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Billionaire entrepreneur and investor who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, was an early Facebook backer, and runs the venture firm Founders Fund.
Palantir's Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, warned against 'mob rule' in procurement as MPs and unions press to drop a £330m NHS deal. Any exit ministers choose now carries legal risk as well as political cost.
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Sergey Brin has given $102 million to defeat California's Prop 40, a one-time 5% billionaire tax that could cost him about $13 billion. The state's $100 billion estimate depends as much on how many of its 200 billionaires stay resident as on the November vote.
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Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro went from no holdings to eight stocks in Q2, putting 72% in seven energy names beside a 28% Amazon stake. Most of the money sits on the supply side of AI's electricity demand, a bet Vistra's second-half earnings will test.
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California's Proposition 40 would take a one-time 5% of billionaire net worth, and at that rate the $29 billion Fortune estimates the measure loses to departures implies about $580 billion of net worth has already changed address.
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The six-year agreement moves Anthropic's workloads into a data centre in Maysville, Georgia owned by the company behind Truth Social. It also leaves Anthropic holding cheap equity in its own compute supplier.
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Clearview says InquiryIQ is a prototype no police user has ever touched, but WIRED found its interface text sitting in files the login page hands to any visitor, and that text is now the thing procurement has to ask about.
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Roughly 10% of the nearly $15bn portfolio sat in one pre-listing position, and even a year at 30% leaves the big-endowment cohort's three-year record a long way behind the S&P 500's.
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James Frith says mistrust of Palantir may be pushing patients to withdraw their records from research, and in the same letter he tells the health committee that trusts are no longer required to use the platform at all.
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Bernie Sanders and Thomas Massie are both drafting bills against Flock Safety, whose installed base sits with more than 6,000 separate municipal buyers; the annual renewal is the fragile term in that business.
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The company's federal growth now comes from spending authority on programs it already holds. That is a contractor's revenue model, with a contractor's dependencies attached.
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A 5% levy on about 200 people was costed against wealth that has already moved. Fortune counts roughly $29 billion gone, and the two men at the top were 28.5% of the base.
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Enhanced Group lost nearly $62 million in Q2 against $17.7 million of revenue, most of it sponsorship money tied to the event. The telehealth business it was built on is barely visible.
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A $300 million Series C doubles Etched's valuation in seven months on $1 billion of orders and hardware almost nobody outside the cap table has run. Buyers now have a number to price against.
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The British inference startup is in talks at a $6.5bn pre-money valuation three months after a $1bn round, Bloomberg reports. The signal is the buyer, not the multiple.
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Etched has first-pass silicon, 400 staff and more than $1bn in booked orders. What it does not have in public is a peak FLOPS figure, a power draw, or a third-party benchmark.
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A two-hour Minneapolis radar outage disrupted 1,100 flights. The Verge argues it is the bill for a handoff from Musk's DOGE to Thiel's Palantir, with none of the new money going to staffing.
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A CNBC/Generation Lab survey of 18-34-year-olds found every named AI leader distrusted by a majority, in a band from about 65% to about 81%. Consumer AI ships into a verdict already reached.
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A CNBC and Generation Lab survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18 to 34 puts distrust of Palantir's Alex Karp at 81% and Anthropic's Dario Amodei at 76%. The best-liked AI chief executive still loses 65-35.
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The OpenAI chief made a case for shortening the runway to an audience whose entry pipeline is already being absorbed by AI. Rebuilding that pipeline lands on hiring managers.
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