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Palantir co-founder and founder of venture capital firm 8VC, who is also a prominent Republican donor and political commentator.
Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X that executions should be "public and brutal," backing Hegseth's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Thom Tillis, both Republicans, have criticized that plan.
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Erebor, the Palmer Luckey-backed national bank, has taken in more than $7 billion of deposits, and its June filing showed $77.8 million of loans. Its cash would cover a Silvergate-sized run, so the tighter limit on its growth is the 12% leverage floor the OCC set.
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The $5,000 check Trump promised at the Republican midterm convention would cost about $1.35 trillion by one Wharton estimate. It rests on tariff revenue the Supreme Court has already narrowed.
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Trump promised $5,000 to each American adult if his party keeps its congressional majorities, and Fortune reports that such a proposal could cost more than $1 trillion. No financing was attached to it.
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Palantir's NHS Federated Data Platform deal has a break clause that would end it in 2027, but three Whitehall sources told WIRED the changeover has to be decided within weeks. The rest of its £670m UK book is untouched.
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A New York Times poll puts 47 percent of Republicans against data center construction. The party's own strategists are telling candidates to keep their distance from the projects the president keeps defending.
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Ten Coves Capital led $22 million into Luminary, whose platform reads estate documents for advisers overseeing more than $500 billion in client assets. Human reviewers still check what the AI extracts.
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Local opposition has become a scheduling risk with a governor's signature on it. The industry's leaders cannot agree whether the cause is arithmetic, foreign propaganda, or their own conduct.
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A $52mn seed closes with an $18mn top-up and a first office outside Africa. The argument that production can stay put now rests on a $100mn bookings number.
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The Nigerian defence-tech company added $18M and a London office. The load-bearing number is a 34,000 sq ft Ghana plant due in Q4 2026, promising 50,000 units a year by 2028.
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