Palantir
PulseAugur coverage of Palantir — every cluster mentioning Palantir across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
- employs Alex Karp 95%
- used by InterCityExpress 95%
- founded by Peter Thiel 90%
- founded by Panthalassa 90%
- founded Founders Fund 90%
- employed by Louis Mosley 90%
- invested by Panthalassa 90%
- used by Sadiq Khan 90%
- invested in Panthalassa 90%
- founded Alex Karp 70%
- employed by Alex Karp 70%
- invested in Peter Thiel 70%
- 2026-06-09 regulatory Palantir intends to sue London Mayor Sadiq Khan over a blocked £50 million Met Police contract. source
- 2026-06-09 controversy Palantir intends to sue London Mayor Sadiq Khan after he blocked a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan police. source
- 2026-06-07 regulatory European governments are reviewing contracts with Palantir due to concerns over its ideology and security weaknesses. source
- 2026-06-05 regulatory A Canadian MP is questioning a secret federal contract awarded to Palantir, citing concerns over AI transparency. source
- 2026-06-04 partnership Palantir secured a £9 million contract to manage the UK's firearms licensing system. source
- 2026-06-02 partnership Palantir is developing a new API for the IRS to consolidate data and aid financial crime investigations. source
- 2026-06-02 funding Palantir's valuation has reached $375 billion, reflecting its significant growth. source
- 2026-05-24 funding Palantir received an initial $3.9 million contract for a federal worker surveillance system. source
- 2026-05-22 regulatory London's police watchdog halted a £50 million deal between the Metropolitan Police and Palantir over AI usage concerns.
- 2026-05-22 regulatory London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50 million contract for Palantir's AI services with the Metropolitan Police.
- 2026-05-21 regulatory London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50 million contract for Palantir's AI technology with the Metropolitan Police due to procurement rule breaches.
- 2026-05-12 product_launch Palantir's technology is enabling ICE agents to access a database of 20 million individuals on their iPhones for faster targeting. source
- 2026-05-11 controversy Members of Parliament have voiced concerns over Palantir's access to identifiable NHS England patient data. source
- 2026-05-11 controversy UK MPs and patient groups have voiced concerns over Palantir's access to identifiable NHS England patient data. source
- 2026-05-11 funding Over 100 European asset managers and banks increased their investments in Palantir. source
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Palantir's UK chief defends company amid public sector data concerns
Louis Mosley, the UK and Europe boss for Palantir, is facing increased scrutiny due to the company's controversial work and its significant contracts with the British public sector. Critics are calling for the governmen…
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Palantir's AI surveillance tech sparks controversy with corporate merch release
Palantir, a company known for its AI-powered surveillance technology and controversial government contracts, has released branded merchandise, including a chore coat. This move has drawn criticism, with some viewing it …
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AI data center resistance framed as fight for democracy
A growing coalition of local communities is resisting the expansion of AI data centers, viewing the fight as crucial for democracy rather than just a technological concern. These grassroots movements are pushing back ag…
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Meta removes end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs, sparking privacy concerns
Meta has reversed its decision to implement end-to-end encryption for direct messages on Instagram. The company initially planned to roll out this feature, but has now opted to keep messages in plaintext. This move has …
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Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf details defense tech firm's growth and evolving warfare
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, who has led the defense tech company since its inception, discussed its early days developing autonomous surveillance towers. The company, now valued at $30.5 billion, is facing increasing scr…
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff transforms earnings calls into vodcasts
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has transformed the company's quarterly earnings calls into a more engaging, influencer-style vodcast. This new format, featuring a broadcast-quality setup and guest interviews, aims to reach…
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Peter Thiel launches ocean-based AI servers cooled by seawater
Peter Thiel's company, Panthalassa, is developing underwater data centers powered by seawater for cooling. These massive structures, comparable in height to the Flatiron Building, are designed to operate autonomously in…
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UK minister defends Palantir's £330M NHS AI platform amid criticism
A UK minister has defended Palantir's £330 million contract to provide a data platform for the National Health Service (NHS). Despite concerns about intellectual property and vendor lock-in, the platform has received a …
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Mastodon users discuss Foucault, power, and market transparency
This post discusses Michel Foucault's ideas on power struggles and the hidden nature of their exercise, suggesting that market "transparency" may contain an implicit trap. The author relates this to Palantir, a company …
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Nasdaq gains as AI demand underpins markets despite energy uncertainty
The Nasdaq saw a 1.02% increase, while Brent crude oil prices surged by 2.8% to $111.25 per barrel due to heightened U.S.-Iran tensions. Despite AI-driven demand supporting equity markets, the Palantir stock decline pos…
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Peter Thiel backs $140M startup building wave-powered AI data centers at sea
Panthalassa, a startup focused on renewable energy and ocean technology, has secured $140 million in Series B funding. The investment, led by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, will support the development of offshore dat…
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LEGO video critiques Trump, Iran-Israel conflict
A video, created by Brick Beat Battalion, is circulating on Mastodon, humorously critiquing political figures and international conflicts. The video uses LEGO animations to illustrate perceived wrongdoings and hypocrisi…
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Palantir reports strong Q1 earnings, with revenue up 85% year-over-year
Palantir reported strong first-quarter 2026 financial results, with revenue reaching $1.63 billion, an 85% increase year-over-year. The company saw significant growth in its U.S. commercial sector, which surged by 133%.…
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Palantir CEO: 10% of world 'professionally hates us' amid Iran war business boom
Palantir reported a significant increase in revenue for Q1 2026, reaching $1.63 billion, an 85% year-over-year rise, largely driven by increased US government spending. The company's Maven targeting system has seen doub…
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Anthropic's rapid rise and funding challenge Palantir's enterprise AI contracts
Anthropic's recent surge in enterprise AI adoption is significantly impacting Palantir's commercial contract landscape. Companies are increasingly piloting Anthropic's models, often alongside or as an alternative to Pal…
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Critics decry billionaires and tech firms amid societal concerns
This cluster expresses extreme negative sentiment towards billionaires, tech companies like Palantir, and figures such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk. The content links these entities to concepts like genocide, fascism, an…
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Kepler uses Claude AI for 94% accurate financial document analysis
Kepler has developed a verifiable AI platform for financial services, leveraging Anthropic's Claude model to provide auditable answers from financial documents. The platform achieves 94% accuracy in extracting specific …
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Kepler Finance uses Claude to build verifiable AI for financial services
Kepler Finance has developed a platform that integrates AI with traditional coding to provide verifiable financial data analysis. The system uses Anthropic's Claude model as a reasoning layer, combined with deterministi…
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Tech's ethical quandaries and societal impact dominate Sunday reading list
This collection of articles explores various facets of the technology industry and its societal impact. Topics range from the nature of metaphors and cyclical historical patterns to introspection about belonging in tech…
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OpenAI, Palantir Fund Influencers to Promote US AI and Fear China
OpenAI and Palantir are reportedly funding a campaign through a nonprofit called Build American AI to pay social media influencers to promote pro-AI messaging and create fear about China's AI capabilities. These influen…