A proposed wealth tax targeting billionaires in California has sparked intense pushback from tech founders in the state, with some preparing to leave if the tax becomes law. Prominent conservative tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey explains, “One market correction, nationalization event, or prohibition of divestiture (not at all uncommon during wartime) and I am screwed for life.”
Palantir Technologies, the data-analytics company founded by Peter Thiel, has launched an unconventional fellowship program that offers high school graduates a chance to skip college and work directly for the company.
Comedy Central’s “South Park” has abruptly ended season 27 after only five episodes, but on Wednesday, the show launched season 28 with a focus on the viral 6-7 trend, mocking of tech bro Peter Thiel, and more swipes at President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel revealed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found some left-wing NGOs that are allegedly fronts disguising “borderline criminal activity.”
Migration is helping to wreck the nation’s housing market and impose huge costs on young Americans, investor Peter Thiel told the Free Press news site.
Federal agents seized the phone and electronic devices of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan in an early morning raid on his Manhattan apartment, just a week after the crypto betting platform correctly predicted Donald Trump’s stunning 2024 presidential election win.
A group of Silicon Valley power brokers, led by Elon Musk, are using their wealth and influence to help put Donald Trump back in the White House in 2024.
Major Silicon Valley investors are backing former President Donald Trump after expressing disgust for President Joe Biden’s anti-growth policy proposals.
Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a talk from Peter Thiel and blocked the American tech entrepreneur from leaving the Cambridge Union.
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is betting on drugs for his next investment after chipping in to bankroll the “Olympics on Steroids”
Tech billionaire and GOP megadonor Peter Thiel reportedly became an FBI informant in the summer of 2021, providing information to Johnathan Buma, a Los Angeles-based FBI agent who specializes in investigating political corruption and foreign-influence campaigns.
Elon Musk’s brain chip startup, Neuralink, has successfully raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, just months after securing approval for its first in-human clinical trial. However, the company’s success is overshadowed by allegations of rushed and botched animal experiments. Regardless of its animal mishaps, most Americans think getting a brain chip is a bad idea.
Doug Rushkoff, a leading theorist on digital culture, has voiced his concerns about the current state of technology, suggesting that tech billionaires are in “escape mode,” planning for catastrophic events and creating virtual realities to escape from societal realities that their own industry are causing. Speaking of Mark Zuckerberg and those like him, Rushkoff says, “They’re torturing themselves now, which is kind of fun to see. They’re afraid that their little AIs are going to come for them. They’re apocalyptic, and so existential, because they have no connection to real life and how things work.”
According to a recent analysis by researcher David Rozado, the popular new AI chatbot ChatGPT by OpenAI — the AI research company founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Jessica Livingston — displays a leftist political bias.
Policy experts and tech leaders including conservative venture capitalist Peter Thiel are urging the incoming GOP House to investigate China’s exploitation of the U.S. intellectual property system, as well as ties between Big Tech companies and the communist country.
Billionaire businessman and Republican donor Peter Thiel has given Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) an opportunity to match his campaign contributions to Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters.
Billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has offered to make a multimillion-dollar contribution to the effort to elect Blake Masters to the U.S. Senate in Arizona if the Mitch McConnell-led Senate Leadership Fund will match his support, Axios reported on Wednesday.
Venture capitalist and GOP megadonor Peter Thiel has reportedly indicated that he will focus on helping Arizona Republican Blake Masters in his campaign’s final days as he believes Republican J.D. Vance is well positioned to win in Ohio.
Blake Masters has won Arizona’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, according to a projection early Wednesday morning from Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman.
Venture capitalist and GOP megadonor Peter Thiel put an additional $1.5 million into the super PAC supporting Blake Masters for his run in Arizona’s competitive Republican Senate primary, just weeks before the GOP primary, Politico reports.
U.S. technology companies have shied away from doing business with the U.S. military because they fear losing access to the Chinese market, according to Palmer Luckey, who founded the virtual reality hardware firm Oculus and now runs Anduril Industries, a defense startup.
Venture capitalist and GOP megadonor Peter Thiel put an additional $3.5 million into the super PAC supporting Blake Masters for his run in Arizona’s competitive Republican Senate primary, according to the Washington Post.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has once again lashed out at cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, stating that he wouldn’t buy “all of the Bitcoin in the world,” even if he could for the price of $25.
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel recently took shots at Warren Buffett, referring to him as a “sociopathic grandpa from Omaha,” and Bitcoin’s “enemy number 1” Thiel’s fiery remarks came during a recent Bitcoin conference in Miami, Florida.
Peter Thiel, the first major investor in Facebook, has announced he will step down from the board of directors for the social media giant (now rebranded as “Meta”) as he focuses on supporting Republican political candidates in 2022.
Venture capitalist and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel on Wednesday hosted a fundraiser for Democrat-allied Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WV) primary opponent, Harriet Hageman.
The Republican Party understands that it needs to do something about Big Tech censorship. But a new, even more totalitarian threat looms on the horizon — the politically motivated control, surveillance, and suppression of financial transactions.
PHOENIX (AP) — Blake Masters, an ally of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, filed papers Friday to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.
J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” announced his candidacy on Thursday as a Republican for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel will reportedly back Republican Blake Masters’ challenge of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in the Arizona Senate race.
Mike Pompeo urged Americans to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, calling them the “Genocide Olympics.
Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel said Tuesday that American Big Tech companies do not consider themselves to be “American companies.”
Palantir founder and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel criticized Big Tech companies for banning Donald Trump and other conservatives yesterday, in a roundtable discussion hosted by the Richard Nixon Foundation.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel has contributed $10 million to a super PAC supporting a likely Republican bid for the U.S. Senate bid in Ohio by investor and Hillbilly Elegy memoir author J.D. Vance.
The coronavirus has reminded all of us—even the tech titans of Silicon Valley—that the digital and the virtual ultimately matter less than the physical and the biological.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for dinner at the White House in October.
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.
Google’s China-based AI “Manhattan Project” with military applications should be investigated by the FBI and CIA, said Peter Thiel.
