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Peter Thiel-backed 'Olympics on steroids' looks to raise $300M
Christian Angermayer, a co-founder of the Enhanced Games, said discussions have been held with several potential investors.
A growing segment of Silicon Valley is all in on Trump: 'Very different' from backlash fears of 2016, 2020
“It's very different than 2016 when you were ostracized … in 2016 you would have had backlash from portfolio companies or founders [if you endorsed Trump],” said one Silicon Valley...
South Florida home lists for $26M amid a flurry of big-dollar local sales
A modest 5,787-square-feet, five-bedroom waterfront home in the Venetian Islands is asking a pretty penny.
Billionaire Peter Thiel was trapped inside Cambridge University debate hall by anti-Israel protesters
Thiel, the 56-year-old co-founder and chairman of Palantir, was a keynote speaker at an event held at Cambridge Union in the UK.
Palantir CEO says short sellers 'love pulling down companies' to pay for their cocaine habit
Since Jan. 1, Palantir's share price has soared by more than 50%. It was trading at $25 a share before the opening bell on Wall Street.
Billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolling 'Olympics on steroids' event that allows athletes to dope
Dr. Aron D'Souza told The Post that the idea behind Enhanced Games is to allow athletes to use whatever substances they wish "out in the open."
Silicon Valley mogul to produce film about 'PayPal Mafia' led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel
A former PayPal executive has bought the rights to a movie about Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman -- who led Silicon Valley's legendary "PayPal Mafia" in the days...
How 'PayPal Mafia' ousted Musk from CEO job — then saved SpaceX
The "PayPal Mafia" that ousted Elon Musk as CEO of the peer-to-peer payment company helped save his rocket-launching company SpaceX eight years later.
How tech billionaires in Hawaii are responding to Maui wildfires
Jeff Bezos has committed to the creation of a $100 million fund to help the island "get back on its feet," his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, wrote.
OpenAI boss -- who warned AI poses 'risk of extinction' to humanity -- is also a 'doomsday prepper'
The OpenAI boss once reportedly admitted to having a survival stockpile that included guns, gold and antibiotics.
Billionaire Peter Thiel plans to be frozen after death for future revival, but doesn't 'necessarily expect it to work'
Thiel spoke candidly about the life-preserving possibilities of so-called “cryonics."
Peter Thiel says DeSantis would be 'terrific president,' warns of 'woke' focus
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should not let "the woke issue” distract him from pressing economic questions if he runs for president this cycle.
Peter Thiel confronted Mark Zuckerberg about metaverse focus before abrupt board resignation: report
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel reportedly raised concern about Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with the metaverse just before his abrupt resignation from Meta’s board of directors last year.
Peter Thiel risked losing $50M in SVB even as his firm sounded alarm
The venture capitalist left $50 million of his own cash in doomed Silicon Valley Bank -- even though his company had raised the loudest alarm leading to its panicked shutdown...
Silicon Valley Bank meltdown sparks contagion fears: ‘We found our Enron’
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Firm advised clients to withdraw their deposits from the bank.
Peter Thiel's Palantir cuts around 2% of its workforce
Earlier this month, Palantir had also said it expects 2023 to be the company's first profitable year as it benefits from cost cuts and the artificial intelligence boom.
'This is scary': GOP blasts Twitter over bombshell censorship report
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said Twitter's act of censorship was a page out of the Chinese Communist Party playbook.
Science fact: 5 new technologies could turn our world into scary, real-life ‘Peripheral’
Amazon Prime’s “The Peripheral,” starring Chloë Grace Moretz, depicts a bleak life in 2099, when people use virtual-reality headsets to travel back in time. But the show’s dystopian plot isn’t...
Peter Thiel's Palantir has struggled to win contracts since Trump left White House
On Monday, Palantir shares tumbled 11.8% to $6.99 in afternoon trading after the company posted a loss of 6 cents a share, with adjusted earnings missed Wall Street's expectations.
How the world’s wealthiest are paying to escape reality
Inside the luxury hideaways where the world’s wealthiest hope to ride out the apocalypse.