Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. Thiel co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and served as its CEO.
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Trump pardoned the guy who founded the Church Of AI
With all the hullabaloo surrounding Joe Biden's inauguration, Trump's last-minute pardons slipped under the RADAR a bit. ...
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Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall
The White House has struck a deal with Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the US-Mexico ...
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Fantastic! CIA-funded Palantir is helping the NHS plan its coronavirus response
Palantir is helping the NHS build a new data platform that tracks medical staff and resources across the country in order ...
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15 hedge fund managers earned $12B last year — thanks to bullish tech stocks
Five hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion each last year, and they did it (partly) by investing in big players ...
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The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you've never heard of
The NYT published an eye-opening piece detailing a relatively unknown firm offering facial recognition services to roughly ...
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Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google
Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after ...
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Peter Thiel's Palantir set to delay IPO under bumbling leadership of CEO Alex Karp
Bloomberg today reported that Palantir Technologies, a Peter Thiel-founded company that builds mass-surveillance solutions ...
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Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts
Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...
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Study: Trump's paid Peter Thiel's Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE's mass-surveillance network
Perhaps no other company has profited more from the Trump administration's treatment of undocumented immigrants -- and US ...
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Here’s how billionaires are planning their immortality
While we all know that billionaires control a substantial amount of the world’s wealth – in fact, current projections ...
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EOS rumored for new wave of investments from Bitmain and billionaire Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who co-founded PayPal, is rumoured to have backed development group Block.one and by extension ...