Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist

Peter Thiel, a influential Silicon Valley figure and PayPal founder, secretly funded Hulk Hogan's legal case against Gawker in 2016 for revenge, then became an early Trump supporter and architect of political figures like Vice President J.D. Vance. A libertarian technoconservative who opposes democracy and international institutions, Thiel has recently used religious rhetoric about the "Antichrist" to attack AI regulation, while critics argue he represents a dangerous Silicon Valley ideology that combines surveillance capitalism with a quasi-religious belief in AI as a god-like entity.