Halloween is coming, but is anything scarier than Palantir? If you're searching for a terrifying outfit this Halloween, consider a Palantir t shirt. The company claims to create data fusion platforms to help organizations analyze real world data, but it's best known for producing code that kills.
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Halloween is coming, but is anything scarier than Palantir? If you're searching for a terrifying outfit this Halloween, consider a Palantir t-shirt. The company claims to create data fusion platforms to help organizations analyze real world data, but it's best known for producing code that kills.
Providing data analytics and intelligence software for military and government organizations, including the CIA, which provided its initial funding*. "Saving lives and on occasion taking lives is super interesting," Palantir's CEO recently gushed to the New York Times. It's a jarring statement, and it's at odds with the gestalt of the wider communications industry, which has traditionally acted as a facilitator of positive societal change, selling products like switches, routers, cloud infrastructure, and 5G networks that simply carry information.