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.

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 ...

Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed with the possibility ... Hassabis had once been the second-­ranked chess player in the world under the age of 14. Now he was focused on ...

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 ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said his cofounder Peter Thiel's public embrace of Donald Trump wasn't easy. Karp supported Joe Biden in 2020 and is now backing Kamala Harris. Thiel has not endorsed a 2024 ...

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 ...