[leonidasrup]

In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s investment arm, was early investor into Palantir.

"The company has found itself at the center of a topic that has become especially important for the United States: how to use AI in defense, intelligence and government management. Palantir has historically been close to this market. Its early investor was In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s investment arm, and its largest customers for a long time were U.S. government agencies and the military. That connection has become even stronger: last year, Palantir had nearly $900 million in contracts with the Pentagon, and earlier the company received a U.S. Army contract worth up to $10 billion over 10 years."

https://tradersunion.com/news/editors-picks/show/1992613-pal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir

[OrvalWintermute]

The same could be said about Oracle though, that they received the benfits of early investment by the CIA.

However scary Oracle license auditors are though, no one conflates them with the CIA.

We're now in an era where people are actively trying to compare a contractor doing some type of IT support, to a company.

[leonidasrup]

Palantir is de-facto military contractor and the Palantir CEO knows it.

"“Our product is used, on occasion, to kill people,” Karp said in an interview with news website Axios in 2020."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwSTuDa9RY

https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/inside-palant...

[OrvalWintermute]

That is hyperbole as Palantir doesn’t pull the trigger

We could easily say: Microsoft, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Apple, Google, openAI, Amazon & Meta are all defense contractors too

[leonidasrup]

Could Palantir be compared with Raytheon? A major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. Raytheon makes air traffic control systems, radars and sensors, satellite sensors, missile defense systems, missiles.