Jessica Mathews
Senior Writer at Fortune
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On Thursday, as weapons startup Anduril and social media giant Meta announced a partnership to design new virtual and augmented reality devices for the U.S. military, the companies shared a photo of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg standing side-by-side in the Meta offices—smiling! You’d never guess from the chummy photo that, just eight years ago, Zuckerberg’s company (back when it was still called Facebook) very publicly fired Luckey after a donation he made to a...
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Tesla has been rushing to get everything in order for its ambitious launch: beginning to test the robotaxis with safety drivers in Austin, and in the San Francisco Bay Area, just a few weeks ago—and, more recently—hosting initial meetings and overviews with Texas agencies and Austin city departments to brief them on some of the details.
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If you guessed that they are all tech-industry insiders (and men), you’re only partially correct. A less obvious but important bond linking these techies together is their shared history with Peter Thiel, the reclusive billionaire venture capitalist who famously wrote the first check that funded Facebook. Thiel’s endorsement of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, and his speech at the Republican National Convention, are considered key factors in Trump’s improbable path to victory.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan, former director of the National Science Foundation, resigned from the agency at the end of April. Saul Loeb—Getty Images
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