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Opinion May 21, 2026 5 mins Neurodivergent people are AI’s most demanding users. That makes them its most valuable builders, too. Earlier this year, Alex Karp, CEO of software company Palantir, said there are two paths to a successful future in the age of AI: vocational training or being neurodivergent.…

President Donald Trump is so wealthy he doesn’t need to trade stocks himself, argued Vice President JD Vance, after the President’s ethics report last week revealed a flurry of stock trading in an account held in Trump’s name. During an hour-long press conference Tuesday, Vance defended Trump, following criticism that…

May. 19, 2026, 5:44 PM EDT Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week’s top stories from the intersection of politics and technology. GAO’s DOGE probe hampered Officials at some federal agencies are reportedly stonewalling the Government Accountability Office’s investigation into what sensitive information Elon Musk and other…

GOP Representative Thomas Massie’s chances of winning against challenger Ed Gallrein, who is backed by President Donald Trump, in the Republican primary for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District have plunged one day before the election. Massie had been the favorite on prediction markets. But early Monday, he had slipped to a…

U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump scooped up shares of artificial intelligence software maker Palantir weeks before he famously…

Donald Trump’s blatant corruption just got even more outrageous. A recent financial disclosure revealed that the president bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stocks in tech companies and government contractors, including Palantir and Nvidia, NOTUS reported Friday. On February 10, Donald Trump purchased between $1 million and $5…

TL;DR Palantir faces pressure on two fronts: retail investors dumped $82 million in shares in the week through 13 May as they rotated from AI software into semiconductor and memory stocks, while Germany’s military formally excluded the company from its defence cloud procurement. Palantir’s Q1 revenue hit $1.63 billion (up…

Inside FDP is an exclusive series of articles written by the former deputy director of data engineering at NHS England, Tom Bartlett, who led the 150-person team that built the Federated Data Platform (FDP), the controversial Palantir-supplied system linking data across the health and care service. This is the third…

Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s Palantir Technologies is one of the most powerful and mysterious tech companies in Silicon Valley. Its namesake is also one of the most powerful and mysterious magical objects in the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings. The palantiri of…

In late April, Palantir — the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — announced that it would be adding new products to its merch store. The latest offering was a cotton chore coat.…