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Alex Pigman

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

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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
SAN FRANCISCO JOB ALERT --> AFP is recruiting a tech and AI reporter in San Francisco. Come tell one of the world's most important stories for a global news agency! www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies...
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Tech and AI Reporter, San Francisco – Agence France-Presse – Permanent contract in San Francisco
Agence France-Presse is looking for a Tech and AI Reporter, San Francisco in San Francisco!
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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 .
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This headline feels very December 2022, which is a problem when we’re 100s of billions of dollars in investments later.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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.
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Jorge Valero @europressos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
❗️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...
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Live: Updates From G-7 Summit
Live News as Leaders Meet at G7 Summit in Canada
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Europe begins a long walk to a minimum age on social media law @afp.com
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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 @redpanda.com · 05/06/2025
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. 🧠
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Alex Gallego | Web Summit Vancouver Talk: The age of agents
YouTube video by Redpanda Data
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
21st century Elvis… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Seriously build some fucking houses blue states.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Ad spot this morning on a local DC radio station extolling the virtues of glyphosate.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict
Company referred to policy for restricting content when governments say material goes ‘against local law’
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Lauren FitzPatrick @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
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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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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Related/unrelated: Would the British be more welcoming than Canadians of becoming 51st state?
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 02/05/2025
#BREAKING TikTok fined 530 million euros ($600 million) over China data transfer: EU watchdog
File photo shows the logo of Chinese social networking service TikTok's on a smartphone screen
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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-...
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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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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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...
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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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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's the government bond market--particularly, how close it gets to the line that separates wild price volatility from market malfunctioning. #economy #markets
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 06/04/2025
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.
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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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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
dems should have pranked corey booker and formed a long line to the bathroom
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2025
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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.
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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"
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Dave Clark @daveclarkreports.eurosky.social · 13/02/2025
American eggs are *almost* as expensive as French eggs and they've already gone mental
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If Thierry Breton, former EU scourge of big tech, was a social media, he'd be X. His successor Henna Virkkunen? LinkedIn. No question.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Picked the wrong day to...
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The "buddy-in-chief" is taking the EU to court for being mean to China. www.barrons.com/news/tesla-b...
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Tesla, BMW Take EU To Court Over China EV Tariffs
Elon Musk's Tesla and German auto giant BMW have challenged EU import tariffs on China-made electric vehicles at the bloc's top court, the European Commission said Monday.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Everyone’s in town.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
TikTok most likely flipped the switch because Apple, Google and Oracle weren’t satisfied with any of the assurances coming from the Biden administration. TikTok on Friday asked the WH to provide something more solid and they obviously did not.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hard to overstate how thoroughly played the Biden admin and the Dems were on all of this. No one, at this point, remembers that all of this started as a Trump executive order in 2020. All that will be remembered is that the Democrats couldn't — or wouldn't — save TikTok.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Bannon-Musk feud? Looks like these guys will find a way to get along…
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What if the US becomes a right-wing approved "free speech" nirvana as the rest of the world watches? Meta insists that new policies on fact-checking are only for the US "where we will test and refine Community Notes before beginning any expansion to other countries." www.barrons.com/news/meta-no...
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Meta Not Ending Fact-checks Outside US Yet, Fails To Appease Brazil
Meta told Brazil it would not yet end fact-checks outside the US, but its attempts to clarify its new social media policies fell flat Tuesday as the Latin American nation slammed measures which promot...
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Amazon is struggling to upgrade Alexa to generative AI. Don’t think I’ve read a more bearish article on AI rollout. And Amazon is on the record too. on.ft.com/4jhqiKQ
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Amazon races to transplant Alexa’s ‘brain’ with generative AI
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group toils to overcome technical hurdles
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
News from the MAGA cave: Bannon calls for revolt against Thiel, Sacks and Musk because they’re South African racists. He wants Musk banned from the White House.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Processing Mark Zuckerberg’s great u-turn. Trying to understand what happened requires the parsing of biography and the cultural moment, but the fact that someone whose business is so beholden to the widest swath of society and takes such an unmitigated step in one political direction
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10/01/2025
NEW: Firefighters from Mexico are en route to the #EatonFire — joining more than 10,000 personnel already on the ground. California is deeply grateful for President @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social's support as we work to suppress the Los Angeles wildfires.
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Diego Velazquez @diegoinbxl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The commission's political strategy should be clear by now: Do not say anything remotely critical towards Trump/Musk, no matter what they say or do.
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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 07/01/2025
French media Le Monde reports that EC President Ursula von der Leyen “has decided to put on hold the ongoing investigations against Meta, X, and Apple (…) and not to open any new cases.” www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Face à Elon Musk et ses ingérences, les Européens désunis
Alors que le président français, Emmanuel Macron, accuse le patron de X de soutenir « une nouvelle internationale réactionnaire », la présidente de la Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, est jusqu’ici r...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 07/01/2025
Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company’s decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the US
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Zuckerberg Wears $900,000 Watch to Announce End of Meta Fact Checks
The ‘Hand Made 1’ takes hundreds of hours to assemble.
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claire de lune @clairempls.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
showing up in washington square park in the rain to play chess against randos is exactly the level of psycho competitor meets sensei that it takes to be the best player on earth. i’m moved
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Big cross party pushback in Germany against Musk’s meddling in national politics and backing of a far right party. There is little precedent in west European politics of a foreign multi-billionaire buying his way into the political system…
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Emptying your checking account to bet on on just about anything is only a click away. Living off a salary is for chumps. This is all fine. apple.news/AtnGpBgfAQJC...
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More Men Are Addicted to the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the Stock Market — The Wall Street Journal
Gamblers Anonymous meetings are filling up with people hooked on trading and betting. Apps make it as easy as ordering takeout.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Maybe a bit cultish, but these SpaceXers are first in line for Mars.
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Elon Musk Is Creating His Own Texas Town. Hundreds Already Live There.
Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.
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Alex Pigman @alexrpigman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
With no magic wand that makes it all better, big corporations are seizing the political moment and turning down the dial on climate change targets.
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