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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...
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...
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...
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...
When serves search results it proxies requests to its partners and says it does not retain personal identifiers with search terms; partners (including for ads) receive proxied content and — in the cas...
at least two forensic and surveillance technologies: under a roughly $2 million agreement and long-standing tied to multi-million-dollar contracts; procurement notices, Federal Procurement Data System...
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...
is the clearest documented example of a tech firm that formally terminated an contract — the company confirmed termination of a pending deal in September 2020 . Other firms have publicly declined to r...
Platforms primarily rely on a two-tier technical stack to detect CSAM: hash‑matching (cryptographic and perceptual) to find known content, and to flag novel or altered material; supplementary approach...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
shows has been the target of multiple legal actions and public complaints: a high‑profile federal trade‑secrets suit filed by rival , at least one employment class action alleging misclassification an...