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If one company pulled the plug tonight, hospitals would fail, supply chains would freeze,
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and military operations could go dark. It’s not Google. Or Microsoft.
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It’s Palantir Technologies. While everyone was distracted
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by ChatGPT writing essays and emails, Palantir became the hidden operating
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system behind the U.S. military, the UK’s NHS, and critical infrastructure across the West.
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People might think Palantir is just a creepy data company.
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It’s not. Palantir doesn’t want your
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data. It wants to run the real world. And the terrifying part…
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It already does. Chapter 1 – The 48-Hour Collapse
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It might sound dramatic, but Palantir has the ability to cripple nations.
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In the UK, Palantir is woven into the very fabric of the country’s public healthcare
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infrastructure. If they pulled their software, hospital administrators lose
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access to critical emergency systems that allow them to control the flow of patients.
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Clinics would lose their ability to predict risk, prioritize patients,
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and move people through care fast enough to save lives. Staff would be forced to fall
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back on slower electronic health record systems as waiting rooms filled and pressure mounted.
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Meanwhile, major shipping ports and logistics hubs across the world would begin to choke.
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Essential goods, like groceries, would face massive delays. Routing optimization would
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break down, causing global chaos. Even in active combat zones,
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the effects would be felt. Tactical intelligence streams would
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freeze, leaving front-line commanders blind to incoming threats. They would
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This is just a taste of how far Palantir’s tendrils spread.
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It underscores the unprecedented level of power and influence this company has
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amassed, behind the scenes. Because so many people still
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misunderstand what this company truly is. They think it’s some sort of rogue data broker.
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A shadowy entity lurking in the background of the internet, vacuuming up private
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information and selling it to the highest bidder. But that’s not what makes Palantir dangerous.
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Palantir is, in fact, much more of an interpreter than a collector.
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It’s not in the business of owning, storing, harvesting,
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or even monetizing consumer data in the traditional sense. Instead,
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it builds the structural pipelines, algorithmic engines, and advanced user interfaces that allow
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businesses to understand the vast and complicated databases they collate. That
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matters more than you might think, because we live in an increasingly data-oriented world.
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One that has passed a critical threshold… the ‘Complexity Point of No Return.’
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The systems that modern society relies on to keep billions of people alive have become so complex
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that we can no longer manage them alone. There’s simply too much data to deal with.
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That’s the vacuum Palantir has stepped into. Sure, it doesn’t own that data, but it does
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own the software that makes it readable, manageable, and useful.
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It built something most governments and corporations
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realized they couldn’t function without… A system capable of making sense of chaos.
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This, in turn, helped it become one of the most powerful companies on the
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planet. And it all began with one of the worst intelligence failures of all time.
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Chapter 2 – The 9/11 Ghost To understand how this invisible system
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embedded itself deep inside the Western world’s infrastructure, we have to go back to one of the
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darkest days in modern history. September 11, 2001.
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The day of the deadliest ever terror attack, when almost 3,000 lives were lost.
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In the wake of the World Trade Center’s collapse, one all-important question
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echoed throughout the halls of newsrooms, government offices, and intelligence agencies:
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could the attack have been prevented? U.S. intelligence agencies had all the
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data it needed to figure out exactly what the terrorists had planned. In the days and weeks
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leading up to the attack, the NSA had intercepted communications involving known operatives. The
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FBI had field notes about suspicious individuals attending flight schools. The CIA had obtained
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numerous pieces of intelligence that effectively laid out the entire plot.
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They knew terrorists were considering using planes as weapons. They knew Osama bin Laden was planning
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a massive attack. And intelligence agencies had even identified some of the future hijackers
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weeks before 9/11 happened. The clues were all there.
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But they couldn’t connect the dots. There were too many.
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Analysts at the FBI could see one piece. The CIA saw another. Nobody was able to put
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everything together and understand the magnitude of what was about to happen.
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Until it was too late. The failure wasn’t down to a
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lack of intelligence, but a lack of integration. If the various agencies’ systems had been better
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connected, thousands of lives might have been saved. That sort of thing couldn’t be allowed to
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happen again. A solution had to be found. Enter, Palantir.
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Founded by Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, and a small team of engineers, the company set out
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to create a system that could pull fragmented signals into a single environment. A system
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that could integrate enormous amounts of data, from different sources into a single platform.
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Users would have a God-like view of whatever they were analyzing.
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All of a sudden, spotting patterns and mapping networks was easier than it had ever been. But
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catching terrorists was just the beta test. The real breakthrough was figuring out how
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to make a computer understand the physical world. Chapter 3 – The Digital Twin: What Is an Ontology?
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Behind Palantir Technologies’s rise is a deceptively simple idea called the ‘Ontology.’
