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The potential new Labour leaders, ranked from most to least terrible
The potential leadership challenge offers a rogue’s gallery of smarmy weasels, shameless sellouts, ineffectual has-beens, and someone is who kind of OK
Streeting resigns as Health Secretary: DAUK response
The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has responded to the resignation of health secretary Wes Streeting. DAUK notes that in his statement, Streeting cited the government’s unpopularity. However, many NHS staff...
The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.
HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority’s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intelligence to detect fraud, fix errors, and close the tax gap. The c…
UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos
Doctors welcome joined-up care plan, but warn patient trust depends on safeguards, access controls, and knowing where Palantir fits in
Alex Karp is gobsmacked that Germany's military is snubbing Palantir
CEO Alex Karp expressed surprise at the German military's stance on Palantir and made the case for Ukrainian defense technologies.
Palantir may have found its next growth engine outside Washington
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is a name commanding significant attention on Wall Street today. The reason is the reputation built on the back of government...
‘F*ck You, You Go!’ Joe Rogan Sounds Off on Call to Bring Back the Draft
Joe Rogan sounded off Thursday about tech company Palantir calling on the federal government to bring back the military draft for Americans. The post ‘F*ck You, You Go!’ Joe Rogan Sounds Off on Call to Bring Back the Draft first appeared on Mediaite.
Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.
Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week…
Ready or Not, AI Government is Already Here
AI's reach in government services is already bigger than most realize and is set to grow considerably.
Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
HN Discussion — 62 comments · 196 points.
The U.S.-China Tech Race, Resource Wars, and the Cost of Militarization
Last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth urged Congress to pass a 2027 Pentagon budget of 1.5 trillion dollars. He justified the increase by saying we need a modernized, high-tech military to counter China. [This Pentagon budget is separate … The post The U.…
Sift Names Co-Founder Austin Spiegel as CEO and Opens San Francisco Office
Senior leaders from Meta, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Grafana Labs, SpaceX, and Palantir join Sift's 80-person team scaling across aerospace, defense, and autonomy. MARINA DEL REY, Calif., May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sift, the data infrastructure platform fo…
What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir?
Palantir, the data analysis defense contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, was named after the magical seeing stones from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. This video compares the ethos of
Chevron Sells Singapore Refinery Stake to Eneos
Chevron struck a deal with Eneos to sell it its 50% interest in Singapore Refining Company. The Japanese energy major will pay close to $2.2 billion for the stake, media reported. As part of the deal, Eneos will also acquire other Chevron assets across Southe…
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
HN Discussion — 13 comments · 80 points.
UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
HN Discussion — 67 comments · 190 points. <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/" rel="nofollow">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-pal...</a>
Watchdog Sues Trump Interior Dept, Demanding Transparency on Freedom 250 Funding
As the 250th anniversary of the United States' independence approaches, a government watchdog group is warning that the Trump administration has refused to release key documents regarding President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 project, in which the White House …
NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data
A leaked internal briefing note describes a new admin role on the £330m Federated Data Platform that lets external staff bypass case-by-case data approvals. Patient groups and Labour MPs have called the change dangerous. NHS England has decided to allow exter…