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Links 6/5/2026
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Toobit Spotlights SpaceX Zone with 200,000 USDT Rewards and 50% Fee Discounts
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, June 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toobit, the award-winning global cryptocurrency exchange, today announces the launch of a new trading campaign centered around its curated SpaceX Zone, a collection of assets bridging traditional …
Corporate Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Reap $50B in Government Contracts, Watchdog Finds
Public Citizen found that 14 of the 27 publicly known corporate donors to the $400 million ballroom project have secured additional federal business since. The post Corporate Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Reap $50B in Government Contracts, Watchdog Finds first a…
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing
"The US spy-tech biz will also handle Home Office licensing for explosives, explosive precursors, and poisons. The contract covers a replacement for the National Firearms Licensing Management System (NFLMS), which has been in use since the mid-2000s."Palantir…
From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line
Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond
Neo4j's GraphAware acquisition targets new customer segment
The purchase adds analysis capabilities for government agencies that work on top of the vendor's graph database, expanding its target audience to include analysts.
Palantir boss says calls for tech firm to be dumped from NHS are 'irresponsible' and could harm patient care
UK Palanatir chief Louis Mosley launched a robust defence of his under-fire firm after a report by a group of MPs called for the Government to cancel its £330million deal with the health service.
UK urged to end contract with US AI-firm Palantir
British lawmakers called Wednesday for the government to end a contract between the country's National Health Service and AI giant Palantir, warning of an over-reliance on US data providers. The British MPs called on the government to use a break clause next …
Ross Fubini wrote Anduril’s first check. Here’s what he’s looking for in defense tech.
XYZ Venture Capital founder and managing partner Ross Fubini joins Equity to discuss the new wave of new startups is chasing government contracts, and what separates the survivors from the rest.
Defense tech is flooded with money, but who's built to last? | TechCrunch
Watch as XYZ Venture Capital founder and early Anduril backer Ross Fubini joins Equity to discuss the defense tech boom and what separates the startups that win government contracts from those that don't.
UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract
Another monster tech contract in the works for one of the usual suspects
Reindustrialize Summit Unites Business, Government + Policy Leaders to Accelerate American Industrial Dominance
Under Secretary Emil Michael, Doug Petno, Shyam Sankar, Alexis Ohanian and dozens more leaders will gather to discuss major advances strengthening US investment across AI, materials and energy, the American worker and national security DETROIT, June 2, 2026 /…
Rampant Kleptocracy Feeds Wealth Inequality In A Crumbling American Empire
Government spending is out of control, robbing the American people blind to fund the endless excess of a ruling class drunk on power. Kleptocracy: [klep-tok-ruh-see] / klɛpˈtɒk rə si / – noun – “A government or state in which those in power exploit national r…
Former DOGE duo launches AI company as a ‘DOGE for the private sector’
The pair behind the venture, Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, are named defendants in a lawsuit over the mass cancellation of humanities grants that the government recently lost.
How Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies
President Donald Trump tried to create a near $1.8 billion fund that could be funneled to his supporters as a means of settling a lawsuit he filed against his own government — even arguing that he “gave up a lot of money in allowing" it. After drawing ou…
Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract
A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contract with the American company.The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee singled out Palantir…