OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Peter Thiel and Paul Graham taught him that the best investment opportunities are rarely the most popular, and that to do spectacularly well, investors must do things that a…
Google's Gemini grew from 5.4% to 18.2% of generative-AI web traffic in twelve months, reaching roughly 28% by mid-2026, while ChatGPT fell from 87.2% to 68%, according to Similarweb. In the same peri…
Lawyers for London Mayor Sadiq Khan have accused the Metropolitan Police of breaching procurement rules by working with Palantir Technologies Inc. on a £50 million AI and data analysis contract, which…
Brave, the privacy-focused browser, is funded by Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, according to a discussion on browser security. The conversation notes that Mozilla uses advanced fuzzing, static an…
Etched raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the San Jose chip startup at $10.3 billion, the highest valuation ever for a Sequoia-led Series C. The company, founded by Harvar…
Peter Thiel, cofounder of Palantir and a major Silicon Valley political financier, published his fullest public argument yet on his 'Antichrist' theory in a second co-authored essay for First Things, …
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has hired former OpenAI VP of Product Policy Ryan Beiermeister as a partner on its investment team, effective July 16. Beiermeister, …
Podcaster Joe Rogan suggested Jesus Christ might return as artificial intelligence, sparking online debate, but the idea of an AI Jesus is increasingly mainstream, according to Robert Geraci, a profes…
A developer released the CC Founder Decision Engine, an interactive AI advisor powered by Claude Code that synthesizes wisdom from 25+ founders and investors to help startup founders make strategic de…
Spain blacklisted Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled entities due to security concerns, aligning with broader European resistance to the US data surveillance firm. The ban …
Founders, executives, and early investors in AI companies are selling their shares at a notable pace, with figures like Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Thiel, and Michael Burry reducing or exiting positi…
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warned that the U.S. university system is falling behind China's in training engineers with practical skills, arguing that American companies have outsourced real enginee…
A journalist attended an 'intellectual social salon' about AI after receiving an Instagram invitation, finding a no-frills gathering in an Upper East Side apartment where most attendees expressed nega…
Corbett Report has upgraded its comment system and invites members to use the July open thread to discuss topics including the war in Iran and a story about CIA contractor Peter Thiel's Dialog Society…
Billionaire Peter Thiel attacked Pope Francis as a 'Chinese Communist agent' and 'godless non-white' for criticizing artificial intelligence, echoing apartheid-era rhetoric used to delegitimize Black …
Peter Thiel claimed at the Aspen Ideas Festival that Anthropic would use its AI models to rig the 2028 election, calling the company 'woke liberal.' CNN reported the claim as unsupported and conspirat…
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a 'Chinese communist agent' at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2026, after the pope released an encyclical pushing for global AI regulatio…
Palantir, a US data analytics company, has secured a £330 million contract to provide the NHS's Federated Data Platform, raising concerns about governance and transparency. Critics question the lack o…
Etched exited stealth on June 30, 2026, revealing a working AI inference chip built on TSMC's N4P process that already runs models like DeepSeek and Llama. The San Jose startup has raised $800 million…
AI hardware startup Etched unveiled its Sohu chip and rack-scale inference system on June 30, designed specifically for transformer-based large language model inference. The company claims over $1 bil…