The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and ...

Peter Thiel has amassed a net worth of over $15 billion ... finding a deep interest in reading, mathematics, and chess. After completing his undergraduate degree in philosophy, Theil attended ...

Peter Thiel, former CEO of PayPal ... likened this potential change to the impact of IBM’s Deep Blue defeating chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, which altered perceptions of chess skills.

Billionaire Peter Thiel has gained a name as one of Silicon Valley's most controversial figures. The PayPal cofounder went on to have a successful career in venture capital. Known as a connector ...

The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, for example, could not be more of an establishment figure: He was an early investor in Facebook, is now a mentor of Vice President–Elect J. D. Vance ...

When JD Vance first met Peter Thiel in 2011, Vance was a student at Yale Law School and Thiel, a venture capitalist, gave a speech at the university criticizing modern society. Vance later wrote ...

By Theodore Schleifer Reporting from Washington The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel’s relationship with Donald J. Trump turned ice-cold in the middle of 2023, when the former president ...