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[00:00:09] This is understandable politics. Hello, today's topic is about a company that knows more about you
[00:00:13] than you know yourself. It reads your data, predicts your
[00:00:17] behavior, and decides who is foe, who is friend, and it decides not for
[00:00:21] itself, but for the most powerful intelligence agencies
[00:00:23] on the planet.
[00:00:28] Its name is Palantir Technologies. Most people on Earth have never
[00:00:32] heard of it, and that's exactly what it wants. What is so special about
[00:00:36] a company that is one of the most dangerous,
[00:00:39] mysterious, and influential in the world?
[00:01:41] Palantir is called the Big Brother and Uncle Sam's software.
[00:01:44] The company is attributed with many things, even surveillance of world
[00:01:48] leaders. In addition, total control over everyone, participation in
[00:01:51] the creation of biological and nuclear weapons, the ability
[00:01:55] to eliminate undesirable individuals. Its software has already decided who lives
[00:01:59] and who doesn't.
[00:02:04] A private IT company that has turned into a player who can practically do anything on
[00:02:08] the market for 23 years now. It was founded by a group of investors led by
[00:02:11] Peter Thiel, a successful IT entrepreneur in the USA.
[00:02:15] A billionaire, co-founder of PayPal, one of the first investors in Facebook,
[00:02:19] and a person whom Silicon Valley considers both
[00:02:22] a genius and a dangerous
[00:02:24] visionary.
[00:02:36] The creators of Palantir are people with a sense of humor. Palantir is an artifact from
[00:02:40] Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings universe, which is the name
[00:02:43] of a magical stone through which one can see everything: past,
[00:02:46] present, future, any point in the world. He who
[00:02:50] possesses a Palantir possesses information. He who possesses
[00:02:53] information possesses everything. Thiel,
[00:02:57] a libertarian, an outspoken supporter of Trump, and most importantly, a person
[00:03:00] who sincerely believes technology should serve
[00:03:03] national security.
[00:03:06] Since its inception, Palantir Technologies has been shrouded in scandals
[00:03:10] and conspiracy theories. Many of its contracts are classified, and
[00:03:13] the technical details of its systems' operations are kept secret.
[00:03:17] The company was founded in 2003 by Peter
[00:03:20] Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, and also Alex Karp, a Doctor of
[00:03:23] Philosophy and a graduate of Stanford Law School. They
[00:03:27] created a structure named after the all-seeing stones from The Lord of the
[00:03:31] Rings. Officially, for combating terrorism
[00:03:35] and protecting national security. Unofficially,
[00:03:38] as hackers claim, for secretly controlling
[00:03:41] the world.
[00:03:46] Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan
[00:03:50] Gettings founded the company based on technology developed within the PayPal
[00:03:54] payment system to combat fraud. The software
[00:03:57] was able to analyze huge volumes of
[00:04:00] shares and find connections between them. Thiel realized that this same concept
[00:04:04] could be applied in
[00:04:05] intelligence.
[00:04:10] Palantir was not born in a garage like Apple; it was born in the offices of
[00:04:13] Langley, the headquarters of the CIA. The first and main
[00:04:16] investor in the company was the venture fund In-Q-Tel, which is
[00:04:20] the investment fund of the CIA. In-Q-Tel was created in
[00:04:24] 1999 with the sole purpose of
[00:04:27] financing technology startups whose products
[00:04:31] could be used in intelligence and national security. The fund
[00:04:34] invested in dozens of companies, but Palantir is its main, most
[00:04:38] successful, most secret project. Initial investments
[00:04:41] amounted to about 2 million dollars. Today, this bet
[00:04:44] has brought a thousandfold return. The scheme is indecently
[00:04:47] simple. The CIA, through its fund, provides money at the start. The company
[00:04:51] grows, gets contracts from the very state that
[00:04:54] created it. Contracts are closed, sums are classified,
[00:04:58] details are state secrets. An ideal business, a business
[00:05:02] that is ideal. Many years ago, I had the honor of personally communicating with Peter
[00:05:05] Thiel, who is the creator of Technologies,
[00:05:08] and from the early 2000s...
