Alex Karp

Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine

2022-06-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On June 1, 2022, Palantir CEO Alex Karp crossed the border from Poland into Ukraine and met President Volodymyr Zelensky in the presidential palace bunker, becoming the first major Western tech CEO to visit since Russia’s February invasion. Karp told Zelensky they could work together “in …

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Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers

2003-05-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Palantir Technologies was officially incorporated in May 2003 by Peter Thiel and PayPal alumni, just months after Congress defunded DARPA’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program due to privacy concerns. The founders met with John Poindexter, the recently fired director of Total Information …

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