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(Bloomberg) -- Palantir Technologies Inc., a data mining company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is changing its employee compensation in a bid to cut costs, ensure all employees can own shares and prepare for an eventual public stock listing, said three people familiar with the matter.The company, which helps governments and…

A new report from the Committee for Standards in Public life has criticised the UK government's stance on transparency in AI governance and called for ethics to be "embedded" in the frameworks. The 74-page treatise noted that algorithms are currently being used or developed in healthcare, policing, welfare, social care…

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel sold a majority of his remaining stake in Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) last Thursday, a regulatory filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has shown.What HappenedThe Paypal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) founder sold 53,602 shares he held in the social media company in two…

Alex Wong/Getty Images Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel offloaded $11.3 million worth of the social media giant's stock on February 6, according to regulatory filings.The billionaire sold 53,602 shares, trimming his stake by 81%.…

The CEO of facial recognition company Clearview AI, Hoan Ton-That, today gave his first network television interview on “CBS This Morning.” During the brief conversation Ton-That told news-anchor Errol Burnett that he believed he had a First Amendment right to access, scrape, and store billions of files containing images of…

In a CNBC interview at Davos, Palantir CEO Alex Karp admitted that his company “ people in our country who are undocumented.” For years, Palantir has attempted to deny or downplay any role in those operations by pointing to the two wings of ICE, which deal with “criminal investigations” and…

As tech companies like Google, GitHub, and Amazon clash with workers on a range of ethical issues, Mozilla has taken an unusual, if not unprecedented, stance on labor organizing for a major tech company. The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the co…