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And to understand why it matters, you first need to understand the corporate world’s favorite
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solution to overwhelming information… The Data lake.
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Aptly named, it’s like a vast digital reservoir where companies can effectively dump all their
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data. It doesn’t matter where it comes from, what format it’s in, or whether it’s ‘structured’ or
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‘unstructured’. It all goes into the lake. That can include everything from server logs
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to social media data, images, videos, text files, financial databases, and much more.
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That comes with obvious limitations. Data lakes are great for storing massive amounts
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of information. But the moment you actually try to use that data, everything starts to break down.
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Because most data lakes eventually become data swamps
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They’re murky and messy, made up of millions of rows of text and numbers,
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but without any explanation of what those symbols mean.
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Palantir wanted to change that. So it came up with the Ontology.
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It’s a digital twin or clone of a company’s operations. All of the company’s disconnected
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data points are organized into specific categories of objects, actions, properties, and links.
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While data lakes collate information into endless, incomprehensible rows of text and numbers,
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the Ontology organizes it into real-world terms that people can actually understand. When a user
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logs into Palantir’s interface, they don’t see dense spreadsheets or lines of abstract code.
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They see intuitive visual ecosystems of interconnected nodes.
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A hospital administrator might see objects labeled ‘Bed’ or ‘Patient,’ with links
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connecting them together. It helps them visualize patients moving through their facilities and feel
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more in control of their operations. A military commander will see labels
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like ‘Target,’ ‘Drone,’ and ‘Munitions,’ making it much easier for them to plan their
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next steps based on real battlefield data. In short, the Ontology brings data to life.
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It gives it meaning, making it easier to understand and far more valuable for
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the people and entities that need it. This is why Palantir’s own executives
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have described the company’s platforms as operating systems. It’s not something you
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use on top of your systems, but something that sits underneath everything else, connecting
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it all together. Everything gets stitched together into a single live model of reality.
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This military-grade logic was theoretical for the civilian world.
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That was until a global catastrophe forced the private sector to adopt it.
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Chapter 4 – Operation Warp Speed: The Civilian Proof
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Today, Palantir is one of the biggest businesses in the world.
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But for the first decade of its operations, very few people had even heard of the company.
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It mainly existed in the classified sector, where it was seen as a specialized tool with
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a specific purpose: helping military intelligence and counter-terrorism
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agencies find threats and prevent tragedies. In 2013, the company’s client list was short,
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but stacked with some of the most powerful agencies in the world: The NSA. FBI. CIA.
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U.S. Air Force. Marine Corps. Even West Point. Then came another pivotal moment in modern
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history that would shape the future of Palantir and the entire world as
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we know it: the COVID-19 global pandemic As a deadly new virus swept across the planet,
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the United States government was faced with one of the most complex logistical
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challenges of all time: Operation Warp Speed. The objective was to distribute literally hundreds
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of millions of doses of the highly volatile and temperature-sensitive COVID-19 vaccine.
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It’s impossible to overstate the enormity of this challenge or the quantity of data
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involved. The vaccines had to move at the right times to the right places and reach
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the people who needed them the most. Much of that data was spread out across
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systems and silos that weren’t just separate, but historically incompatible with one another.
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But Palantir provided a solution: Tiberius. Designed specifically for the US Department
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of Health and Human Services (HHS) for managing the logistics and distribution of
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the COVID-19 vaccines, Tiberius integrated data feeds from 50 states, 8 territories,
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and thousands of private pharmacies. It was effectively responsible for
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merging 50 different jigsaw puzzles into a single image, all in real-time.
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This was the moment of truth for Palantir. Its time to shine and prove that it wasn’t
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merely for military applications, but could also deliver unprecedented
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value to the civilian economy, as well. The company passed with flying colors.
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Tiberius did exactly what it set out to do, combining public health, demographic,
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and inventory data from numerous agencies, states, and private partners. It provided the
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necessary insight and tools for jurisdictions to track shipments, prevent bottlenecks,
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and organize their allocations of the vaccine. It tracked every vial from the production
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plant to the patient’s arm, overseeing the distribution of nearly a billion doses in total.
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This was just the start of Palantir’s hot streak. While Tiberius proved the company’s software could
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save lives at scale, its next deployment proved it could also take them with unprecedented speed.
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Chapter 5 – The 3-Minute Kill Chain Scouts identify a potential enemy target. Drones
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are dispatched to confirm the target’s identity and pinpoint its exact location. They monitor
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its movement in real-time, while appropriate armaments are selected to take the target out.
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Command issues the order, and the chosen weapon is fired.
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The target is dead. This is an example of the
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kill chain. The sequence of events that make up a standard military strike. In the past,
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those events could take hours or even days to play out. Those relatively lengthy time frames
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were largely down to data-related issues. It took time for information to travel between systems and
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people, which delayed decisions. It gave targets time to escape or disappear from radar screens.
