“Dialog,” an exclusive, highly secretive association founded by billionaire technology investor and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, has had its internal records exposed online. The leaked documents reveal the identities of influential figures spanning US politics, finance, national security, and technology who have participated in the group’s private gatherings.

According to a report by WIRED, the society’s internal directories and registry records were left exposed on the internet, laying bare the attendee lists for its highly restricted events.

Established by Thiel in 2006, Dialog is an invitation-only private organization that convenes US officials, foreign government representatives, and Silicon Valley executives for off-the-record annual retreats. For nearly two decades, the organization has consistently declined to disclose its membership rolls.

The exposure began when a directory embedded in the source code of the group’s website was discovered by Swiss hacker maia arson crimew. Known for previously exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the systems of security camera firm Verkada, the hacker told WIRED that the directory was uncovered via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified the authenticity of the directory’s contents.

Separately, a source provided WIRED with the registration list for Dialog’s upcoming 2026 retreat.

The list features the names of 222 individuals, detailing each attendee’s membership status and designation, including classifications such as “active member” and “guest.” The retreat is scheduled to take place from August 12 to 16, 2026, at the Powerscourt Hotel, located just outside Dublin, Ireland.

The leaked data also details a program composed of closed-door sessions. Panel titles include: “Does Money (Really?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear Power,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” and “How Is Your Sex Life?”

Other scheduled discussions include a session titled “Start a Cult,” led by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Start a Party,” conducted by a former White House national security official.

While some of the documents contain the standard material of typical thought-leadership conferences, they also reveal an extraordinary convergence of institutional and private power.

Among the registry records is General Alexus Grynkewich, the Commander of US Air Forces Central Command who took office as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO and Commander of US European Command in July 2025. The leaked list indicates that Grynkewich has attended Dialog events since 2021.

The website directory also lists current Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the “PayPal Mafia,” a former Middle Eastern intelligence chief, and a sitting US ambassador. These names appear alongside the founders and executives of some of the United States’ largest surveillance, data brokerage, and advertising data firms.

These industry executives appear in the directory alongside the very regulators and lawmakers who oversee their sectors.

For instance, Dialog’s chairman, Auren Hoffman, co-founded SafeGraph, a location data broker, and LiveRamp, an identity-resolution firm—two pivotal suppliers in the consumer data economy.

Hoffman is listed in the directory alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who shapes financial data regulations, and Senator Ted Cruz, the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and data privacy authorities.

Similarly, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is listed in the same association directory as Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees the intelligence agencies with which Palantir contracts.

None of the individuals named in the WIRED report responded to requests for comment. Raffi Grinberg, who identifies himself on LinkedIn as Dialog’s executive director and is the author of the self-help book How to Be a Grown-Up, also did not respond to inquiries.

The registry records appear to document not only who holds membership in Dialog, but also who has confirmed attendance for upcoming events.

Of the 222 individuals registered for the 2026 event, 87 are marked as first-time attendees, according to the leaked records.

Others have histories with the group spanning more than a decade, with a select few dating back to the society’s founding 20 years ago. None of the registrants, including Grynkewich, utilized official government email addresses to register.

Instead, all participants registered using personal or corporate email accounts, effectively keeping their correspondence and attendance outside the purview of public records laws that apply to government email systems.

According to WIRED, the primary thread uniting the attendee list—beyond titles and offices—is a shared interest in artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future.

When prompted on the registration form to predict future trends, registrants repeatedly returned to a central theme: that artificial intelligence will thoroughly restructure commerce, warfare, education, and faith within a few years.

Several participants predicted mass unemployment and a subsequent return to labor unions and state-sponsored programs. Others anticipated an “AI winter,” domestic terrorism targeting data centers, defendants choosing AI-powered attorneys over public defenders, or a religious revival triggered by these technological shifts.

Another registrant predicted that “societal decay will continue to accelerate.”

Members also listed personal skills on their forms, ranging from “funhouse construction,” accent mimicry, backcountry skiing, and urban exploration to “meditative and psychedelic exploration into the nature of reality.”

One participant listed “compassion and existential dread” as personal talents, while another listed “dinner parties, keeping secrets, remembering birthdays.”

The book recommendations listed by participants are classic and optimization-oriented. Recommended texts include works by Marcus Aurelius and Milan Kundera, alongside Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets, Peter Attia’s Outlive, and—recommended by at least one attendee—Thiel’s own book, Zero to One.

Dialog also facilitates personal matchmaking. The registration form asks participants, “Are you looking for love?” and offers options to opt into a “future matchmaking” database as a “Single Male,” “Single Female,” or “Other.”

