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The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Aaron McIntire recaps the week's biggest stories, including Lucy Guo, a 30-year-old college dropout, surpassing Taylor Swift as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire with a $1.3 billion net worth from her Scale AI stake, co-founded with Alexandr Wang and backed by Peter Thiel. Concerns mount over Palantir Technologies' alleged contract with the Trump administration to build a centralized database on Americans, countered by ex-employee Wendy Anderson's defense of its data integration tools. Tim Walz and Nate Silver analyze young men's shift toward conservatism, with polls showing conservatives dominate among those with strong mental health. Plus, Stephen Miller slams Democrats' "unsellable ideology," and fears grow over Chinese-owned properties near U.S. military bases.

Lucy Guo, Taylor Swift, Scale AI, Palantir Technologies, Peter Thiel, Alexandr Wang, Wendy Anderson, Trump administration, centralized database, Tim Walz, Nate Silver, young men voters, conservatism, Stephen Miller, Chinese investments, military bases, national security

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AM Update, week in review.
0:05.0	A collection of the best moments from Aaron McIntyre's morning update.
0:10.6	Taylor Swift has been unseated as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.
0:16.8	According to Forbes, she was unseated by a 30-year-old hard-partying college dropout,
0:22.1	who has reaped a windfall from the artificial intelligence boom.
0:26.1	Lucy Guo, a self-professed workaholic who rides an electric skateboard to work when she's not being chauffured by an assistant,
0:33.6	has a net worth of $1.3 billion, according to Forbes' list of America's richest self-made
0:39.7	women that was released this week.
0:41.8	Quo took Swiss title of World's Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire in April when it was
0:47.4	reported that Scale AI, that's the firm she co-founded with Alexander Wang in 2016 when she
0:52.5	was just 21 and he was 19.
0:55.0	That firm has been valued at $25 billion in a deal set to close this month.
0:59.5	The tender offer has not yet been finalized, but it's expected to close at evaluation in a few weeks.
1:06.0	Guo is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and was raised in San Francisco where she picked up coding in middle school,
1:12.3	dropped out of Carnegie Mellon University, and she clinched a $100,000 entrepreneurial scholarship
1:17.9	bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is the chairman of a company called
1:24.8	Palantir Technologies. It's a big data analysis company, and he's been its chairman since its inception back in 2003.
1:33.9	Alex Karp is actually the CEO of Palantir, and you may have seen headlines in recent days.
1:41.2	It was from the New York Times, which originally reported it, that Palantir Technologies
1:46.1	had been contracted by the Trump administration and the federal government to create a centralized
1:50.7	database with data on every single American. That sounds really scary. And if it's true,
1:58.2	any version of that is true, it absolutely is scary.
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