Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will quit Congress on April 19, intentionally staying beyond the deadline to replace him with a special election and enabling him to vote for Ukraine aid and the extension of a controversial government program accused of spying on Americans.
Palantir, the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel, has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning for all branches of the U.S. armed forces, as well as Special Forces and the Joint Staff.
UK spy agencies have inked a billion-dollar deal with Amazon to host classified information on the tech giant’s cloud computing apparatus.
Students at Carnegie Mellon University are threatening to “protest” and “kick recruiters out of career fairs” that do business with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The students are particularly outraged over the software company, Palantir, and its contracts with ICE, which provide the agency with critical tools for enforcing U.S. immigration law.
A group of more than 500 musicians and bands is threatening to boycott Amazon unless the online retailer cuts business ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Women in tech organization AnitaB.org stated that it has dropped Peter Thiel’s Palantir as a sponsor of the largest conference for women in computing, the Grace Hopper Celebration, over the company’s work with ICE.
Employees at Whole Foods are reportedly demanding that the grocery store’s parent company, Amazon, cut ties with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Peter Thiel’s Palantir.
As many as 500 Amazon employees have signed a letter to executives calling for Peter Thiel’s Palantir to be banned from Amazon Web Sevices for working with ICE.
Bloomberg News noticed an interesting wrinkle in the saga of the Iran nuclear deal as President Donald Trump prepared to make a major announcement on its fate Tuesday afternoon: Trump supporter Peter Thiel and his Palantir Technologies, Inc. provide crucial services for verifying Iranian compliance.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) used her questions for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to unleash an attack on maverick Trump-supporting tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s data firm at Tuesday’s joint Senate Commerce-Judiciary hearings.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Peter Thiel’s data analysis company Palantir reportedly used Facebook to track down an alleged child predator.
Silicon Valley was sent into a dither this week after Vanity Fair indicated that legendary venture capitalist and Trump supporter Peter Thiel is about to become Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB).
Last week, tech employees mounted protests at Palantir, the Silicon Valley security company connected to Peter Thiel, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, claiming the company would be responsible for Trump’s “Muslim registry.”
The Silicon Valley Thought Police are demanding retaliation against top venture capitalist Peter Thiel for making a $1.25 million contribution to Republican Donald Trump.
Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel is evidently paying the price for backing Republican nominee Donald Trump, as the Obama administration has slapped his company with a frivolous lawsuit alleging “racial discrimination” against Asians.
Although the Palantir “unicorn” is valued at $20 billion and has taken over a huge swath of Palo Alto near Stanford University, the company is hemorrhaging top-name clients, bleeding key staff and becoming increasingly unprofitable.
The rise of Donald Trump and his “America First” platform is pushing tech CEOs even closer to the Democrat establishment, after two decades of Silicon Valley moguls being able to outsource millions of manufacturing jobs and still get huge government contracts.
Yelp! stock became the latest Silicon Valley darling in the week before Valentine’s Day to tank by double-digits, as big investors retaliated for the 50 percent stock drop since December by forcing the company’s CFO to resign.
That’s how tech and mainstream news outlets irresponsibly and negligibly reported on false rape accusations against Silicon Valley venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, who was convicted in the media long before he cleared his name in court.
