Peter Thiel
German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- Sep 24
Peter Thiel receives Axel Springer Award in Berlin as hundreds protest tech investor
Tech investor Peter Thiel received the Axel Springer Award in Berlin on 24 September 2026, using his acceptance speech to criticize media bias and urban rent controls while demonstrators protested outside.
- Jun 16
French spy agency DGSI to replace Palantir with local firm ChapsVision, citing digital sovereignty
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced the switch on Tuesday, framing it as a necessary step to reduce strategic dependency on U.S. technology, following Washington's recent restriction of Anthropic's AI models for non-U.S. users.
