@kubikpixel@chaos.social«"Blackbox" Palantir — Was macht das rasant wachsende KI-Unternehmen genau? Warum die rasant wachsende KI-Firma als umstritten gilt:
Ein Professor für IT-Sicherheitsrecht erklärt, warum die Datenfirma nicht nur in Fachkreisen kontrovers diskutiert wird»
Palantir ist mehr als nur kritisch zu betrachten, denn Palentir handeln mit ihrem Datenhunger sehr undurchsichtig.
🔊
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDaten-Firma Palantir erzielt 85 Prozent Umsatzplus
Palantir baute sich den Ruf auf, Muster in großen Datenmengen zu finden. Nach Militär und Behörden wollen nun auch US-Unternehmen davon profitieren.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/palantir-yale-confere…
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAs much as I think Palantir is the Darth Vader of Silicon Valley, the CSO of Coinbase was formerly the CISO at Palantir, and that dude is wickedly fierce when it comes to cybersecurity.
Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA
https://therecord.media/trump-consider…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialPalantir has been selected to build a new national firearms licensing database for police forces across England and Wales.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/gove
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialEin Jahr Digitalministerium: Wildberger schiebt den Stein Souveränität den Berg hoch, Höttges plant Fusion mit T-Mobile US, Palantir erklärt Krieg zur Softwarefrage. Wer hat den Mut hat, den Preis für DigitaleSouveränität zu zahlen? #Kuratiert #DigitaleSouveränität
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/116362146726772749
Watch as MEPs start knocking back drinks with folks from Palantir at their favourite pubs around the parliament in the coming days. (Like they already do with lobbyists from Google, Microsoft, etc.)…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzYikes. I just found out that I overlapped with Alex Karp (multi-billionaire CEO of Palantir) for a year at our very small university ('college' in the US). Don't remember him, but it's scary to see what he's become. Just watching this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7VOoFwDtU…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeSovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.
The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.
The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, vs. $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to $595M (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/palantir-tops-…
@nohillside@smnn.chSilicon Valley Bets $200 Million On AI Data Centers Floating In the Ocean and „hopes to eventually deploy thousands of the nodes.“ Wonder where they hope to get the GPUs from.
The #AI bubble can‘t burst soon enough.
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/116362146726772749
Palantir, la empresa del CEO nazi y el CTO aún mšs nazi, la empresa que estš detršs de la Gestapo 2.0 (aka ICE), va a hacer lobby en la eurocšmara.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back
@paulwermer@sfba.socialPalantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-relea…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialPalantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/29/palantir-has-relea…
@gevoel@mastodon.greenPetitie: geen Palantir in Europa
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-palantir-petition-EN?akid=s7164139..LnvO1O
@cdarwin@c.imWe call on European governments to:
Stop signing new contracts with Palantir.
Review and phase out existing contracts with the company.
Invest in transparent, publicly accountable European alternatives.
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-
@funkvolk@mastodon.socialIn BW erleben wir gerade die Wandlung des Ministerpräsidenten Kretschmann zum Bürger Kretschmann.
Politisch war ich oft genug nicht glücklich mit den Entscheidungen seiner Regierung (Ende Coronamaßnahmen! Bezahlkarte! Palantir!)
Menschlich ist er eine Persönlichkeit, die m. E. in der Politik fehlen wird. Einer, der versucht hat, die Welt um sich herum wirklich zu verstehen - philosophisch und naturwissenschaftlich (Hannah Arendt! Zitronengelbe Tramete!). Das zu beobachten, hat Spa…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @metacurity@infosec.exchange @Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a report, UK lawmakers call on the government to end a £330M NHS deal with Palantir and disclose more details of a military contract with the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/palantir-s-3…
@matzekult@chaos.social
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyUK government still planning to entrust Trump oligarch Peter Thiel's Palantir with handling data of its National Health Service. Then UK ambassador Mandelson (now out because of his Epstein ties) helped facilitate the deal.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026/
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchangePalantir is evil and supports evil. Why am I not surprised that these talking points are echoed by the current US administration?
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data" 😱 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Mutmaßlicher US-Angriff auf Schule in Iran — Palantir-System rückt in den Fokus:
Nach dem tödlichen Luftangriff auf eine iranische Schule gerät Palantirs Maven in die Kritik.»
Ja Palantir ist künstlich aber sicher nicht intelligent. Auch deswegen ist es mehr als "nur" kritisch zu betrachten sondern als verantwortungslose unkontrollierbarer Waffe.
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@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaSUPERVIKTIGT - SKRIV PÅ FÖR ATT STOPPA ATT PALANTIR FÅR ANSIKTSÖVERVAKA SVENSKAR.
