Category: Palantir

Anthropic is powering the horrific strikes on Iran

A child walks toward a large, charred rocket or missile casing embedded nose-first in a green field, with damaged buildings and trees visible in the background

The US and Israeli war on Iran is a live testing ground for deploying AI in a large-scale war. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Anthropic’s Claude is central to the onslaught: assessing intelligence and identifying targets. This isn’t the first time Anthropic’s systems have been used to assist in illegal US operations: they were also deployed in Maduroo’s kidnapping from Venezuela.

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The Twilight Zone

Laila Lalami’s prescient new novel follows a woman imprisoned by the government for her dreams.

By Sue Halpern for The New York Review of Books on July 31, 2025

Ook Nederlandse politie gebruikt omstreden software van Palantir

Nederland blijkt al jaren terug in het geheim de omstreden software van Palantir te hebben aangeschaft. Demissionair premier Dick Schoof was hier in 2011 als directeur-generaal van de politie bij betrokken. Dit blijkt uit documenten die via een beroep op de Wet open overheid (Woo) onlangs openbaar zijn gemaakt.

By Peter Olsthoorn for Volkskrant on August 22, 2025

NoTechFor: Forced Assimilation

Following the terror attack in Denmark of 2015, the state amped upits data analytics capabilities for counter-terrorism within the police and their Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET). Denmark, a country which hosts an established, normalised, and widely accepted public surveillance infrastructure – justified in service of public health and greater centralisation and coordination between government and municipalities in delivery of citizen services – also boasts an intelligence service with extraordinarily expansive surveillance capabilities, and the enjoyment of wide exemptions from data protection regulations.

From No Tech for Tyrants on July 13, 2020

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