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A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/30/mercor-younge…

These 22-Year-Olds Are Now The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.

"Land was Owned by Billionaires Who Didn’t Allow Access to National Monument – Now it’s Open"
#Environment
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.…

Land was Owned by Billionaires Who Didn’t Allow Access to National Monument – Now it's Open
The private ranchland blocked a 3.8-mile access road to a large National Monument in Montana, which will now be opened by the nonprofit.

The Late Bloomer Actor
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Peter Thiel's Armageddon
speaking tour has—like the world—not ended yet.
For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit,
spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday
through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers.
He has chatted onstage with the economist podcaster Tyler Cowen about the katechon
(the scriptural term for “that which withholds” the end times);
traded some very awkward on-camera…

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Afstandsnorm windmolens belemmert klimaat- en bouwdoelen | #VNG
https://vng.nl/nieuws/afstandsnorm-windmolens-belemmert-klimaat-en-bouwdoelen
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The warm outer layer of a Little Red Dot as the source of [Fe II] and collisional Balmer lines with scattering wings
Alberto Torralba, Jorryt Matthee, Gabriele Pezzulli, Rohan P. Naidu, Yuzo Ishikawa, Gabriel B. Brammer, Seok-Jun Chang, John Chisholm, Anna de Graaff, Francesco D'Eugenio, Claudia Di Cesare, Anna-Christina Eilers, Jenny E. Greene, Max Gronke, Edoardo Iani, Vasily Kokorev, Gauri Kotiwale, Ivan Kramarenko, Yilun Ma, Sara Mascia, Benjam\'in Navarrete, Erica Nelson, …

The warm outer layer of a Little Red Dot as the source of [Fe II] and collisional Balmer lines with scattering wings
The population of the Little Red Dots (LRDs) may represent a key phase of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. A cocoon of dense excited gas is emerging as key component to explain the most striking properties of LRDs, such as strong Balmer breaks and Balmer absorption, as well as the weak IR emission. To dissect the structure of LRDs, we analyze new deep JWST/NIRSpec PRISM and G395H spectra of FRESCO-GN-9771, one of the most luminous known LRDs at $z=5.5$. These reveal a strong Balmer break,…

"Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/labour-must-fight-right-wing-billionaires-undermining-net-zero-ed-miliband

Elon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism
The billionaire X owner is accelerating his AI-driven assaults on reality and Europe had better harden its defences, argues Heidi Siegmund Cuda
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/elon-musk-is-ga…

Elon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism
The billionaire X owner is accelerating his AI-driven assaults on reality and Europe had better harden its defences, argues Heidi Siegmund Cuda

Irony at z=6.68: a bright AGN with forbidden Fe emission and multi-component Balmer absorption
Francesco D'Eugenio, Erica Nelson, Xihan Ji, Josephine Baggen, Jenny Greene, Ivo Labb\'e, Gabriele Pezzulli, Vanessa Brown, Roberto Maiolino, Jorryt Matthee, Elena Terlevich, Roberto Terlevich, Alberto Torralba, Stefano Carniani
https://a…

Irony at z=6.68: a bright AGN with forbidden Fe emission and multi-component Balmer absorption
We present the deepest medium-resolution JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy to date of a bright Little Red Dot (LRD) AGN, Irony at z=6.68. The data reveal broad Balmer emission from H$α$-H$δ$ and Balmer absorption in H$α$-H$ε$. The absorption lines are kinematically split: H$α$ is blueshifted while higher-order lines are redshifted suggesting complex gas kinematics; their relative ratios are inconsistent with a single, passive absorbing screen. The line depths require absorption of both the BLR and…

Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dealb…

Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises $1 Billion in New Round
The fund-raising effort, the company’s third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.