Peter Thiel

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Tech billionaire and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel is stepping up his campaign against Google, taking the Silicon Valley giant to task over its cozy relationship with China in the realm of artificial intelligence technology.

As we enter into what seems to be Cold War Two with China, what lessons about internal security can we learn from Cold War One?

Peter Thiel, one of big tech’s few prominent conservative-libertarians, is gunning for Google. The billionaire PayPal founder recently gave a speech in D.C. branding the tech giant “treasonous” and calling for a criminal investigation over its work with the Chinese military.

Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed billionaire investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel on claims that foreign governments could have infiltrated the Masters of the Universe.

Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel, billionaire technology investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-CA) is the most “dangerous” 2020 White House hopeful. 

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will look into whether Google is working with the Chinese government after billionaire and Facebook board member Peter Thiel accused the Silicon Valley giant of doing so. 

Billionaire investor, Facebook board member, and Trump supporter Peter Thiel recently called on the FBI and CIA to investigate Google for the “seemingly treasonous” act of aiding the Chinese military.

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.

Up-by-his-bootstraps investment banker J.D. Vance wants a Republican Party that helps ordinary people achieve their ordinary American dream.

Cambridge University, formerly a respected seat of learning, has booted out a young scholar for daring to champion the cause of free inquiry.

Deutsche Bank raised its rating on Netflix shares recently, betting that the streaming service will become a global “cultural necessity.”