Alex Pigman

🇺🇸 What’s it like getting Donald Trump on the phone? AFP’s White House Correspondent Danny Kemp called US President Donald Trump minutes after a cease-fire with Iran was announced. He describes what it’s like calling the person often called the most powerful man in the world.

AFP is looking to build its reporting team covering AI and tech. Whether you're an English-language reporter already on the ground or joining from afar, this is a real opportunity to tell the Silicon Valley story to the world. welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/a…

Seeking solid news reporter to bring the AI story to the world from San Francisco

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! DM me! welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/a…

@TheStalwart Jacques Derrida knew this

The fact that one can get an LLM to put together a cogent-sounding argument in favor of virtually any position has left me feeling cynical about human debate and discourse. That it’s (almost) all a game wholly sealed inside language itself without tether to the world.

@VVFriedman Meanwhile KGM, the plaintiff in the social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, has just taken the stand, about a week after Zuckerberg faced the jury

Surprise guests at Prada

SCOOP: Mark Hamer, deputy assistant attorney general at DOJ's Antitrust Division, is leaving to rejoin law firm Baker McKenzie. Today is his last day after being in the job less than one year. @JusticeATR content.mlex.com/#/content/1712…

Judge Mehta just waived off all Google audience Qs at Fordham antitrust conference, incl: What does he make of Google announcing Gemini integration into Chrome, Did he change is mind about liability, a Q about absence of consequences for Google destroying docs & evading discovery

UPDATE in US v Google search case. Judge Mehta will be issuing his remedy order any day now, but just asked Google to provide additional briefing on term limits in browser/OEM agreements.

Redpanda's CEO and founder, @emaxerrno, recently took Centre Stage at @WebSummit Vancouver with @davidshim and @AlexRPigman to dissect the age of #AI agents. 🤖 They dove deep into defining agents, tackling #data infrastructure hurdles, and the enterprise impact. 🧠 A key takeaway from Alex: current enterprise systems often lack the 'ultra-fine-grain' permissions essential for agent-driven futures. It's a challenge that is keeping CTOs up at night - but one that Redpanda is actively working to solve. Watch the full session ▶️ youtu.be/nsfUzcYSU0s

“Top Secret”

@kyliebytes this helps me: tariffs always ends in FFS

one R, two Fs, not two Rs two Fs. important to know at the moment

"It's extremely important when watching inflation to take a through line, not follow every blip up and down," @ChicagoFed President Austan Goolsbee told @AFP earlier today. "In my mind, overall, the conditions have not changed." france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Let's set the record straight—DeepSeek R1 is another digital arm of the Chinese Communist Party. The AI algorithm censors any critique of the Party and President Xi. Leave it to China to continue its notorious propaganda machine in the digital age. wsj.com/tech/ai/china-…

Stepping out of court at US v. Google for a quick update that was too crazy not to post. After 4 hours and 35 minutes (!) of direct examination of Google expert Mark Israel by Google lawyer Bill Isaacson, cross examination began.

Summer NON-Reading list. Here are the books I took with me on holidays and didn’t read. I can recommend them all if you need to fill out empty space in your bags. 1/ Everyone seemed to be called ‘Aethel-something.’ I got interrupted by a game of frisbee with son.

Twelve years on… it’s Mario Draghi “whatever it takes” day, made at the London Olympics investment conference… a model of the power of a central banker with credibility facing down significant market pressure… unscripted, one of the most important speeches this century…