Meta's AI reorganization has caused employee unrest, with CTO Andrew Bosworth admitting the process was 'atrocious.' A leak exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, and Sam Bankman…
Leaked records reveal that billionaire investor Peter Thiel has secretly led an invite-only club called Dialog, which hosted retreats featuring sessions on sex, cult-building, and World War III prepar…
France's domestic intelligence service will replace US tech company Palantir's AI data tools with those from French firm ChapsVision to avoid strategic dependency, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ann…
SpaceX's IPO is delivering massive returns to a select group of venture capital firms, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Valor Equity Partners, and DFJ Growth, which invested earl…
Billionaire Peter Thiel has backed a new AI-powered tribunal called Objection that allows wealthy individuals to challenge news articles they disagree with, with the first case targeting a Hollywood R…
Founders Fund launched a new YouTube and X show Thursday featuring 12 Silicon Valley figures, including Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and Bryan Johnson, playing the deception game Mafia at San Francisco'…
Opal Camera is rebranding to Opal Electronics and expanding beyond webcams into AI-powered consumer devices, backed by a $40 million Series B investment from OpenAI. The startup, now valued at $275 mi…
A SaaS founder argues that despite the "SaaSpocalypse" trend of declining recurring revenue and AI commoditizing software features, the core problems that SaaS solves remain unchanged. The founder ass…
Tyler Cowen's Friday assorted links post on May 29, 2026, covers topics including economies of scale in homebuilding, Peter Thiel's involvement in Argentina, and a New York Times interview with Paul M…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, an atheist and former Thiel fellow, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for "disarming" the technology. Olah acknowle…
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has relocated his family from the US to Buenos Aires, Argentina, citing high taxes, political turmoil, and fears of nuclear war and an AI meltdown as reasons for the m…
Vice President JD Vance is caught between the competing influences of Pope Leo XIV and billionaire Peter Thiel over the future of artificial intelligence. The Pope recently issued an encyclical center…
Peter Thiel has delivered a series of private, invitation-only lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing attendees from academia, technology, and religious circles, according t…
Pope Leo XIV quoted Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings* in his new encyclical on AI and technology, marking the first time a fictional character has been cited in a major papal docum…
The first LCF-style proof assistant, Edinburgh LCF, was introduced in 1975, establishing the foundational principles of a proof kernel, natural deduction, and goal-directed proof that underpin modern …
London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50 million contract between the Metropolitan Police and the US tech company Palantir, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules because the police had…
A new analysis argues that Peter Thiel's military-AI companies Palantir and Anduril, named after artifacts from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, fundamentally contradict the author's ethical framework. …
Palantir has released an audio edition of its essay "The Scouring of Middle Earth," featuring a *Lord of the Rings*-inspired soundtrack, exclusively for paying subscribers. The piece compares the ethi…
Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel do read the science fiction works they reference, but they misinterpret them by identifying with the authoritarian or dystopian factions r…