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Peter Thiel is a startup founder by Palantir. Co-Founder, Palantir Technologies. This page tracks 211 recent news stories about Peter Thiel, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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Vista Energy up 4% after billionaire Peter Thiel buys stake in the Argentine shale oil producer
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Vista Energy up 4% after billionaire Peter Thiel buys stake in the Argentine shale oil producer

Peter Thiel's surprise $500 million bet on an Argentine oil company signals that even Silicon Valley's most contrarian tech investor sees energy—not artificial intelligence—as the next frontier for capital deployment. The stake in Vista Energy, a struggling shale producer in one of the world's most volatile economies, suggests that Thiel believes the coming years will demand physical commodities over digital disruption, a dramatic reversal from the tech billionaire's decades-long bet on disruption itself. The move raises uncomfortable questions about whether energy scarcity, not abundance, is what the world's smartest investors are actually preparing for.

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Peter Thiel Once Said You Should ‘Forget About the Medium-Term’ When Planning Your Career—Here’s Why Bill
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Peter Thiel Once Said You Should ‘Forget About the Medium-Term’ When Planning Your Career—Here’s Why Bill

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Fukuyama, Thiel, and the Revenge of the Last Man

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Thiel Becomes Nashville’s Edgiest Pastor

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Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

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Get ready to flee socialist America

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Tech Overlord Peter Thiel Is Going Viral For Word Salad On Why Evil Can Be 'Kind Of Good'
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Tech Overlord Peter Thiel Is Going Viral For Word Salad On Why Evil Can Be 'Kind Of Good'

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Peter Thiel’s new Antichrist warnings
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Peter Thiel’s new Antichrist warnings

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Peter Thiel accuses Obama, Pope Leo of AI fearmongering: ‘No ideas’
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Peter Thiel accuses Obama, Pope Leo of AI fearmongering: ‘No ideas’

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Demonstration protests defense tech conference

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Peter Thiel Was an Early Outside Investor in Facebook and Co-Founded Both PayPal and Palantir Before Building a Hedge Fund Now Concentrated in Power and Energy Stocks. Here's What That Track Record Says About Following His Contrarian Bets.
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Peter Thiel Was an Early Outside Investor in Facebook and Co-Founded Both PayPal and Palantir Before Building a Hedge Fund Now Concentrated in Power and Energy Stocks. Here's What That Track Record Says About Following His Contrarian Bets.

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Peter Thiel Calls Effective Altruism a Cult, but Says They Got One Thing Right About AI — ‘It Could Be Weaponized’
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Peter Thiel Calls Effective Altruism a Cult, but Says They Got One Thing Right About AI — ‘It Could Be Weaponized’

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Palantir Billionaire Peter Thiel Has 42% of His Portfolio in These 2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks
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Palantir Billionaire Peter Thiel Has 42% of His Portfolio in These 2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks

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IonQ and rocket lab test peter thiel's monopoly playbook

IonQ holds 47% of the trapped-ion quantum market while Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket nears its first launch, and both are betting that… Continue reading on Medium »

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How Vance and Thiel Get the Antichrist Backwards

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PayPal was losing $10 million every month to fraud

Palantir’s story began with Peter Thiel’s experience fighting sophisticated fraud at PayPal and eventually evolved into a much larger experiment in connecting enormous amounts of government data. The...

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Peter Thiel Says US AI Demand Is Booming, but Cathie Wood Is Trimming Palantir: Here's How Much Ark Invest Sold
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Peter Thiel Says US AI Demand Is Booming, but Cathie Wood Is Trimming Palantir: Here's How Much Ark Invest Sold

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Peter Thiel says evil can be "quite good" for progress
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Peter Thiel says evil can be "quite good" for progress

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AI is advancing. But what about our lives? — Peter Thiel's cold-eyed question
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AI is advancing. But what about our lives? — Peter Thiel's cold-eyed question

Generative AI writes text, builds code, and answers difficult questions. Every time it does, I feel like 'the future has arrived.' I, too, am amazed by this technological shift.Even so, amidst the ...

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