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AI Singularity might take place under Trump presidency, AI experts are worried
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

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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"You’ve got some tenacity, and I appreciate that”: My strange year tracking JD Vance, MAGA's future
1 month, 3 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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JD Vance urges friend Peter Thiel to back Trump: ‘Get off the sidelines’
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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J.D. Vance and women: Donor Peter Thiel said women voting was bad for America. Let’s check the evidence.
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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JD Vance’s ‘cat lady’ attacks are just the beginning of Republicans’ childbirth obsession
4 months, 4 weeks ago

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

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. During an appearance on then-Fox News personality Tucker …

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Opinion: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel backed Trump and Vance. What would their ticket do for tech?
4 months, 4 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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JD Vance owes almost everything to Peter Thiel, a pro-Trump billionaire and "New Right" ideologue
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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"It's not that complicated": Pete Buttigieg on why a gay billionaire is backing JD Vance
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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J.D. Vance: More radical than MAGA?
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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Silicon Valley Billionaires Know Exactly How They Want the Election to Go
5 months, 1 week 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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How Silicon Valley’s shift to the Right propelled JD Vance to Trump’s side
5 months, 1 week 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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JD Vance, from ‘hillbilly’ to VP candidate: How an Ohio kid from a broken home rose to be a Republican star
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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Help for depositors? Yes. Help for debtors? No.
1 year, 9 months ago

Help for depositors? Yes. Help for debtors? No.

Raw Story  

This week the Biden administration moved swiftly to contain the fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, reassuring depositors and other wobbling institutions. When the bank's precarious position became clear last week, tech investors with uninsured deposits — most notably billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel — panicked. But this weekend he was screaming in all caps that "MAIN STREET" …

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Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed investor Blake Masters in the crowded Republican Senate primary in Arizona, citing the candidate’s strident support of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. The former president said in a statement that Masters is a “great modern-day thinker” and that Masters’ chief rival, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, has done nothing about the election …

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Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies

LA Times  

Former President Trump speaks in Houston at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Assn. Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed investor Blake Masters in the crowded Republican Senate primary in Arizona, citing the candidate’s strident support of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. In picking Masters in Arizona, Trump sided with another acolyte of tech investor Peter Thiel after Trump’s …

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