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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. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis

• 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 ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • ABC Finance

• 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 ...

  • David Canellis