Palantir Technologies
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Palantir Technologies is a publicly traded surveillance software founded by Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, and Alex Karp in 2003 to process military intelligence for counter-terrorism operations for the US, Israel, and their allies.
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- Website: https://palantir.com/
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- 2025-06-05: Discussed on episode IM 822 of the Intelligent Machines podcast, in which co-host Leo Laporte discusses how Palantir CEO Alex Karp describes Palantir's origin in their book The Technological Republic (2025-02).[1]"
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- ↑ Leo Laporte (co-host); Paris Martineau (co-host); Jacob Ward (guest); Daniel Oberhaus (guest). 2025-06-05. “IM 822: The One Man Unicorn - AI in Psychiatry”. twit.tv, Intelligent Machines. Accessed 2025-07-06. Time: 00:49:15/02:35:02. Archived from the original on 2025-07-01. “LAPORTE: Silicon Valley got misled, that in the, you know, last century, engineers, scientists, worked with government for the general public wheel. So he talks about the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb. He talks about the Internet. And he says, unfortunately, in this century, Silicon Valley has been distracted by crap, by gadgets, by toys, by making money. And he says in this book, and, you know, I have to say the first few chapters, I was starting to say, "yeah, yeah, you're right". He says, the best minds in our country should be doing is working with the government to protect the American way of life, our Western values. You use the word democracy, Jacob. I'm not convinced Alex Karp cares so much about democracy, although he has in the past been a donor to Democratic Party stuff. I mean, he's not, I don't think he's a MAGA Republican, but, in the book, one of the, one of the victories that they tout, and I think it's a genuine victory, is in Iraq: there was a big problem with IEDs, these improvised explosive devices. You didn't know where they were going to be. And it was killing a lot of American soldiers. And Palantir came in, took these disparate, … videos and data sources, combined them and is able to make a tool that kind of predicted where IEDs would likely to be. And he says (I haven't seen the numbers) it was a great success, that it saved lives. And that was, was the beginning of their relationship with the, with the US government. He has a $795 million contract with the Department of Defense. Got that last week. Just signed $113 million contract. Actually, since Trump took office, they've signed more than $113 million in government spending. Among the things … they are going to be doing is combining data from the Social Security aministration and the Internal Revenue Service. Historically in the United States, the IRS has been very protective of its data.”
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