A separate website, dating.dialog.org, hosts an application promoted with the slogan: “meaningful connections for extraordinary people.”

The form also collects sensitive personal data, including the “political leaning” of each participant. Dialog pledges on the form that this information “will never be shared on the app or with other attendees.” However, this data and the matchmaking responses were both compromised in the leak.

The records are maintained on Airtable, a commercial database platform. For each participant, Dialog records their membership status, a history of all retreats attended, a biography, their city of residence, and a personal access token.

The leaked registry contains high-profile names that do not appear in the group’s public-facing directory. Among them are Randy Kroszner, a former Federal Reserve Governor who currently serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, former general counsel and acting chief of staff for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); Peter Goettler, President of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist from the University of Chicago.

The list also includes a contingent of Google and Google DeepMind executives, including Tom Lue, who manages global relations for the company’s pioneer AI division, as well as Washington Post national security correspondent Souad Mekhennet.

The remainder of the roster consists of hedge fund and private equity billionaires, current and former foreign officials, television actors, bestselling authors, and religious leaders.

Among the internal documents left exposed on the database was a guide for event moderators.

The document instructs moderators to remind participants that all discussions are strictly “off-the-record” and that comments must be concise and “non-obvious.”

Moderators are also instructed to keep introductions brief to “avoid status signifiers” in rooms crowded with senators, high-ranking officials, and corporate leaders.

Since its inception, Dialog has operated with a minimal public footprint. It hosts at least one meeting per year where seating is pre-assigned, sessions are structured by moderators, and strict non-attribution rules apply to all remarks.

According to Axios, which first reported on the group’s plans to establish a physical campus in the Washington, DC area, past meetings have been held at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona and the San Clemente Palace in Venice, Italy.

The society has frequently been described as a technology-sector equivalent of the Bilderberg meetings, where Western political and business elites convene behind closed doors.

In 2022, statistician Andrew Gelman published one of Dialog’s invitation letters on his blog, revealing the event’s format and a registration fee exceeding $16,000.

The invitation list for the group’s 2014 meeting re-entered public scrutiny this year after the US Department of Justice released files showing Jeffrey Epstein was among approximately 150 invitees. Whether Epstein actually attended the meeting remains unclear.

US President Donald Trump, following controversies over experience in Congress, has nominated Jay Clayton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the nation’s most senior intelligence post.

The selection, which will fill the vacancy left by incumbent Director Tulsi Gabbard when she departs on June 30, comes after turbulent weeks following Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director.

“There are very few people in the legal community who are as highly respected as Jay,” Trump said in a statement on his social media platform, Truth Social, calling on the US Senate to confirm Clayton’s nomination as quickly as possible.

A political independent, Clayton has served since August 2025 as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York—a position legal experts describe as the most powerful post within the Department of Justice.

Trump had nominated Clayton to this post shortly after winning the 2024 presidential election, describing him as “a tough fighter for the facts.”

From Wall Street lawyer to federal prosecutor

Born in West Virginia, Clayton began his legal career from 1993 to 1995 as a law clerk to Judge Marvin Katz of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

He then worked at the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm from 1995 to 2017, first as an associate and later as a partner. During this period, Clayton represented major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, building a multi-million dollar fortune during his time as a Wall Street lawyer.

In 2017, at the beginning of his first presidential term, Trump nominated Clayton to chair the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). During his confirmation process, Clayton pledged to fully sever ties with his law firm and his Wall Street clients, which included Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, and Deutsche Bank AG.

After the Office of Government Ethics determined that there was no conflict of interest, Clayton was confirmed by the Senate in May 2017 by a 61-37 vote and assumed office.

Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, praised the nomination and said he looked forward to Clayton’s leadership, while Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, voted against him due to his Wall Street ties.

During his tenure as SEC chairman, Clayton frequently testified before Congress on issues such as market integrity, digital asset regulation, cybersecurity, and US-China economic interdependence. After leaving office, he returned to Sullivan & Cromwell while also taking on executive roles at Apollo Global Management and American Express.

He also continued his academic work, serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School since 2009 and at the Wharton School since 2021.

Between 2022 and 2025, he co-chaired the university’s Institute for Law and Economics.

New York prosecution

In June 2020, Trump announced he would appoint Clayton to the post of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York after dismissing then-US Attorney Geoffrey Berman.

Clayton expressed interest in the position but did not comment on whether he was aware that Berman would be dismissed.

The appointment did not materialize at the time, and Audrey Strauss was appointed to the role.

Clayton was nominated again for the US Attorney post for the Southern District of New York in 2025, at the beginning of Trump’s second term.

