Peter Thiel

The fresh capital raised will be used to accelerate the development of Sentient's open AI platform, whose testnet is slated for Q3 of this year.

Here’s how much screen time tech billionaire Peter Thiel allows his kids in a week

Peter Thiel joins the list of well-known names in the tech industry who have curtailed screen time for their kids, including Sundar Pichai, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Billionaire Peter Thiel says AI boom will make society favour people with strong verbal skills, not maths skills

Thiel pointed out that the Silicon Valley in the 21st century is “way too biased” towards those with math skills. Thiel added that the reason behind such favouritism is not clear, which is why it “seems deeply unstable” and that’s what he would bet on “getting worse”.

India's 'Bits' & 'Atoms': Who is winning the race?

Collectively, Bits of India Inc. seems to have raced ahead of Atoms in terms of sales growth. However, in terms of stock market returns, investors have been disappointed.

Billionaire signs up to be frozen after death for future revival

Billionaire Peter Thiel expressed uncertainty about the feasibility of cryogenic preservation and subsequent revival of his body in the future.

Peter Thiel doesn't plan to give money to 2024 candidates

Peter Thiel was a prominent backer of Donald Trump in the 2016 election, and helped bankroll the 2022 Senate campaigns of Republican JD Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona.

Are your crypto investments safe? Vauld's collapse raises many questions

This week’s move by crypto platform Vauld to suspend trading and withdrawals with immediate effect has shocked the crypto investor community.

Peter Thiel blasts Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett and Larry Fink as ‘Finance Gerontocracy’ at Bitcoin 2022

In his keynote speech at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami Thursday, Thiel blamed the finance titans for the digital currency’s failure to reach $100,000, a benchmark popular among the asset’s die-hard supporters.

Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel to step down from Meta board

Peter Thiel aims to spend time helping elect candidates who he believes will advance former President Donald Trump's agenda in the U.S. midterms, the Congressional elections this year, a person familiar with the situation said.

‘Peter Thiel would support Donald Trump if he runs in 2024, but…’

In an interview to Moneycontrol, Max Chafkin, the author of the biography on Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel, talks about Thiel’s ideology, views on China and his effect on US politics

Blackrock Neurotech, rival of Elon Musk's Neuralink, receives funding from Peter Thiel

Blackrock Neurotech, a firm working on chips for brain implants, has got the backing of venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who, in 1998, had co-founded PayPal with Elon Musk.

Peter Thiel submits bid for Gawker, faces challenges

Gawker, which has been inactive for more than a year, is conducting an auction of its remaining assets, including its domain names and nearly 200,000 archived articles. Most of its assets, including its sister pages Deadspin, a sports site, and Jezebel, a feminist blog, were bought in 2016 for $135 million by media company Univision Holdings Inc .

Musk, other tech chiefs back AI startup with $1 bn

The effort announced on Friday, called OpenAI, joins significant investments from companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc, which have used artificial intelligence to sharpen their businesses with services such as facial recognition or language processing.

Being data-driven helps business immensely: OYO Rooms

OYO Rooms, an online budget hotel aggregator is touted as one of India's most disruptive startups and its 21-year old founder Ritesh Agarwal for all practical purposes is the entrepreneurial ecosystem's new poster boy.

Romesh Wadhwani: The renaissance man

Soon after Wadhwani entered the world‘s rich club, primarily on the back of selling Aspect Development to i2 Technologies in 1999, he set up Wadhwani Foundation. He wanted to make sure he gave away a significant part of his wealth to help people in emerging economies where there is no well-established pattern or culture of philanthropy.

20 under 20: Innovators battle for a shot at greatness

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is offering 20 young innovators a chance to trade school for Silicon Valley and start turning their vision into reality.

Whiz-kids present biz ideas for 20Under20 fellowship

20 Under 20 is a search to find 20 extraordinary innovators under the age of 20 with ideas so bold they could transform the way we live.

Facebook's director in spotlight after cashing out

Peter Thiel was the first investor to take a gamble on Facebook Inc . Now some people are wondering whether, in selling most of his stake, the Facebook board member is signaling to others that it's time to rush for the exits.