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Peter Thiel has publicly expressed interest in experiments and companies exploring transfusions of younger blood as an anti‑aging idea, but there is . Multiple contemporaneous investigations and Thiel...
Yes — a small rare‑earths startup called Vulcan Elements secured a conditional $620 million loan from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital as part of a larger $1.4 billion package; Vulcan had ta...
Verified public complaints about Mercor include user reviews alleging scams and misleading “AI interviews” on Trustpilot and Medium, employee complaints on Glassdoor and Indeed about project cancellat...
Spotify collects broad categories of personal and usage data — including profile details, listening history, device and location data, and third‑party info — and has faced criticism and regulatory act...
DuckDuckGo has been funded by a mix of institutional venture firms and prominent individual backers — names repeatedly reported include Union Square Ventures, OMERS Ventures, GP Bullhound, Impact Amer...
Proton VPN maintains a strict no-logs policy and publishes transparency reports saying it has denied legal requests for VPN user data—Proton reported 29 legal requests as of June 2025 and states all 2...
X (formerly Twitter) has begun rolling out an "About this account" feature that shows an account’s country/region, username-change history, join date and how the app was downloaded; the rollout starte...
ICE’s recent actions under the 2025 administration include a sharp rise in detentions (about a 70% increase to almost 66,000 in detention by November 2025) and a large jump in people accepting “volunt...
ICE has publicly documented and widely reported contracts naming Palantir and Clearview AI with specific award values: Palantir was awarded a roughly $30 million modification to build an “ImmigrationO...
Snopes was the center of a protracted ownership and legal fight beginning in 2017 that involved Proper Media and Bardav Inc.; that dispute led Snopes to solicit public donations in 2017 and culminated...
Available reporting in the provided sources documents many instances of deepfakes involving both Bill/Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and shows how politicians and platforms have reacted; however, t...
KoBold Metals has publicly disclosed a long list of institutional investors and prominent venture backers across multiple press reports and funding announcements—most notably Durable Capital Partners,...
Polling and third‑party lists consistently place wire services and public broadcasters—especially The Associated Press and Reuters—and outlets like BBC and PBS among the most factual and least biased;...
DuckDuckGo publicly markets itself as a privacy-focused search engine that “does not track users” and uses contextual ads rather than behavioral profiling . Available sources do not provide a direct, ...
OpenAI’s public materials and reporting indicate a standard “up to 30 days” retention window for many API and ChatGPT deleted conversations, though there are notable exceptions (e.g., Operator data up...
DuckDuckGo has had a commercial relationship with Microsoft that affected how its browser handled Microsoft-owned tracking scripts: DuckDuckGo acknowledged a “search syndication” or ad partnership tha...
Microsoft and DuckDuckGo have a commercial relationship: DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft (Bing/Microsoft Advertising) as a search and ad partner, which has at times produced contractual limits on DuckDuckGo...
X began visibly rolling out an “About this account” / country-of-origin label for profiles in a phased public rollout beginning around November 20–22, 2025, with many outlets flagging activity on Nove...
NCMEC’s CyberTipline receives millions of reports annually and routes them to law enforcement after staff review and processing; in 2024 the tipline received about 20.5 million reports and NCMEC conso...
Daniel Ek, Spotify co‑founder, announced on Sept. 30, 2025 that he will step down as CEO and transition to executive chairman effective Jan. 1, 2026; Spotify will replace him with two co‑CEOs, Gustav ...