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But on the battlefields of Eastern Europe, the kill chain timeline has been dramatically reduced.
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Because of Palantir. The Russian invasion of Ukraine presented
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Palantir with an opportunity that aligned with its original military-oriented ambitions.
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Ukraine was a much smaller country with a much weaker army than its opponent. In a conventional
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conflict, experts estimated it had almost 0% chance of success. The only way it was going
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to survive, let alone have any chance of winning the war, was by rewriting the rules of engagement.
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Palantir made that possible. It gave Kyiv software that allowed it
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to reduce the kill chain to less than 3 minutes. The entire loop of identifying and eliminating
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an enemy asset now occurs faster than the time it takes to microwave a frozen meal.
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The way it does this is, in many ways, similar to how it was used for Operation Warp Speed.
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Palantir’s platform automatically, receives, processes, and unifies data from a diverse
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range of military sources. It can drone feeds, thermal sensors, encrypted radio communications,
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and satellite images. The system is constantly collating, centralizing and automatically
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analyzing that data. It then helps operators identify targets, highlight anomalies, and
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decide on the most appropriate actions to attack. It does this while keeping in mind an array of
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additional factors, such as real-time weather conditions and ammunition inventory levels.
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It’s like an all-in-one military mission control system. And it does this without
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ever fully taking over the kill chain process. That’s an important distinction. People have
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long feared that AI is destined to replace human decision-makers in the military. It
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will usher in a new era of warfare in which AI agents are battling it out with one another.
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In reality, Palantir’s platform is more of a ‘human in the loop’ system. The AI’s role is
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to drown out the noise of excess information, feeding humans the precise data points to make
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1,000 informed decisions per hour, rather than 10. But this type of 'war-speed' decision-making
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was never going to stay exclusively on the battlefield.
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Corporations wanted that exact same power over their markets.
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Chapter 6 – The Corporate Nervous System By this point, Palantir’s platform wasn’t
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merely a pipe dream or potential success. It was a proven solution, with an impressive
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track record of successes in both defense and national crisis management.
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The only question left was where it would be deployed next. The answer soon appeared.
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The retail sector. Pivoting to the private sector,
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Palantir extended the same predictive, operational logic technology into the day-to-day workflows of
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Coles, a major Australian supermarket chaim. Holding a 27% market share, this is one of the
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biggest names in the Australian grocery market. Its executives intended to cement the firm’s
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status by incorporating Palantir’s technology to streamline workforce and inventory management.
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That’s exactly what happened. Palantir’s platform now processes 10 billion
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rows of data on a daily basis across over 840 Coles stores. To put that into perspective,
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that’s more than enough data points to give every single person on the planet their very
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own personalized shopping list. Every day.
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By combining historical data, like past sales trends and purchasing patterns, with
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live operational information, Palantir’s program lets store managers react in real time. Staffing
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shifts get adjusted. Deliveries get rerouted and optimized. It dictates how a store runs, moment by
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moment, right down to the smallest detail. But the company didn’t stop there.
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It continued to spread its roots across the globe, seeking out new opportunities and
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additional industries to expand into. In the United Kingdom, Palantir’s
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technology was rolled out throughout the NHS to deal with backlogs and streamline
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patient waiting lists. It consolidated patient records and other information,
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like consultant schedules and operating room availability, into a single, unified engine.
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As a result, the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust subsequently reported a 28% reduction in inpatient
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waiting lists after switching to Palantir Foundry. That’s the equivalent of shrinking a line of
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10,000 waiting people down to just 7,200. It’s an impressive statistic, and one
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that Palantir has since highlighted as a proven metric of its platform’s impact.
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However, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has since questioned this figure’s validity.
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It raised the question of whether this reduction was entirely down to Palantir
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or the result of a broader range of factors, like post-pandemic resets.
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Either way, the core structural trend is clear to see. From grocery stores to hospitals,
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more and more industries and institutions are embracing Palantir’s predictive policing logic.
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And when that happens – when supermarkets and clinics plug
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their entire existence into Palantir's brain - a new, permanent problem emerges.
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Chapter 7 – The Ontology Trap The reason Palantir’s platform
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is able to roll out so swiftly and seamlessly comes down to something called the Artificial
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Intelligence Platform (AIP) Bootcamp. In the past, selling large-scale enterprise
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software to Fortune 500 companies or nationwide organizations was a long and drawn-out process.
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It could involve sales cycles lasting anywhere from 6 to 9 months. There were endless marketing
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meetings, sales presentations, technical consultations, security reviews, and more.
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Through its AIP Bootcamps, Palantir managed to condense that process down to 5 days.