[00:05:12] the company understood that artificial
[00:05:15] intelligence, programs related to data aggregation and
[00:05:19] compilation, were a very good business, because
[00:05:22] the United States, ever since the beginning
[00:05:25] of the PRISM program, very
[00:05:28] actively collected intelligence data,
[00:05:31] and naturally, a large number of analysts in
[00:05:35] Langley were forced to work with this data mass. And if we
[00:05:39] go to Langley Falls, where the CIA headquarters are,
[00:05:42] there was an entire wing occupied by analysts who spent huge
[00:05:46] budgets to predict certain
[00:05:49] events and risks. Initially,
[00:05:52] the CIA was the company's only customer. For 5 years, the software
[00:05:56] was tested on the world's most secret data. Today, the order portfolio
[00:05:59] speaks for itself. Almost half of the company's income comes from
[00:06:03] American security forces: the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, NSA, and
[00:06:07] other special services. Palantir's clients also include
[00:06:10] the US Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland
[00:06:13] Security, the US Air Force, the US Marine
[00:06:17] Corps, the Special Operations Command of the States, the US Military
[00:06:21] Academy, police departments across the country,
[00:06:24] the Israeli Armed Forces, and dozens of large corporations.
[00:06:28] The Pentagon alone, since 2008,
[00:06:30] has concluded contracts with Palantir for a total of over 2 billion
[00:06:34] dollars. But the Palantir octopus has enveloped not only the US and Israel. In
[00:06:38] December 2025, the company extended its agreement with the agency
[00:06:42] for internal intelligence in France. In January of this year, it signed a contract with
[00:06:46] the UK Ministry of Defense for 240 million
[00:06:50] pounds. In 2020, the company's shares
[00:06:53] were listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a capitalization of 16
[00:06:56] billion dollars. From this moment, Palantir's story became
[00:07:00] public. The firm's headquarters are located in Palo Alto,
[00:07:04] and representative offices are open in nine countries. Palantir's main
[00:07:07] product is artificial intelligence that collects, stitches together, and analyzes
[00:07:10] data from thousands of sources.
[00:07:42] that ended up in the hands of hackers, paint a different picture.
[00:07:46] Internet entrepreneur and former hacker Kim Dotcom on
[00:07:50] February 15th published a message on social network X, in
[00:07:53] which he claimed that the American IT corporation Palantir
[00:07:56] Technologies was allegedly subjected to a hacker attack using
[00:08:00] an AI agent who obtained maximum access to the company's
[00:08:04] systems.
[00:08:08] According to leaked materials, the company tracks not only potential
[00:08:12] terrorists, but also those who are considered the masters of
[00:08:16] the world. Analysts have at their disposal thousands of hours
[00:08:19] of transcribed conversations of Donald
[00:08:22] Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk. Moreover,
[00:08:26] it is alleged that company employees installed
[00:08:29] spyware into the onboard systems of airplanes,
[00:08:32] cars, and gadgets of world
[00:08:34] leaders. The goal is to create the largest
[00:08:38] archive of compromising material in history.
[00:08:42] lists other shocking findings by hackers. According to him, Palantir allegedly
[00:08:46] is responsible for most of the casualties among Palestinians in Gaza,
[00:08:50] as it participated in the development of surveillance systems for the Israeli army.
[00:08:53] However, he did not provide documentary evidence. With
[00:08:57] regard to the civilian population, Palantir allows for so-called
[00:09:01] preventive policing, within which, based on personal data,
[00:09:04] a virtual profile of a person is formed. Then this profile
[00:09:08] is compared with other profiles, including those of convicted
[00:09:11] criminals. Then the system gives a probabilistic assessment that
[00:09:15] the person may commit a crime in the future and gives
[00:09:18] police officers a recommendation to detain
[00:09:22] them. From the perspective of Western law enforcement practice,
[00:09:25] the idea of preventive policing sounds
[00:09:29] like unlawful nonsense, but this technology was essentially already
[00:09:33] tested by Israel during the punitive operation in the Gaza Strip. With
[00:09:36] the only caveat that the software there did not give
[00:09:40] recommendations to detain a potential criminal.
[00:10:12] for the elimination of these people was given by artificial intelligence, and
[00:10:16] as we can see, there were no problems
[00:10:19] to press the button
[00:10:23] to drop.
