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00:00:09This is understandable politics. Hello, today's topic is about a company that knows more about you
00:00:13than you know yourself. It reads your data, predicts your
00:00:17behavior, and decides who is foe, who is friend, and it decides not for
00:00:21itself, but for the most powerful intelligence agencies
00:00:23on the planet.
00:00:28Its name is Palantir Technologies. Most people on Earth have never
00:00:32heard of it, and that's exactly what it wants. What is so special about
00:00:36a company that is one of the most dangerous,
00:00:39mysterious, and influential in the world?
00:01:41Palantir is called the Big Brother and Uncle Sam's software.
00:01:44The company is attributed with many things, even surveillance of world
00:01:48leaders. In addition, total control over everyone, participation in
00:01:51the creation of biological and nuclear weapons, the ability
00:01:55to eliminate undesirable individuals. Its software has already decided who lives
00:01:59and who doesn't.
00:02:04A private IT company that has turned into a player who can practically do anything on
00:02:08the market for 23 years now. It was founded by a group of investors led by
00:02:11Peter Thiel, a successful IT entrepreneur in the USA.
00:02:15A billionaire, co-founder of PayPal, one of the first investors in Facebook,
00:02:19and a person whom Silicon Valley considers both
00:02:22a genius and a dangerous
00:02:24visionary.
00:02:36The creators of Palantir are people with a sense of humor. Palantir is an artifact from
00:02:40Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings universe, which is the name
00:02:43of a magical stone through which one can see everything: past,
00:02:46present, future, any point in the world. He who
00:02:50possesses a Palantir possesses information. He who possesses
00:02:53information possesses everything. Thiel,
00:02:57a libertarian, an outspoken supporter of Trump, and most importantly, a person
00:03:00who sincerely believes technology should serve
00:03:03national security.
00:03:06Since its inception, Palantir Technologies has been shrouded in scandals
00:03:10and conspiracy theories. Many of its contracts are classified, and
00:03:13the technical details of its systems' operations are kept secret.
00:03:17The company was founded in 2003 by Peter
00:03:20Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, and also Alex Karp, a Doctor of
00:03:23Philosophy and a graduate of Stanford Law School. They
00:03:27created a structure named after the all-seeing stones from The Lord of the
00:03:31Rings. Officially, for combating terrorism
00:03:35and protecting national security. Unofficially,
00:03:38as hackers claim, for secretly controlling
00:03:41the world.
00:03:46Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan
00:03:50Gettings founded the company based on technology developed within the PayPal
00:03:54payment system to combat fraud. The software
00:03:57was able to analyze huge volumes of
00:04:00shares and find connections between them. Thiel realized that this same concept
00:04:04could be applied in
00:04:05intelligence.
00:04:10Palantir was not born in a garage like Apple; it was born in the offices of
00:04:13Langley, the headquarters of the CIA. The first and main
00:04:16investor in the company was the venture fund In-Q-Tel, which is
00:04:20the investment fund of the CIA. In-Q-Tel was created in
00:04:241999 with the sole purpose of
00:04:27financing technology startups whose products
00:04:31could be used in intelligence and national security. The fund
00:04:34invested in dozens of companies, but Palantir is its main, most
00:04:38successful, most secret project. Initial investments
00:04:41amounted to about 2 million dollars. Today, this bet
00:04:44has brought a thousandfold return. The scheme is indecently
00:04:47simple. The CIA, through its fund, provides money at the start. The company
00:04:51grows, gets contracts from the very state that
00:04:54created it. Contracts are closed, sums are classified,
00:04:58details are state secrets. An ideal business, a business
00:05:02that is ideal. Many years ago, I had the honor of personally communicating with Peter
00:05:05Thiel, who is the creator of Technologies,
00:05:08and from the early 2000s...
00:05:12the company understood that artificial
00:05:15intelligence, programs related to data aggregation and
00:05:19compilation, were a very good business, because
00:05:22the United States, ever since the beginning
00:05:25of the PRISM program, very
00:05:28actively collected intelligence data,
00:05:31and naturally, a large number of analysts in
00:05:35Langley were forced to work with this data mass. And if we
00:05:39go to Langley Falls, where the CIA headquarters are,
00:05:42there was an entire wing occupied by analysts who spent huge
00:05:46budgets to predict certain
00:05:49events and risks. Initially,
00:05:52the CIA was the company's only customer. For 5 years, the software
00:05:56was tested on the world's most secret data. Today, the order portfolio
00:05:59speaks for itself. Almost half of the company's income comes from
00:06:03American security forces: the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, NSA, and
00:06:07other special services. Palantir's clients also include
00:06:10the US Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland
00:06:13Security, the US Air Force, the US Marine
00:06:17Corps, the Special Operations Command of the States, the US Military
00:06:21Academy, police departments across the country,
00:06:24the Israeli Armed Forces, and dozens of large corporations.