#integritet #palantir #sverige
@servelan@newsie.socialPalantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You're One of the Baddies
https://gizmodo.com/palantir-debuts-chic-chore-coat-so-the-world-knows-youre-one-of-the-baddies-2000750606
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@marcel@waldvogel.family
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaIl contratto con Palantir della polizia metropolitana è stato bloccato dal Comune.
La polizia metropolitana di Londra non ha potuto firmare un contratto del valore massimo di 50 milioni di sterline con la societŠ tecnologica statunitense Palantir, dopo che il vicesindaco di Londra si è rifiutato di approvare l'accordo.
@…
@askesis@qoto.org @aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
It’s OK, Palantir should still have access.
@funkvolk@mastodon.social
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMutmaßlicher US-Angriff auf Schule in Iran: Palantir-System rückt in den Fokus
Nach dem tödlichen Luftangriff auf eine iranische Schule gerät Palantirs Maven in die Kritik.
https://www.
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comhi everyone,
today, as CEO of vnc resolver, i have came to tell you that we are selling out to palantir. everyone will be required to verify their age using PERSONA ONLY in order to use vnc resolver to comply with California law. thank you and glory to netanyahu
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaYou can replace "Santa Claus" in the lyrics of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" with "Palantir" and it still works
@Life_is@no-pony.farmNTV berichtet, dass in den USA ein 13-jähriges Mädchen, das verschwunden war, jetzt nach 32 Jahren wieder lebend aufgefunden wurde. In dem Bericht steht nicht drin, dass jemand verhaftet wurde oder zur Fahnung ausgeschrieben wurde. Auch sonst steht eigentlich überhaupt nichts in dem Bericht drin, außer dass sie von einer Cold Case Unit gefunden wurde, die moderne ErmittlungsMethoden eingesetzt habe. Daraus schließe ich, dass sie mit der Software #Palantir gefunden wurde und dass sie nicht gefun…
@gwire@mastodon.socialTechdirt piece suggesting that Palantir has gone so far into Trumpist ideology, that they may have become untenable for any government that seeks to show itself as distinct from Trumpism.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palantir-goes-mask-off-for-…
@kctipton@mas.toPalantir's ELITE App: "Kind of Like Google Maps" for Finding Deportation Targets | State of Surveillance https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/palantir-elite-ice-targeting-app-confidence-scores-2026/
@cdarwin@c.imA year into Trump’s second term,
as Palantir deepens its relationship with an administration that many workers fear is wreaking havoc at home,
employees are finally raising concerns internally,
as the US’s war on immigrants,
war in Iran,
and even company-released manifestos has forced them to rethink the role they play in it all.
"I think there’s a bit of an identity crisis and a bit of a challenge.
We were supposed to be the ones who were preve…
@pgogl@troet.cafe @DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social @servelan@newsie.socialPalantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWe translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/915237/palantir-manifesto
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p55#a260422p55
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIt is nice that Palantir explicitly confirms it's evil character with statements like this. It should make it easier to boycot the company and it's products.
Just an excerpt added as image, link for full text:
https://twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398573453312
@eyebee@mstdn.social @aral@mastodon.ar.alYeah, this is fine and normal. Please, give Palantir access to all your citizens’ data.
#palantir
@newsie@darktundra.xyzImmigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over Palantir’s ELITE https://www.404media.co/immigrant-rights-lawyers-file-lawsuit-over-palantirs-elite/
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKrach in London wegen Palantir
Der Londoner Bürgermeisters Sadiq Khan stoppt einen geplanten Vertrag zwischen der Londoner Metropolitan Police und dem US-Softwareunternehmen Palantir.
https://www.heise.de/news/…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialEin Softwarekonzern entdeckt plötzlich seine Liebe zur Weltordnung und erklärt Krieg zur rationalen Option
Wer KI-Waffen baut, soll sich nicht mit Moral aufhalten, sondern mit Effizienz und Loyalität gegenüber dem Staat
Am Ende klingt das weniger nach Analyse als nach Verkaufsargument für Behördenbudgets
Quelle: Golem über Palantirs Manifest „The Technological Republic“
#KI
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSuch madness.
Palantir is to be granted access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data, in a deal that has prompted fresh concerns about the US AI company’s deepening reach into the British state.
https://www.theg…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Großstadt blockiert Überwachungssoftware Palantir
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imPalantir was initially funded by
In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture capital arm of the CIA,
and has been working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been criticised by civil liberties groups.
It works with several other UK government organisations,
including the army.
