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Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) makes data analytics software used by governments, defense agencies, and businesses to manage data.
Britain's FCA told MPs on Oct. 13 it will automate much of its supervision and enforcement with AI, and will write no AI-specific rules. Its data chief said a human still signs off every decision, for now.
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Anthropic and OpenAI have each capitalized a separate services firm, $1.5 billion and over $4 billion, to embed engineers in enterprises. Wing partner Tanay Jaipuria treats that as evidence of an integration bottleneck.
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Palantir and London's policing office withdrew their legal claims, avoiding a January High Court trial over a blocked £50m Met AI contract. Their joint statement says values played no part in the May block, so no court has ruled on a buyer's ethics objections.
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Protesters suing DHS in Maine allege the agency stored photos and license plate numbers of ICE observers in a database Palantir built. Techdirt says the filing contradicts ICE's denials, but their wording is narrow enough that both can be true.
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Kirkland & Ellis agreed this year to pay Palantir $500 million to build technology for its private equity fundraising advice, Business Insider reported. With Harvey saying it has users at 80% of the largest 100 firms, one consultant says the edge has to come from what the models know.
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By 2028, Gartner expects 70% of enterprises to walk away from agentic AI that vendor forward-deployed engineers built. A dev.to post blames pod design, a link Gartner does not draw.
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Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X that executions should be "public and brutal," backing Hegseth's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Thom Tillis, both Republicans, have criticized that plan.
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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said on Face the Nation that the Pentagon replaced Anthropic's AI models with no operational impact. No cost or quality figures were reported, so operators weighing a model-agnostic design still have to test a swap on their own work.
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Anthropic is putting $100 million into training 10,000 engineers from other companies as deployment specialists by the end of 2027. Business Insider ties the program to Claude spending ahead of an IPO, while Anthropic's executives describe a skills gap.
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Ondas launched Regna AI on October 12, 2026 as a wholly owned company, with Palantir supplying training infrastructure but no equity at the outset. Ondas is also the first customer, so government demand is untested.
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Palantir's Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, warned against 'mob rule' in procurement as MPs and unions press to drop a £330m NHS deal. Any exit ministers choose now carries legal risk as well as political cost.
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ICE emails list six states as enriched by its investigations lab and pending entry into ELITE, a Palantir-supported targeting tool. Palantir says voter roll data has never been integrated, so the records show a deportation tool being prepared for voter rolls.
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NewsGuild-CWA staff at 31 USA Today Co. newsrooms want the Palantir contract ended, citing Palantir's ICE work and reader trust. The plan pools reader data to win subscribers from anonymous visitors, and it needs buy-in from the reporters whose stories bring those visitors in.
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Pentagon told the BBC it has ceased using Anthropic's products, months after Pete Hegseth gave the department six months to drop them. For federal AI buyers, it shows a vendor designation being carried out even when the tool sits deep inside daily intelligence work.
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Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude after a phaseout that, per the BBC, overran Pete Hegseth's six-month deadline. Because Claude was built into Palantir's Maven, taking it out was harder than cutting off access to a chatbot.
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Pull The Plug, an anti-AI group of about 300 members, disrupted a London tech dinner addressed by a senior Nvidia executive last week. So far the cost to its targets is filmed disruption, while larger campaigns that reject such tactics recruit fast.
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Anthropic made 30-day chat retention mandatory for its top models in June, then offered zero retention on Sept 1 after OpenAI courted its customers. Evidence of enterprises moving to open models is still anecdotal, and the firmer sign that data terms decide deals is how fast both labs rewrote theirs.
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Michael Burry swapped his Micron and Nebius shorts for put options expiring in June and September 2027, with Micron strikes near $500. His AI-bubble call now has a deadline and price levels that chip-stock holders can measure their own positions against.
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AWS's Asa Kalavade says forward-deployed engineers are 'unicorns' after Amazon and three rivals pledged roughly $9bn to the work in three months. Companies building in-house AI integration teams are recruiting from the same thin market.
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Nurses at HCA, which runs the Palantir-built Timpani scheduler at about 130 of its 190 hospitals, say it frequently overrides the shifts they ask for. They say the cost lands on their own time and possibly on patients, a charge HCA disputes.
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