Clayton sought the office to replace an interim judge who had refused to assist the Department of Justice in dropping charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Clayton’s appointment, which was not directly confirmed by the Senate, was finalized by the court’s own approval. At the time, The Wall Street Journal commented that Clayton, who typically avoided political controversies, found himself in the midst of a “partisan battle” with this move.

The most notable process conducted by Clayton’s prosecution office was the indictment and litigation process initiated in January against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of “narco-terrorism” and other offenses.

Clayton’s team also played critical roles in reviewing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and in the case of an Iraqi citizen accused of plotting attacks on US soil on behalf of Iran.

Recently, The New York Times claimed that Clayton spent frequent time with Trump, played golf, and was “often absent” from his office.

Like Bill Pulte, Jay Clayton has no prior experience in the intelligence world. Trump’s previous choice, Bill Pulte, had been accused of targeting Trump’s political opponents by filing criminal complaints over mortgage fraud allegations during his tenure as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

While none of these cases resulted in convictions, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched an investigation into how the FHFA conducted its investigative processes.

Pulte’s lack of intelligence-gathering experience and the politically charged investigations he initiated drew intense criticism in Congress.

In this new phase, however, members of Congress have reacted more positively to Clayton’s nomination. Republican Senator John Thune said of Clayton, “I think he is a highly qualified professional with great skills to manage complex problems.”

Senator Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the committee that will vote on the nomination, also described Clayton as “very qualified.” According to The New York Times, CIA Director John Ratcliffe also supported Clayton’s appointment to the post.

Statements on election security

Days before being nominated as Director of National Intelligence, Clayton appeared as a guest on CNBC, where he addressed the possibility of irregularities in California’s elections.

Speaking about election security during the June 8 broadcast, Clayton said, “We are doing an absolutely terrible job, and the American people are right to question it.”

Arguing that the state’s laws—which allow mail-in ballots to be sent to all voters and allow votes to arrive after Election Day—”create opportunities for irregularities,” Clayton’s claims came at a time when Trump was asserting, without providing any evidence, that the elections were “rigged.”

Jay Clayton, who holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, completed his graduate studies at King’s College, Cambridge. He received his law degree in 1993, also from the University of Pennsylvania.

US inflation accelerated to 4.2% in May, the highest level since April 2023, driven by a surge in energy prices linked to the Iran war.

Inflation rose above 4% for the first time in three years, though the increase was broadly in line with expectations amid concerns over how far higher energy costs would ripple through the economy.

The reading marked the highest level since April 2023 and exceeded April’s 3.8% rate.

On a monthly basis, inflation increased at a slower pace than in April, potentially signaling that the worst of the recent price pressures may have passed.

Another encouraging sign was a slight decline in gasoline prices.

Asked about the Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said, “I love inflation,” and argued that oil prices had fallen because “we destroyed 22 ships last night.”

According to the report, much of the increase in inflation stemmed from a 3.9% rise in energy prices, which pushed the 12-month increase in that category to 23.5%.

Core CPI, which excludes the more volatile food and energy components and is widely viewed by analysts as a better indicator of future inflation trends, offered some grounds for optimism.

Core prices rose 0.2% in May, down from a 0.4% increase in April and below analysts’ expectations for a 0.3% gain.

Core goods prices fell 0.1% on a monthly basis, suggesting underlying price pressures remained contained.

On an annual basis, CPI increased 2.9%, in line with economists’ expectations.

Ground beef, roast beef and steak prices declined last month, although the parasitic fly outbreak reported in the United States last week could complicate logistics for farmers and contribute to higher prices.

Food prices rose just 0.2%, while shelter costs — a key component for Federal Reserve policy decisions — increased 0.3%, half the pace recorded in April.

Shelter, which accounts for more than one-third of the CPI basket, rose 3.4% from a year earlier.

Government and industry officials stressed that the insect, whose name has attracted widespread attention, does not pose an immediate threat to food supplies.

Meanwhile, transportation services prices fell 0.6%, potentially indicating that higher energy costs have not yet spread broadly across other sectors.

Similarly, services excluding energy services — another measure closely watched for signs of oil-price pass-through effects — rose 0.3% after increasing 0.5% in April.

New vehicle prices fell 0.3%, while used car and truck prices edged up 0.1%.

However, airline fares, a clearer indicator of energy costs feeding through to consumer prices, rose 2.7%, while motor vehicle insurance prices fell 1.7%.

As for interest rates, few observers expect the Federal Reserve to cut rates when it delivers its first policy statement under new Chair Kevin Warsh next Wednesday.

Market expectations point to just one rate move this year: an increase in December.