@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-10 08:45:47
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-10 20:08:51
Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-10 10:09:51
Balmer Absorption in Iron Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Karen M. Leighly, Sarah C. Gallagher, Hyunseop Choi, Donald M. Terndrup, Julianna R. Voelker, Gordon T. Richards, Leah K. Morabito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07611
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-10 20:03:55
[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist
Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are
“legionnaires of the Antichrist”
in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
https://bsky.app/prof…
@andycarolan@social.lol2025-09-10 10:38:59
Why do companies hire billionaire CEOs anyway? Wouldn't they be better off hiring someone more aligned with the average product/service user? Someone who can push the company forward and not upset everyone aside from investors and shareholders?
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-10 12:30:56
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures: Warnings of 'the Antichrist' and U.S. destruction (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYwMDY4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxNDUxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjAwNjg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImQxNzk4ZjkzLWIzODQtNDUyMS05NzA4LWFlYTRiNjMxMDdkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTAvMTAvcGV0ZXItdGhpZWwtYW50aWNocmlzdC1sZWN0dXJlcy1sZWFrZWQvIn0.brxQFr7mdukp74gW6Q947iM4hxsExxwLCU-dYfUj8js&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p21#a251010p21
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-08 17:46:11
Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-10 15:33:33
The new owners of CBS,
billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David Ellison,
believe CBS News is broken.
And like their friend Donald Trump,
they’re convinced the cure for a fracture is a sledgehammer.
Let’s call it restoration by disruption.
Enter Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Weiss has been called a provocateur
and is one of the most polarizing figures in today’s American media landscape.
She has been praised for he…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-07 18:15:58
Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-09 15:52:29
Europe’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…
