Palantir

Palantir Technologies  (PLTR) - Get Palantir Technologies Report shares on Tuesday rocketed following its announcement that the U.S. Army awarded it an $823 million contract to deliver its intelligence data fabric and analytics foundation to modernize Army intelligence. Palantir’s stock jumped by almost 14% to $26.44 in after-hours trading. Shares had…

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) instructs officers to collect social media account information and email addresses when they interview people they have detained, according to documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. The Brennan Center filed public records requests with LAPD and…

The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has terminated a data deal regarding adult social care with the controversial US ‘spy tech’ company Palantir following criticism from privacy campaigners. The department published a document last month stating that it was looking for a company to migrate data on adult…

Palantir says it’s preparing for a black swan event with its massive gold purchase this month. Bloomberg reports the company also accepts bitcoin and gold as payment, but no one has paid in either. The Peter Thiel cloud computing company is also interested in accumulating bitcoin, Per a recently report:…

Following the class-action lawsuit between Apple and app developers, the company has agreed to change several App Store rules, including allowing developers to email users “about payment methods outside of their iOS app” — think Netflix and Spotify offering subscription setups through the internet browser, all without Apple taking a…

Reading Time: 2 minutes A bug in the Palantir supposedly led to the FBI accessing the social media data of Virgil Griffith Griffith is accused of helping North Korean officials circumnavigate U.S. sanctions through cryptocurrency The software was left on default settings which allowed FBI officials to effectively spy on…

Data-mining firm Palantir invested $25 million in Faraday Future shortly before the electric vehicle startup became a publicly traded company in July, according to a previously unreported Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) document filed late last week. In addition, Faraday Future signed a commercial contract to use Palantir’s software, according…

Peter Thiel’s AI company Palantir, whose clients have included the CIA and US immigration agency ICE, is back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A new report claims a glitch in its secretive software program used by the FBI allowed unauthorized personnel to access private data for more…

UK-based independent political website, openDemocracy has revealed that Palantir Technologies made £22 million in profits last year after winning controversial deals with the NHS. Furthermore, since the start of 2020, Palantir has been awarded more than £46 million in public contracts by the UK government and the NHS. WHY IT…

While some companies such as Tesla are diversifying into bitcoin, data analytics software company Palantir is betting on gold. Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August, the company disclosed in its latest earnings statement. The move reflects a growing company stashing cash in an unconventional asset in response…