[00:10:25] a munition or attack the building where this person
[00:10:29] was found. The IDF had no issues; they killed people indiscriminately,
[00:10:32] but under the guise of this
[00:10:35] program and this artificial intelligence. Essentially, a private
[00:10:38] IT company has become a player capable of compiling dossiers on
[00:10:41] any person. According to hackers, Palantir, in close
[00:10:45] collaboration with the CIA, is developing biological
[00:10:48] and nuclear weapons for Ukraine. The company has two
[00:10:51] key software products: Gotham for law enforcement and government agencies,
[00:10:55] and Foundry for commercial companies. Gotham collects data about
[00:10:58] people with minute-by-minute accuracy: correspondence, contacts, movements,
[00:11:02] property, biometrics, even deleted files, eye
[00:11:05] color. If a person left a fingerprint or DNA anywhere,
[00:11:09] the program knows everything. The search capabilities are highly detailed, from
[00:11:12] identifying characteristics such as tattoos to
[00:11:16] indirect social connections or daily shopping
[00:11:19] habits. The main advantage of Palantir lies in its
[00:11:23] ability to remove barriers related to data fragmentation.
[00:11:27] Previously, tax records, immigration data,
[00:11:30] criminal records, and travel history were often stored in separate systems.
[00:11:34] Palantir integrated everything into a single environment. Here,
[00:11:38] raw data streams are transformed into living objects
[00:11:41] such as people, vehicles, or locations, which
[00:11:45] allows investigators to extract almost all data about
[00:11:48] an object. With just a few clicks, security
[00:11:52] personnel can access the network of
[00:11:55] relationships of any person, and this is not fiction, but
[00:11:58] the company's routine work. Today, Palantir's main client is
[00:12:02] the Pentagon. Gotham is a data analysis application.
[00:12:05] For example, for the FBI to find information about a specific person,
[00:12:09] their connections, movements, and whereabouts, it's enough
[00:12:12] to know their car number. Another
[00:12:15] example: if a person's name is known, the application will help find
[00:12:18] their email, phone number, residential addresses,
[00:12:22] bank accounts, height, weight, eye color. It will promptly display
[00:12:26] data about their friends, meetings, and movements. In simple
[00:12:30] terms, the company has created a comprehensive surveillance system. It
[00:12:33] connects billions of data points from completely different sources,
[00:12:36] analyzing massive amounts of information. Thanks to this
[00:12:40] tool, society is under surveillance. Authorities can obtain
[00:12:43] a detailed profile of a desired individual or
[00:12:46] organization. The software allows for combining
[00:12:49] enormous amounts of diverse data and finding
[00:12:52] patterns within it. Previously, as...
[00:12:55] the company hunted for needles not in one, but in thousands of haystacks.
[00:12:59] For example, in Afghanistan and Iraq, soldiers manually
[00:13:02] mapped out networks of insurgents and roadside bomb
[00:13:05] makers. Now, all data, from informant reports to
[00:13:09] intelligence reports and drone photos, is processed on one
[00:13:13] platform, and special algorithms allow for detecting
[00:13:16] connections between people, events, and locations. In
[00:13:19] 2024, the company received a contract for
[00:13:23] 480 million
[00:13:25] from the US Army for a system called Sentinel, tasked with
[00:13:29] processing battlefield intelligence data in real
[00:13:33] time using artificial intelligence. Drones, satellites,
[00:13:36] intercepted communications, sensor data—everything flows into
[00:13:40] a single Palantir system that provides commanders with ready-made
[00:13:44] solutions: whom to bomb, where to shoot, where
[00:13:46] the enemy is. They say that in Afghanistan, its algorithms
[00:13:50] tracked people so meticulously that they knew when a person woke up and how many
[00:13:54] times a day they went to the toilet. According to a Wall Street Journal report from
[00:13:58] 2013, it was this company that helped the CIA
[00:14:01] find Osama bin Laden. In the military
[00:14:04] field, Palantir's information awareness system strives for
[00:14:08] the creation of autonomous combat artificial
[00:14:11] intelligence that makes decisions to destroy a target or kill a person
[00:14:15] without human operator involvement. And in the genesis of this
[00:14:18] dystopian system, Jeffrey Epstein also took
[00:14:21] an active part. Many meetings between Thiel and Epstein are known
[00:14:25] until the latter's arrest in 2019.
