
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure
Yes there is the "TRAIN WRECK", but Trump's response to Musk's third party gambit is still pretty measured and Musk seems to know that.
❗️NEW: VDL appears to step back from her proposal to lower oil price cap: “In the last days, we’ve seen the price has risen so the oil price cap does serve its function…At the moment, there’s little pressure” on lowering it, she told AFP, EFE & me @ G7 + our Live: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...
Live: Updates From G-7 Summit
Live News as Leaders Meet at G7 Summit in Canada
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Five days after the Musk clash, Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks is alive and well and carrying out his official functions. He just spoke at the AWS summit in DC
Europe begins a long walk to a minimum age on social media law @afp.com
New push in Europe to curb children's social media use
From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day.It is currently investigating Meta's Facebook and Instagram, an...
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Redpanda's CEO and founder, @emaxerrno.bsky.social, recently took Centre Stage at @websummit.bsky.social Vancouver with David Shim and @alexrpigman.bsky.social to dissect the age of #AI agents. 🤖 They dove deep into defining agents, tackling #data infrastructure hurdles, & the enterprise impact. 🧠
Alex Gallego | Web Summit Vancouver Talk: The age of agents
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Seriously build some fucking houses blue states.
David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · last yr.While NIMBYism rules in some blue states, South Carolina has added 177,000 homes since 2020. This is a broader problem with national political implications if some of these Democratic states don't get over their NIMBYism. www.postandcourier.com/business/rea...
Ad spot this morning on a local DC radio station extolling the virtues of glyphosate.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.A White House report released by President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday raises concerns about the potential health effects of some pesticides on American children, but it stopped short of calling them unsafe. Here's what the science says about the risks.
You know who pointed me to learn what I could about Cardinal Prevost? The @chicago.suntimes.com Robert Herguth, who knows all the things. chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...
From Chicago's south suburbs to helping choose the next pope
Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South Side church. "Even as a young teenager, he knew what he wanted to do and wh...
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Related/unrelated: Would the British be more welcoming than Canadians of becoming 51st state?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last yr.🔴 UK & US are close to a trade agreement, the pact set to be signed this week, and would lower UK steel and car export tariffs - FT.
The EU’s much hated GDPR doing to TikTok what the divest or get banned law in the U.S. can’t quite seem to do.
Finbarr Bermingham@fbermingham.bsky.social · last yr.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-...
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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It's not clear to me why like-minded elites engaging in a robust back-channel via messaging is inherently novel www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
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he 39-year-old Russian icon smashed in a long-range shot with 12:34 remaining in the second period to spark wild celebrations at the UBS Arena.
Ovechkin Scores 895th Goal To Clinch All-Time NHL Record - The Moscow Times
Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th NHL career goal on Sunday, etching his name into ice hockey history by finally passing the previous all-time record he shared with Wayne Gretzky.
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dems should have pranked corey booker and formed a long line to the bathroom
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2y agoOne of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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 agoFor 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"
American eggs are *almost* as expensive as French eggs and they've already gone mental
Emma Vigeland@emmavigeland.bsky.social · 2y agoUS eggs prices hit a record high of $4.95 and are likely to keep climbing "The average price of a dozen Grade A eggs in U.S. cities reached $4.95 in January... more than double the low of $2.04 that was recorded in August 2023." apnews.com/article/egg-...
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.
If Thierry Breton, former EU scourge of big tech, was a social media, he'd be X. His successor Henna Virkkunen? LinkedIn. No question.
