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France’s spy agency drops Palantir
France’s spy agency ended its contract with US-based software giant Palantir and replaced it with a domestic rival. Europe’s tech sovereignty concerns have risen after the US government blocked foreign nationals’ access to Anthropic’s frontier models. Palanti…
“Step One, Find the Billionaire Money. Step Two, Take the Billionaire Money”: A Conversation With Alexis Goldstein
Sarah Leonard The Maryland congressional Candidate is running to ban data centers, abolish ICE, and get back what the rich have stolen. The post “Step One, Find the Billionaire Money. Step Two, Take the Billionaire Money”: A Conversation With Alexis …
Hundreds of Stanford students walked out of their grad ceremony to protest Google CEO’s commencement speech. It wasn’t all about AI
Sundar Pichai was careful to not address AI directly in his speech, concerned with backlash. Protesters were mad about something else.
How Big AI money is shaping the marquee Manhattan congressional primary
Assemblymember Alex Bores speaks with supporters of his campaign to represent Upper Manhattan in Congress. Super PACs have poured nearly $30 million into the race, with a large chunk of that connected to Assemblymember Alex Bores’ stance on AI. [ more › ]
Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion
Experts have welcomed the UK government's decision to review its contract with Palantir to provide software central to tackling the elective care backlog. The US spy-tech biz has, for some, been a controversial presence at the heart of the National Health Ser…
Your guide to voting in NYC congressional and state comptroller primaries
It's time to vote. Voting begins Saturday in an unusually competitive slate of congressional primaries with big implications for the Democratic Party's future. [ more › ]
Nearly 100 Billionaires Donate to Collins in Race That May Decide Senate Control
The donors’ net worth is $888 billion, nearly nine times Maine’s entire 2025 economic output. None are Maine residents.
‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances.
Palantir loses lawsuit disputing story of how Swiss govt rejected its services
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Palantir to sue London Mayor
Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan after mayor blocks £50 million Met Police deal “Palantir is preparing to sue London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan after he blocked a £50 million deal with the Metropolitan Police.” ‘However, Sir Sadiq blocked the deal citing concerns abo…
UK reviewing Palantir's NHS contract amid pressure to use break clause
Britain is reviewing a major contract with American firm Palantir for the National Health Service. The government must decide by early 2027 whether to continue the deal. Concerns about patient data privacy and reliance on a foreign supplier are central to the…
Palantir CEO pitches company as solution to AI spending concerns
Palantir's intermediary AI approach could reshape enterprise spending, emphasizing outcome-based investments and reducing vendor dependency. The post Palantir CEO pitches company as solution to AI spending concerns appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Managing Elasticsearch Reindex at Scale: Performance, Reliability, and Observability
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series exploring how Palantir customizes infrastructure software for reliable operation at scale. The following is a guest contribution to the Foundations series from the Gotham Core Platform organization, which builds and maintains the bedrock for mission-critical applications within the Gotham ecosystem. This blog post by Kevin Liang, a backend developer based in CA, highlights the design considerations and improvements made to the Elasticsearch reindex machinery — which broadly aims to provide an easy-to-use, performant, reliable, and observable way to repair and rebuild search indices for backend applications. The goal of this post is two-fold: share our design decisions and learnings with the broader technical community, and shed light on what a typical project looks like for a systems-leaning backend engineer working in Gotham Core Platform at Palantir. Search is one of the most heavily used workflows across Palantir Gotham.
If I Were Chuck Schumer
With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses of power—recently, the president has attempted to deal himself and his cronies billions in taxpayer doll…
Senate Bill to Fund ICE and CBP Contains Zero Reforms to ICE
This rewards agencies “that have terrorized communities across the country,” said Amnesty International.
OpenGradient launches privacy-first generative AI platform
NEW YORK, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- People now bring their most consequential questions to AI: a worrying symptom, a tax decision, a legal bind, the thing they would never say out loud. But the assistants they ask were built to remember. Messages get tied …
GOP Lawmakers Accuse China of Bankrolling US Data Center Protests
A group of lawmakers asks FBI Director Kash Patel and White House advisors for details on 'a disinformation campaign that seeks to block critical infrastructure investments.' As protests over AI data center construction grow and intensify, so does suspicion t…
Democrats spar over big tech during debate for coveted congressional district in Manhattan
Democrats competing over a coveted congressional district in Manhattan have slugged it out during a heated debate