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3 days, 8 hours ago

'People Who Don’t Come To Office, Don’t Work': PayPal's Founder Peter Thiel Blasts Remote Work

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PayPal founder Peter Thiel recently explained why Silicon Valley moved away from the Work from Home model. In a TV interview, Thiel criticised remote work, stating, "When people didn’t come into the office, they weren’t working.” He described the initial phase as one where employees had the power to "insist on not working." Highlighting a connection between remote work, perceived …

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AI Singularity might take place under Trump presidency, AI experts are worried

Firstpost

Despite Trump’s podcast appearances where he described “super-duper AI” as both “alarming” and “scary” in a rather puzzled tone, many speculate that his administration’s policies could accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence Figures like Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., expected to influence AGI policies, bring their own set of complications. Despite the President-elect’s summer podcast appearance where he …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

"You’ve got some tenacity, and I appreciate that”: My strange year tracking JD Vance, MAGA's future

Salon

On my first full day following JD Vance, he sauntered past three eager reporters peppering him with questions to ask me if I wanted to grab milkshakes. Cunningham couldn’t believe Vance didn’t appear at the governor’s annual ice cream social: “You missed Fran’s cherry pies, one of the highlights in Greene County!” One Republican strategist reached his breaking point when, …

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3 months ago

The Albanese government could encounter powerful opponents in its fight against online disinformation

ABC

Last week, I wrote a small piece about the Albanese government's war on big tech. Michael Sonenscher, a fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge, published a neat little book on this question in 2022, titled "Capitalism: The story behind the word." I also noted that, according to an essay Mr Thiel published in 2009, he doesn't think …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

JD Vance urges friend Peter Thiel to back Trump: ‘Get off the sidelines’

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senator JD Vance is urging his long-time supporter, Silicon Valley …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

McNary High School principal makes surprise announcement on teacher's gender transition

Daily Mail

An Oregon high school principal sent a surprising message to parents about a teacher's gender transition. Scott Gragg, the principal of McNary High School in Keizer, recently shared a message from Diesel Technology teacher Tristan Thiel, who announced that she transitioned over the summer and asked the public to accept her new identity. McNary High School Diesel Technology teacher Tristan …

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4 months ago

How a 10th pass Gujarati became a millionaire in the US: ‘No MBA, just common sense’

Hindustan Times

American billionaire and PayPal founder Peter Thiel once famously called restaurants the worst businesses to invest in. An X user named Sunil shared the story of his Gujarati friend who immigrated to the United States, opened a Gujarati restaurant, and now lives a comfortable life in the land of opportunity. “I told him that Peter Thiel said that the worst …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

It Is Possible to Be Too Creepy for the GOP

Slate

Two years before Democrats had settled on “weird” as the most effective criticism of Republican politics, Blake Masters was the unwitting face of it. A former Silicon Valley venture capitalist with Peter Thiel’s backing who ran for Senate in Arizona, Masters chilled audiences with his extreme political stances on issues like abortion and with front-facing videos and TV ads where …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

J.D. Vance and women: Donor Peter Thiel said women voting was bad for America. Let’s check the evidence.

Slate

Since he was nominated for the vice presidency, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. The U.S. economy Indeed, the period of steepest growth in that chart occurred in the vicinity of 1940, when women’s labor participation surged as a result of World War II. On that subject, Harvard professor Claudia Goldin—a historian and labor economist who won a Nobel Prize in 2023 …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Melinda French Gates mocks ‘silly’ Elon Musk: 'Not a philanthropist, just uses…'

Hindustan Times

Melinda French Gates slammed the new generation of billionaires like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and PayPal founder Peter Thiel use their "megaphones" instead of their bank accounts to bring change in the world. Talking to The New York Times, Bill Gates' former wife said that the new generation of "billionaire activists" like Elon Musk, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, hedge fund …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

JD Vance’s ‘cat lady’ attacks are just the beginning of Republicans’ childbirth obsession

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel backed Trump and Vance. What would their ticket do for tech?

LA Times

Vance’s ascendance to vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, with ardent backing by tech investor and megadonor Peter Thiel, may seem improbable given the tech sector’s longstanding role in Democratic Party fundraising. Yet Thiel’s support of Vance reflects a larger backlash against the power of legacy tech firms in the United States. As some pro-tech Democrats chafe against the …

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5 months ago

JD Vance owes almost everything to Peter Thiel, a pro-Trump billionaire and "New Right" ideologue

Salon

In 2016, JD Vance compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and now he is the former president’s running mate. Behind the scenes of the Ohio Senator’s transformation from a “Never Trump guy” to the Republican nominee's second-in-command is Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of Paypal. “Peter’s talk remains the most significant moment of my time at Yale …

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5 months ago

"It's not that complicated": Pete Buttigieg on why a gay billionaire is backing JD Vance

Salon

In a segment of "Real Time with Bill Maher" at the start of the weekend, openly gay United States Secretary of Transportation and one-time presidential hopeful, Pete Buttigieg, was asked to lay out his thoughts on why Peter Thiel — gay billionaire and former CEO of PayPal — has supported JD Vance's political career thus far, despite Vance's anti-LGBTQ+ stance. …

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5 months ago

J.D. Vance: More radical than MAGA?