[00:14:28] Epstein not only personally invested in Peter
[00:14:31] Thiel's projects but also introduced him to the former Prime Minister of Israel, who previously
[00:14:35] headed the Ministry of Defense and military intelligence of that country,
[00:14:38] Ehud Barak. Palantir has proven its high
[00:14:42] combat capability and good equipment. Ask our
[00:14:45] enemies.
[00:14:54] Palantir has been working in Ukraine since the first months of the conflict, and not just
[00:14:58] working; in essence, the company has become the digital brain of the Ukrainian
[00:15:01] army. In 2022, Palantir CEO
[00:15:04] Alex Karp personally flew to
[00:15:08] Kyiv. After this visit, Palantir deployed its flagship
[00:15:11] military platform in
[00:15:13] Ukraine.
[00:15:15] The power of our software is that it allows for more efficient killing.
[00:15:18] This may sound harsh, but in war, killing efficiency
[00:15:22] is the efficiency of saving one's own
[00:15:25] soldiers. This is how, without euphemisms, the head of
[00:15:28] the IT company from Silicon Valley pronounces the word
[00:15:31] "kill" as a normal business metric: kill
[00:15:34] more effectively, aim more accurately, decide.
[00:16:07] what the military calls a digital battlefield, a complete
[00:16:11] digitalization of the conflict zone. Palantir
[00:16:13] received the exclusive right to test military
[00:16:17] AI models in Ukraine, to verify the operation of data processing
[00:16:20] algorithms, to process human-AI interaction on the battlefield,
[00:16:24] and also to test autonomous
[00:16:27] and semi-autonomous drone systems. Previously, the US could only gain
[00:16:30] such experience in exercises or through simulations. Palantir opened an office in
[00:16:34] Kyiv, hired Ukrainian engineers, and integrated with
[00:17:30] Boris Johnson signed a contract to manage the data of the
[00:17:34] National Health Service.
[00:17:38] The contract was signed in a hurried manner without a full
[00:17:41] tender for a symbolic sum, literally for 1 pound
[00:17:44] sterling. 1 pound, not a million, not
[00:17:48] a billion, just one. Watch closely. The company enters
[00:17:52] the state system for pennies, integrating its software
[00:17:55] so deeply that refusing later is simply
[00:17:59] impossible. And then the real contracts begin. In
[00:18:03] 2023, the NHS
[00:18:06] signed a contract for 330
[00:18:09] million pounds, from one pound to half a billion in
[00:18:12] 3 years. Profitability to infinity.
[00:18:15] Palantir should not have access to NHS data. This
[00:18:19] company, created for espionage, its business is
[00:18:22] surveillance. To hand over the medical records of the entire country to it is like
[00:18:25] inviting a burglar to guard your home. What exactly
[00:18:29] did Palantir get? Access to medical data of 67
[00:18:33] million Britons: diagnoses, medical histories, doctor's prescriptions,
[00:18:36] recipes, analyses, hospitalizations. The entire
[00:18:39] medical life of the nation in the servers of a company that was created with
[00:18:43] CIA money sounds like the premise of a dystopia, but it's
[00:18:46] reality, and this is only what we know, because
[00:18:50] a significant part of the contracts, as we already
[00:18:53] said, is classified. By the way, Edward Snowden, the famous
[00:18:57] US National Security agent, already in
[00:19:00] 2013 revealed the essence of
[00:19:02] Palantir. Palantir is a private
[00:19:05] intelligence agency. The difference between
[00:19:49] worked. The future vice president won the Republican primaries and got
[00:19:53] a seat in the upper house of Congress. Bloomberg dug
[00:19:56] deeper and found that more than a dozen people associated with
[00:19:59] the founder took positions in the Trump
[00:20:01] administration. David Sacks, who worked with Thiel at
[00:20:05] PayPal, became the crypto czar.
[00:20:15] Jacob Helberg, senior advisor to Palantir's CEO, was appointed
[00:20:19] Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
[00:20:22] Gregory Barbaccia, former head of Palantir's intelligence unit,
[00:20:25] became the Federal Chief Information
[00:20:28] Officer.
[00:20:33] This is the technological monster enveloping the planet.