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> Asked about other California tech titans, Newsom praised OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as an innovator who can "look at a mountain" and "see right through it."

> Citing a relationship with Peter Thiel dating to his days as a county supervisor, Newsom called the Palantir founder a "next-level" intellect who has grown increasingly "nihilistic."

> "He shouldn't be put purely in a political box, as I know my party often puts him into," Newsom said of Thiel, a top MAGA donor. "He belongs in many different boxes."

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