Raw Story

Politico reporter Ian Ward interviewed Ohio Senator J.D. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” But on Wednesday night, Vance called Trump, quote, “America’s last best hope.” SEN. J.D. I think the way that the Republicans have been using the opioid epidemic and tied it to immigration is sort of a good symbol for …

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5 months ago

Peter Thiel’s ‘doping games’ and the rise of superhumans

Live Mint

Peter Thiel’s Enhanced Games promise to be an annual sporting event that lets athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, nicknamed the pro-doping Olympics. Christian Angermeyer, a tech investor running Thiel’s Enhanced Games, has written that we should expect several waves of human enhancement, with the first generation marked by mass adoption of weight-loss medications, followed by drugs that can tackle muscle degeneration …

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5 months ago

Silicon Valley Billionaires Know Exactly How They Want the Election to Go

Slate

Who was happiest about Donald Trump’s Monday decision to pick Ohio Sen. and former ivory-tower Appalachia whisperer J.D. On X, Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey celebrated the coming matchup of “Tech Bro vs Kamala Harris,” while Chamath Palihapitiya—a now-right-leaning VC who co-hosts the megapopular All-In podcast with Sacks—reveled in the potential for “a Bestie adjacent as the VP.” JD …

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5 months ago

How Silicon Valley’s shift to the Right propelled JD Vance to Trump’s side

The Telegraph

Thiel became disenchanted with the administration, however, and avoided backing him four years later, saying the Trump White House was “crazier” and “more dangerous” than he had imagined and that it “couldn’t get the most basic pieces of the government to work”. On Monday, Sacks spoke at the Republican National Convention, saying Democrats had turned San Francisco into a “cesspool” …

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5 months, 1 week ago

JD Vance, from ‘hillbilly’ to VP candidate: How an Ohio kid from a broken home rose to be a Republican star

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy JD Vance, the famed Appalachian memoirist turned pugnacious Republican senator, …

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6 months ago

Welcome to the Enhanced Games, the Olympics without drug tests promising to change the world

The Independent

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel on AI: ‘Going to be much worse for math people’

Hindustan Times

PayPal co-founder and former CEO Peter Thiel warned that artificial intelligence could impact jobs market severely and roles that require mathematical skills could be at risk. PayPal co-founder and former CEO Peter Thiel is seen. He said, “It’s going to be much worse for math people than word people… People have told me that in the next 3-5 years, AI …

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1 year ago

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows

Associated Press

Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. LAION, which stands for the nonprofit Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network, said in a statement that it “has a zero tolerance policy …

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1 year ago

Study shows AI image generators being trained on explicit photos of children

LA Times

David Thiel, chief technologist at the Stanford Internet Observatory, wrote its report that discovered images of child sexual abuse in the data used to train artificial intelligence image generators. LAION said in a statement that it “has a zero tolerance policy for illegal content and in an abundance of caution, we have taken down the LAION datasets to ensure they …

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1 year, 7 months ago

PayPal co-founder signs up to be frozen after death in hopes of future revival

Live Mint

PayPal co-founder and German-American billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel has recently revealed that he has signed up to be cryogenically frozen after his death to be potentially revived in future! “Is it true that you’re signed up to be cryonically preserved when you die so that you might be brought back to life in the future?” journalist Bari Weiss asked the …

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'People Who Don’t Come To Office, Don’t Work': PayPal's Founder Peter Thiel Blasts Remote Work

AI Singularity might take place under Trump presidency, AI experts are worried

"You’ve got some tenacity, and I appreciate that”: My strange year tracking JD Vance, MAGA's future

The Albanese government could encounter powerful opponents in its fight against online disinformation

JD Vance urges friend Peter Thiel to back Trump: ‘Get off the sidelines’

McNary High School principal makes surprise announcement on teacher's gender transition

How a 10th pass Gujarati became a millionaire in the US: ‘No MBA, just common sense’

It Is Possible to Be Too Creepy for the GOP

J.D. Vance and women: Donor Peter Thiel said women voting was bad for America. Let’s check the evidence.

Melinda French Gates mocks ‘silly’ Elon Musk: 'Not a philanthropist, just uses…'

JD Vance’s ‘cat lady’ attacks are just the beginning of Republicans’ childbirth obsession

Opinion: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel backed Trump and Vance. What would their ticket do for tech?

JD Vance owes almost everything to Peter Thiel, a pro-Trump billionaire and "New Right" ideologue

"It's not that complicated": Pete Buttigieg on why a gay billionaire is backing JD Vance

J.D. Vance: More radical than MAGA?

Peter Thiel’s ‘doping games’ and the rise of superhumans

Silicon Valley Billionaires Know Exactly How They Want the Election to Go

How Silicon Valley’s shift to the Right propelled JD Vance to Trump’s side

JD Vance, from ‘hillbilly’ to VP candidate: How an Ohio kid from a broken home rose to be a Republican star

Welcome to the Enhanced Games, the Olympics without drug tests promising to change the world

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel on AI: ‘Going to be much worse for math people’

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows

Study shows AI image generators being trained on explicit photos of children

PayPal co-founder signs up to be frozen after death in hopes of future revival