The Israeli army reportedly used Palantir for AI-based targeting in the war in Gaza,
which is a main reason Amnesty International campaigned against Palantir within the…
@nohillside@smnn.ch‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/20/us-tech-giant-palantir-swiss-magazine-wav
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWorld's highest-grossing law firm Kirkland & Ellis agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising capital (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4243f9c0-63eb-48d8-b395-bd1ca5cc37a2
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"Organizations can set up alerts for “concerning behavior,” like exfiltrating datasets, and search the session logs of individual users. They also allow organizations to see which users have viewed specific sets of information."
https://www.wired.com/story/palant…
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no#UK #Journalism still exists. Important work,
@heiseonline@social.heise.dePalantir: US-Verteidigungsministerium macht Maven Smart System zum Standard
Das US-Verteidigungsministerium macht Palantirs KI-System Maven zum festen Bestandteil der US-Militärstruktur.
https://w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPalantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won't End Well. (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palantir-goes-mask-off-for-fascism-it-wont-end-well/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p11#a260421p11
@servelan@newsie.social'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Sound Over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palantir-technofascist-manifesto-criticism
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIt takes a village to raise a fascism. @… https://ecoevo.social/@ml/116456227378920367
@cdarwin@c.imA new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid no federal income taxes last year,
despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans
in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration,
made $1.6 billion in net income last year.
It grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valua…
@matzekult@chaos.social'Das Landtagswahlergebnis gibt der grün-schwarzen Koalition freie Hand für ihre Überwachungspläne. [...] Denn in Sicherheitsfragen liegen #Grüne und #CDU wie beim Wahlergebnis eng beieinander. Beide Spitzenkandidaten wollen Palantir-artige Datenanalysen. [...] Beim Thema Videoüberwachung herrscht noch …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, advocating for hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism, and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/pala
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialInside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-developer-conference-ai-war-alex-karp/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust a little note to anyone who might be working at Palantir: fuck you, you fucking Nazi.
Thank you for your attention.
@heiseonline@social.heise.dePalantir im NHS England: Sorge vor Datenmacht und politischem Missbrauch
Die NGOs Medact und Amnesty kritisieren Palantirs NHS-Vertrag wegen Überwachungrisiken. Der Vertrag läuft 2027 aus.
https://ww…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir won a three-month, £30K /week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imPalantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.
“And so these disruptions are gonna disru…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan blocks the Met police's £50M Palantir deal to automate intelligence analysis, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Souveränität: Verfassungsschutz kauft europäische Palantir-Alternative
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Russian spies hijack Signal and WhatsApp accounts in campaign targeting officials and journalists,
--Supply chain attack compromised Trivy vulnerability scanner,
--UK Financial Conduct Authority gave Palantir access to sensitive data,
--Hackers stole $23m in Ether from DeFi protocol Resolv Labs,
--Bluenoroff group stole 18.5k purchase re…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001
Hey, Blender, I hear Palantir also has some blood money to invest in whitewashing their reputation. Want me to put you guys in touch or are you already talking?
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Palantir-Chef Karp: "Wir unterstützen Kriegsführung und sind sehr stolz darauf"
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-demos-show-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Souveränität: Verfassungsschutz kauft europäische Palantir-Alternative
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/116429883958535292
“Your AI technology from Palantir kills Palestinians.”
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “Mostly terrorists, that’s true.”
Fuck you, Alex. I hope someone wipes that smug smile off your face one day, you …
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Palantir-Chef Karp: „Wir unterstützen Kriegsführung und wir sind stolz darauf“
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Palantir-Chef Karp: „Wir unterstützen Kriegsführung und wir sind stolz darauf“
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialPrivacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/19/ex-p…
@cdarwin@c.imAI might disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats.
To be clear: that assessment isn’t coming from me
Rather, it’s coming from one of the key architects of our glorious AI-driven economy: Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of tech firm Palantir.
On Thursday Karp sat down with CNBC to chat about Palantir’s AI-driven Maven Smart System,
which the US military is using to visualize potential targets and “nominate” them to…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastox.eu/@FranceskAlbs/116651907605129045
A person with integrity who understands what legitimisation is.
So few in the tech world where folks will speak and partake in “human rights” and “democracy” conferences sponsored by Palantir, Goo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEdra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/two-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/palantir-ce
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d6f924d-2e7e-4a5e-ae20-d4f8e29a7d17
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir staffer Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, opposition from super PAC Leading the Future, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-new-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLeaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentago…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/snowflake-snow-software-stock-rally.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialExecs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/for-palantir-ai-is-…
