Peter Thiel on Trump, Musk, Technology and Go...

Within weeks of taking office, President Trump had sealed the southern border, in a show of rapid and effective leadership - but one year on, Republicans are increasingly struggling to defend him as American civilians are killed on the streets by ICE officers. Alex Pretti and Ren ...  Show more

Brand Beckham could be unravelling after sports legend David and Spice Girl Victoria’s eldest son Brooklyn unleashed a scathing attack on them on Instagram, accusing his parents of isolating his wife Nicola Peltz and ruining their wedding. The prince of nepobabies says he doesn’t ...  Show more

Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of $11.2 billion. Through the Thiel F ...  Show more

Tech evangelist. Libertarian dreamer. Republican megadonor. Peter Thiel is many things. As Atlantic staff writer Barton Gellman puts it in his new profile of Thiel, he is “the purest distillation of Silicon Valley’s reigning ethos.” Across several interviews, Gellman learned what ...  Show more

Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war? Has Mark Zuckerberg really been a fan of Donald Trump all along? And is the bromance between Elon Musk and the president really over? In a new season of Tech Tonic, Murad Ahmed explores the relationships between Trump and some of the ti ...  Show more

The billionaire Peter Thiel is unimpressed with our pace of innovation. In this episode, he critiques artificial intelligence, longevity science and space travel — and warns that our lack of progress could lead to catastrophic outcomes, including the emergence of the Antichris ...