Despite rising skepticism about the value of a college degree, fueled by high costs and the advancement of AI, Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey argues that it remains worthwhile. He asserts that a …
London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50 million contract between the Metropolitan Police and the US tech company Palantir, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules because the police had…
Palantir held a spring hack week to develop new oversight tools for its software used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), aiming to address inte…
James O'Malley's newsletter 'Odds and Ends #98' covers his acting debut, HS2 problems, AI fixing Britain's plumbing, and Palantir's performance. The post also includes a podcast discussing BBC's NIMBY…
Anthropic and OpenAI are using super PACs to influence the 2024 midterm elections, spending millions to attack congressional candidates and each other. Anthropic donated $20 million to a super PAC bac…
Dell Technologies announced major updates to its AI Factory product set at Dell Technologies World, including a new AI Data Platform with three internal storage engines—PowerScale, Lightning, and Obje…
This article is a behind-the-scenes look at how a story about ICE using Palantir to track 20 million people on iPhones was reported. The journalist, Joseph, explains he gathered information by speakin…
Palantir has released an audio edition of its essay "The Scouring of Middle Earth," featuring a *Lord of the Rings*-inspired soundtrack, exclusively for paying subscribers. The piece compares the ethi…
NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model that unifies vision, audio and language processing into a single system, enabling AI agents to achieve up to 9x higher inference efficien…
Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel do read the science fiction works they reference, but they misinterpret them by identifying with the authoritarian or dystopian factions r…