00:06:28The Pentagon alone, since 2008,
00:06:30has concluded contracts with Palantir for a total of over 2 billion
00:06:34dollars. But the Palantir octopus has enveloped not only the US and Israel. In
00:06:38December 2025, the company extended its agreement with the agency
00:06:42for internal intelligence in France. In January of this year, it signed a contract with
00:06:46the UK Ministry of Defense for 240 million
00:06:50pounds. In 2020, the company's shares
00:06:53were listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a capitalization of 16
00:06:56billion dollars. From this moment, Palantir's story became
00:07:00public. The firm's headquarters are located in Palo Alto,
00:07:04and representative offices are open in nine countries. Palantir's main
00:07:07product is artificial intelligence that collects, stitches together, and analyzes
00:07:10data from thousands of sources.
00:07:42that ended up in the hands of hackers, paint a different picture.
00:07:46Internet entrepreneur and former hacker Kim Dotcom on
00:07:50February 15th published a message on social network X, in
00:07:53which he claimed that the American IT corporation Palantir
00:07:56Technologies was allegedly subjected to a hacker attack using
00:08:00an AI agent who obtained maximum access to the company's
00:08:04systems.
00:08:08According to leaked materials, the company tracks not only potential
00:08:12terrorists, but also those who are considered the masters of
00:08:16the world. Analysts have at their disposal thousands of hours
00:08:19of transcribed conversations of Donald
00:08:22Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk. Moreover,
00:08:26it is alleged that company employees installed
00:08:29spyware into the onboard systems of airplanes,
00:08:32cars, and gadgets of world
00:08:34leaders. The goal is to create the largest
00:08:38archive of compromising material in history.
00:08:42lists other shocking findings by hackers. According to him, Palantir allegedly
00:08:46is responsible for most of the casualties among Palestinians in Gaza,
00:08:50as it participated in the development of surveillance systems for the Israeli army.
00:08:53However, he did not provide documentary evidence. With
00:08:57regard to the civilian population, Palantir allows for so-called
00:09:01preventive policing, within which, based on personal data,
00:09:04a virtual profile of a person is formed. Then this profile
00:09:08is compared with other profiles, including those of convicted
00:09:11criminals. Then the system gives a probabilistic assessment that
00:09:15the person may commit a crime in the future and gives
00:09:18police officers a recommendation to detain
00:09:22them. From the perspective of Western law enforcement practice,
00:09:25the idea of preventive policing sounds
00:09:29like unlawful nonsense, but this technology was essentially already
00:09:33tested by Israel during the punitive operation in the Gaza Strip. With
00:09:36the only caveat that the software there did not give
00:09:40recommendations to detain a potential criminal.
00:10:12for the elimination of these people was given by artificial intelligence, and
00:10:16as we can see, there were no problems
00:10:19to press the button
00:10:23to drop.
00:10:25a munition or attack the building where this person
00:10:29was found. The IDF had no issues; they killed people indiscriminately,
00:10:32but under the guise of this
00:10:35program and this artificial intelligence. Essentially, a private
00:10:38IT company has become a player capable of compiling dossiers on
00:10:41any person. According to hackers, Palantir, in close
00:10:45collaboration with the CIA, is developing biological
00:10:48and nuclear weapons for Ukraine. The company has two
00:10:51key software products: Gotham for law enforcement and government agencies,
00:10:55and Foundry for commercial companies. Gotham collects data about
00:10:58people with minute-by-minute accuracy: correspondence, contacts, movements,
00:11:02property, biometrics, even deleted files, eye
00:11:05color. If a person left a fingerprint or DNA anywhere,
00:11:09the program knows everything. The search capabilities are highly detailed, from
00:11:12identifying characteristics such as tattoos to
00:11:16indirect social connections or daily shopping
00:11:19habits. The main advantage of Palantir lies in its
00:11:23ability to remove barriers related to data fragmentation.
00:11:27Previously, tax records, immigration data,
00:11:30criminal records, and travel history were often stored in separate systems.
00:11:34Palantir integrated everything into a single environment. Here,
00:11:38raw data streams are transformed into living objects
00:11:41such as people, vehicles, or locations, which
00:11:45allows investigators to extract almost all data about
00:11:48an object. With just a few clicks, security
00:11:52personnel can access the network of
00:11:55relationships of any person, and this is not fiction, but
00:11:58the company's routine work. Today, Palantir's main client is
00:12:02the Pentagon. Gotham is a data analysis application.
00:12:05For example, for the FBI to find information about a specific person,
00:12:09their connections, movements, and whereabouts, it's enough
00:12:12to know their car number. Another
00:12:15example: if a person's name is known, the application will help find
00:12:18their email, phone number, residential addresses,
00:12:22bank accounts, height, weight, eye color. It will promptly display
00:12:26data about their friends, meetings, and movements. In simple
00:12:30terms, the company has created a comprehensive surveillance system. It
00:12:33connects billions of data points from completely different sources,
00:12:36analyzing massive amounts of information. Thanks to this
00:12:40tool, society is under surveillance. Authorities can obtain
00:12:43a detailed profile of a desired individual or
00:12:46organization. The software allows for combining
00:12:49enormous amounts of diverse data and finding
00:12:52patterns within it. Previously, as...
00:12:55the company hunted for needles not in one, but in thousands of haystacks.
