Alex Pigman's Avatar

Alex Pigman

@alexrpigman

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

1,879
Followers
482
Following
63
Posts
01.09.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Alex Pigman @alexrpigman

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 .

24.02.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This headline feels very December 2022, which is a problem when we’re 100s of billions of dollars in investments later.

31.08.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

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.

07.07.2025 19:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Live: Updates From G-7 Summit Live News as Leaders Meet at G7 Summit in Canada

❗️NEW: VDL appears to step back from her proposal to lower oil price cap: β€œIn 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...

17.06.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

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

10.06.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
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...

Europe begins a long walk to a minimum age on social media law @afp.com

06.06.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Alex Gallego | Web Summit Vancouver Talk: The age of agents
Alex Gallego | Web Summit Vancouver Talk: The age of agents YouTube video by Redpanda Data

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. πŸ€–

They dove deep into defining agents, tackling #data infrastructure hurdles, & the enterprise impact. 🧠

05.06.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

21st century Elvis…

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

31.05.2025 04:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seriously build some fucking houses blue states.

25.05.2025 00:43 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Ad spot this morning on a local DC radio station extolling the virtues of glyphosate.

22.05.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes β€˜against local law’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

08.05.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
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...

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...

08.05.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Related/unrelated: Would the British be more welcoming than Canadians of becoming 51st state?

06.05.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image File photo shows the logo of Chinese social networking service TikTok's on a smartphone screen

File photo shows the logo of Chinese social networking service TikTok's on a smartphone screen

#BREAKING TikTok fined 530 million euros ($600 million) over China data transfer: EU watchdog

02.05.2025 10:21 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

02.05.2025 10:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
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...

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-...

02.05.2025 10:19 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
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.

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...

28.04.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's the government bond market--particularly, how close it gets to the line that separates wild price volatility from market malfunctioning.

#economy #markets

09.04.2025 18:29 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
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.

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.

06.04.2025 20:17 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The early April crash could in part be due to later Easter break this year? Next couple of weeks will be better indicator maybe?

06.04.2025 02:42 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

dems should have pranked corey booker and formed a long line to the bathroom

02.04.2025 00:11 πŸ‘ 4412 πŸ” 256 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 14

wfh Friday is Doge proof

21.03.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

23.02.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 24491 πŸ” 3652 πŸ’¬ 427 πŸ“Œ 113

This β€”>β€œThe 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.

20.02.2025 01:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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"

14.02.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 13323 πŸ” 2037 πŸ’¬ 201 πŸ“Œ 91

American eggs are *almost* as expensive as French eggs and they've already gone mental

13.02.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

12.02.2025 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Voting by fax may as well be in the constitution

11.02.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

11.02.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0