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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Johnson and Cummings' secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Boris Johnson met privately with Peter Thiel in August 2019, a meeting omitted from public ministerial records while Palantir sought UK government contracts.
Venture
fromFortune
1 week ago

Peter Thiel is hosting 4 private sold-out lectures about the Antichrist at a club in San Francisco

Peter Thiel is delivering a four-part Antichrist lecture series that links his Christian faith with concerns about technology enabling authoritarian control.
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

RFK Jr. deputy Jim O'Neill chosen as acting CDC director

Trump's ousting of CDC Director Susan Monarez has led to a wave of resignations and a walkout at the agency's Atlanta facility on Thursday. Despite her firing, Monarez has refused to leave her post.
US politics
from24/7 Wall St.
4 weeks ago

Bullish (BLSH) Soars 83% on IPO: Is This Crypto Stock a Must-Buy?

Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, made a stellar debut, raising up to $629 million with an initial valuation of $4.2 billion, and secured an 83% surge on its IPO.
Cryptocurrency
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Peter Thiel's political hiatus is over. Here's where his money's flowing now.

Peter Thiel made his first political contribution in two and a half years, giving $852,200 to House Speaker Mike Johnson's joint fundraising committee, with most funds going to various GOP campaigns.
US politics
#hulk-hogan
Digital life
fromFortune
2 months ago

Peter Thiel is backing Palmer Luckey's Erebor digital bank, but that name has a dark history

Palmer Luckey is launching a digital bank named Erebor, backed by Peter Thiel, targeting startups and cryptocurrency companies.
fromFortune
2 months ago

Peter Thiel sold 20 million shares of Facebook, just months after its IPO-but they'd be worth nearly $15 billion more if he had held on

"I think investors always have a bias to invest in things they themselves use and they undervalue things they don't use so there aren't many investors who are in college."
Tech industry
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

AI isn't 'a nothing burger,' but won't end 'stagnation' in tech, says Peter Thiel

I still think we should be trying AI, and that the alternative is just total stagnation.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 months ago

Video: Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

In 2025, I still broadly believe in the stagnation thesis. The claim was not that we were absolutely, completely stuck, but that the velocity had slowed.
US politics
Left-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

MAGA Influencers Sound the Alarm on Trump's Big Tech Database, Warn They Are Being Bought Off

MAGA influencers are voicing concern over the Trump administration's collaboration with Palantir for centralizing Americans' data.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
3 months ago

How Peter Thiel's Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

Sam Altman, influenced by Peter Thiel, champions ambitious tech pursuits, shifting from being a millennial optimist to a guide for hard technology investments.
US politics
fromFuturism
3 months ago

Ex-FBI Agent: Elon Musk's Drug Habit Made Him an Easy Target for Russian Spies

Elon Musk's drug use and lifestyle reportedly made him a target for Russian intelligence operatives, claims former FBI agent Johnathan Buma.
Silicon Valley
fromBig Think
4 months ago

Leadership conundrum: What do Star Wars and Star Trek really mean?

Peter Thiel misinterprets the motifs of 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek', linking them inaccurately to capitalist and communist ideologies.
Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
4 months ago

Founder's Fund's new $4.6B fund indicates an era of big VC spending | TechCrunch

Founder's Fund raised $3.4 billion for its third growth fund, indicating strong market confidence and oversubscription from investors.
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