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Here’s how it works. Palantir invites an organization’s engineers
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and executives into an intensive 5-day integration program. During that period, the organization’s
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data is gathered from an array of fragmented streams and into the singular AIP platform.
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Palantir’s software then constructs a working, fully functional ontology of the business
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by the end of the week. The client can walk out the door with a customized and entirely
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operational AI interface that can seemingly solve problems they’ve been struggling with for years.
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It’s hardly surprising, then, that so many companies finish their bootcamps believing they’ve
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made the smartest investments for their futures. But this ultra-rapid deployment cycle
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conceals a secret trap. The moment an institution
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agrees to map its workflows, teams, and logistics into Palantir’s ontology layer,
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something subtle happens. It stops being just another external tool and starts becoming
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the structure everything else is built on. From that point on, the business is effectively
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locked into the Palantir ecosystem for good. Any workflows, AI models,
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or executive decisions it makes or deploys will be built on top of the ontology itself.
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So, let’s say that a company decides it wants to terminate its contract with Palantir a few months
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down the line. It can’t just export its data and walk away, because even though Palantir doesn’t
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own that data, it owns the logic, the context, and the connections that make it make sense.
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It operates the vast data governance system that the company has come to rely on. Migrating away
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from that would effectively be like trying to remove someone’s entire central nervous system.
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In short, Palantir has created a system in which it can control the operations of the
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world’s most powerful institutions. And why are we allowing one
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company to hold this much power? Because we no longer have a choice.
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Chapter 8 – The Complexity Gap (The Root Cause) Some companies rise to the top of the rankings
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through a mixture of smart marketing, aggressive sales tactics, or even political favoritism.
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And while Palantir benefited from aggressive Washington lobbying and early political alliances,
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the deeper reason behind its rise isn’t political at all. It’s down to a problem that’s been
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building across modern society for decades… The Complexity Gap.
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Technology has evolved at a faster rate than people are able to keep up with.
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The sheer speed and volume of global data has utterly outpaced our ability to process it all.
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It doesn’t matter how intelligent someone is or how much experience they have, they're still
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constrained by the limits of human biology. No one can comprehend the countless data points and
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real-time variables endlessly shifting across global networks. The tools we used to deal with
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data are no longer good enough. There’s only so far you can push outdated database architectures
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and Excel spreadsheets, after all. If humanity continued down that path,
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without any changes, the consequences could be catastrophic. The volume and
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complexity of data continues to grow, and our ability to make sense of it all continues to
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diminish. It adds up to systemic blindness and unparalleled operational inefficiencies.
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In effect, society’s rapid rate of progress has created a terrifying necessity for some sort of AI
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orchestration layer to oversee everything. We need help to manage it all and maintain the massive
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logistical networks we rely on every day. Palantir is that layer.
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That’s what makes it so much more than a corporate vendor, selling a helpful but optional piece of
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software. Instead, it has become a fundamental facilitator of Western society as we know it,
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a deeply embedded cog in the modern data machine. It’s what stops modern systems from buckling
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beneath the weight of their own data. And if you remove it, the entities and
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industries it powers won't simply slow down or lose a little of their efficiency. While
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they wouldn’t completely collapse, they would suffer a massive drop in efficiency.
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And this brings us to the ultimate moral question, posed by the man who built it all.
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Chapter 9 – The Philosopher King While Palantir actually had five co-founders,
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Alex Karp has emerged as the enigmatic and often controversial figurehead of the company.
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Karp is something of an outlier in Silicon Valley circles. He’s not a lifelong tech enthusiast,
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nor is he a proponent of the belief that big tech is destined to make the world a better place.
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Instead, he has more of a Hobbesian worldview and has argued that the world is a dangerous
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place. It’s filled with near-constant geopolitical friction, with the threat
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of war and collapse never too far away. To combat and counteract those dangers,
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Karp argues, software like Palantir is a vital necessity. He believes it’s perhaps the most
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important weapon for defending Western democratic values and preventing complete systemic collapse.
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His defense of Palantir ties into a broader philosophical question facing society today. What
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happens when humans can’t keep up anymore? Is a constantly watching, constantly optimizing ‘Shadow
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AI’ layer a form of quiet authoritarian control… Or is it the only thing preventing modern
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society from plunging into chaos Karp would argue for the latter,
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claiming that we are already past the point of worrying about individual privacy or
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data-driven states. Instead must choose between either human-led chaos or AI-managed order.
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This, he argues, is the reality we’ve made, and it’s the one we must adapt to.
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In our pursuit of making everything faster, smarter, more efficient, and more profitable,
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we’ve forged a reality that is far too complicated for human minds to manage alone,
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forcing us to hand over the keys to a machine we can never unplug.
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Palantir’s effect can be felt all over the world. But it isn’t alone. There are more
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shadow entities that affect our lives on a daily basis. Find out more in ‘The
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