00:12:59For example, in Afghanistan and Iraq, soldiers manually
00:13:02mapped out networks of insurgents and roadside bomb
00:13:05makers. Now, all data, from informant reports to
00:13:09intelligence reports and drone photos, is processed on one
00:13:13platform, and special algorithms allow for detecting
00:13:16connections between people, events, and locations. In
00:13:192024, the company received a contract for
00:13:23480 million
00:13:25from the US Army for a system called Sentinel, tasked with
00:13:29processing battlefield intelligence data in real
00:13:33time using artificial intelligence. Drones, satellites,
00:13:36intercepted communications, sensor data—everything flows into
00:13:40a single Palantir system that provides commanders with ready-made
00:13:44solutions: whom to bomb, where to shoot, where
00:13:46the enemy is. They say that in Afghanistan, its algorithms
00:13:50tracked people so meticulously that they knew when a person woke up and how many
00:13:54times a day they went to the toilet. According to a Wall Street Journal report from
00:13:582013, it was this company that helped the CIA
00:14:01find Osama bin Laden. In the military
00:14:04field, Palantir's information awareness system strives for
00:14:08the creation of autonomous combat artificial
00:14:11intelligence that makes decisions to destroy a target or kill a person
00:14:15without human operator involvement. And in the genesis of this
00:14:18dystopian system, Jeffrey Epstein also took
00:14:21an active part. Many meetings between Thiel and Epstein are known
00:14:25until the latter's arrest in 2019.
00:14:28Epstein not only personally invested in Peter
00:14:31Thiel's projects but also introduced him to the former Prime Minister of Israel, who previously
00:14:35headed the Ministry of Defense and military intelligence of that country,
00:14:38Ehud Barak. Palantir has proven its high
00:14:42combat capability and good equipment. Ask our
00:14:45enemies.
00:14:54Palantir has been working in Ukraine since the first months of the conflict, and not just
00:14:58working; in essence, the company has become the digital brain of the Ukrainian
00:15:01army. In 2022, Palantir CEO
00:15:04Alex Karp personally flew to
00:15:08Kyiv. After this visit, Palantir deployed its flagship
00:15:11military platform in
00:15:13Ukraine.
00:15:15The power of our software is that it allows for more efficient killing.
00:15:18This may sound harsh, but in war, killing efficiency
00:15:22is the efficiency of saving one's own
00:15:25soldiers. This is how, without euphemisms, the head of
00:15:28the IT company from Silicon Valley pronounces the word
00:15:31"kill" as a normal business metric: kill
00:15:34more effectively, aim more accurately, decide.
00:16:07what the military calls a digital battlefield, a complete
00:16:11digitalization of the conflict zone. Palantir
00:16:13received the exclusive right to test military
00:16:17AI models in Ukraine, to verify the operation of data processing
00:16:20algorithms, to process human-AI interaction on the battlefield,
00:16:24and also to test autonomous
00:16:27and semi-autonomous drone systems. Previously, the US could only gain
00:16:30such experience in exercises or through simulations. Palantir opened an office in
00:16:34Kyiv, hired Ukrainian engineers, and integrated with
00:17:30Boris Johnson signed a contract to manage the data of the
00:17:34National Health Service.
00:17:38The contract was signed in a hurried manner without a full
00:17:41tender for a symbolic sum, literally for 1 pound
00:17:44sterling. 1 pound, not a million, not
00:17:48a billion, just one. Watch closely. The company enters
00:17:52the state system for pennies, integrating its software
00:17:55so deeply that refusing later is simply
00:17:59impossible. And then the real contracts begin. In
00:18:032023, the NHS
00:18:06signed a contract for 330
00:18:09million pounds, from one pound to half a billion in
00:18:123 years. Profitability to infinity.
00:18:15Palantir should not have access to NHS data. This
00:18:19company, created for espionage, its business is
00:18:22surveillance. To hand over the medical records of the entire country to it is like
00:18:25inviting a burglar to guard your home. What exactly
00:18:29did Palantir get? Access to medical data of 67
00:18:33million Britons: diagnoses, medical histories, doctor's prescriptions,
00:18:36recipes, analyses, hospitalizations. The entire
00:18:39medical life of the nation in the servers of a company that was created with
00:18:43CIA money sounds like the premise of a dystopia, but it's
00:18:46reality, and this is only what we know, because
00:18:50a significant part of the contracts, as we already
00:18:53said, is classified. By the way, Edward Snowden, the famous
00:18:57US National Security agent, already in
00:19:002013 revealed the essence of
00:19:02Palantir. Palantir is a private
00:19:05intelligence agency. The difference between
00:19:49worked. The future vice president won the Republican primaries and got
00:19:53a seat in the upper house of Congress. Bloomberg dug
00:19:56deeper and found that more than a dozen people associated with
00:19:59the founder took positions in the Trump
00:20:01administration. David Sacks, who worked with Thiel at
00:20:05PayPal, became the crypto czar.
00:20:15Jacob Helberg, senior advisor to Palantir's CEO, was appointed
00:20:19Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
00:20:22Gregory Barbaccia, former head of Palantir's intelligence unit,
00:20:25became the Federal Chief Information
00:20:28Officer.
00:20:33This is the technological monster enveloping the planet.