US data-analytics and defense software company; partner of Israel's Ministry of Defense and builder of the Maven system.
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Palantir Technologies, co-founded by CEO Alex Karp and chairman Peter Thiel, sells targeting and surveillance software to armies and police. In January 2024 it agreed a strategic partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense 'in support of war-related missions'. Al Jazeera reports its software 'integrates intercepted communications, satellite imagery and other datasets to help generate military targeting lists for Israeli forces', and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese found reasonable grounds to believe it supplied Israel with predictive policing technology and its AI Platform. Karp's answer to the charge that Palantir kills Palestinians: 'mostly terrorists, that's true.' Its Maven Smart System, with a contract ceiling of nearly $1.3B, became the Pentagon's main targeting platform for the war on Iran; Bloomberg found Maven recommended the Minab school as a day-one target. Business is excellent: Q2 2026 revenue was $1.94B, up 93%, and its 2026 forecast is about $8.15B.
Palantir opened its first Israeli office in 2015. In January 2024 Alex Karp and Peter Thiel held its board meeting in Tel Aviv 'in solidarity with Israel' and agreed a strategic partnership with the Israel Ministry of Defense to 'harness Palantir's advanced technology in support of war-related missions.'
Al Jazeera reported that Palantir actively recruited Unit 8200 veterans and that its software 'integrates intercepted communications, satellite imagery and other datasets to help generate military targeting lists for Israeli forces.' UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese found 'reasonable grounds to believe' it provided predictive policing technology and its AI Platform for 'automated decision-making' on the battlefield.
Sources: Thiel's Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech (Bloomberg reprint hosted by Palantir), jpost.com, ,
Palantir's Maven Smart System started as a $480M Pentagon contract in 2024; the ceiling rose to nearly $1.3B in 2025 and in March 2026 the Pentagon made it a program of record, already 'the primary AI operating system' for U.S. strikes on Iran, Reuters reported.
Claude was embedded in Palantir's Maven Smart System during the 2026 Iran campaign and was reported by the Washington Post to support target generation and prioritization. Bloomberg's investigation found that Maven played a specific role in the Minab targeting chain and that overreliance on the system contributed to the strike. No public evidence currently establishes that Claude itself selected, recommended or processed the Minab school target.
Bloomberg found the Minab school, wrongly catalogued as a Revolutionary Guard site, was fed into Maven and came out as a recommended day-one target; the strike killed more than 150 people, at least 123 of them children. Palantir said it 'is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies.'
Revenue rose from $2.2B in 2023 to $4.5B in 2025. In Q2 2026 Palantir reported $1.94B, up 93%, with U.S. government revenue up 90% to $809M, and raised its 2026 forecast to about $8.15B. H1 2026 net income was $1.94B. Contracts include a U.S. Army deal worth up to $10B, ICE's $30M 'ImmigrationOS', and a £240M ($323M) UK Ministry of Defence contract in January 2026. Vanguard (9.1%) and BlackRock (8.6%) are its largest institutional investors, per the UN report.
Sources: StockAnalysis.com, jpost.com, StockTitan (mirror of Palantir Form 10-Q, Q2 2026), Breaking Defense, UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/59/23)
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Blackrock is the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 per cent), Microsoft (7.8 per cent), Amazon.com (6.6 per cent), Alphabet (6.6 per cent) and IBM (8.6 per cent).
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Vanguard is the largest institutional investor in Caterpillar (9.8 per cent), Chevron (8.9 per cent) and Palantir (9.1 per cent)
The Army announced Palantir has been awarded up to $10 billion over 10 years for a new type of contract vehicle
ICE granted a $30 million contract to longtime contractor Palantir Technologies to develop 'ImmigrationOS,' a surveillance platform.
DOD revealed its decision to increase that contract ceiling for Palantir's MSS to nearly $1.3 billion through 2029.
total compensation for fiscal 2025 was $8,623,000 ... Salary: $1,101,637 ... All other compensation: $7,521,363 ... $2,506,484 for personal security services, $1,998,476 for aircraft costs, and $2,390,000 in HSR Act filing fees
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Anthropic and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) today announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to the Claude 3 and 3.5 family of models on AWS.
Claude is central to Palantir's Maven Smart System, which provides real-time targeting for military operations against Iran. ... proposed 'hundreds' of targets for the U.S. military to strike, prioritized them in order of importance, and provided location coordinates for them.
Revenue FY 2025: $4,475 million | FY 2024: $2,866 million | FY 2023: $2,225 million; Net Income FY 2025: $1,625 million | FY 2024: $462.19 million | FY 2023: $209.83 million
Six months ended June 30, 2026: Revenue $3,568,047 (thousands); Net income $1,942,364; Net income attributable to common stockholders $1,932,417. The Company's remaining performance obligations were $4.9 billion as of June 30, 2026
Six months ended June 30, 2026: Revenue $3,568,047 (thousands); Net income $1,942,364; Net income attributable to common stockholders $1,932,417. The Company's remaining performance obligations were $4.9 billion as of June 30, 2026
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To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it's ever used in warfare. Anthropic's Claude partnered with the military's Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates.
Claude is central to Palantir's Maven Smart System, which provides real-time targeting for military operations against Iran.
the US military is extensively using Palantir's Maven Smart System in the conflict, which has had Anthropic's Claude chatbot integrated since 2024. ... the Wall Street Journal first reported on the Pentagon's use of Claude to select attack targets in Iran
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Palantir's Maven Smart Systems – a software platform that supplies militaries with intelligence analysis and weapons targeting – uses multiple prompts and workflows that were built using Anthropic's Claude code, according to two people familiar with the matter.
"Both parties have mutually agreed to harness Palantir's advanced technology in support of war-related missions."
"signed a declaration to use emergency authorities to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel" ... over 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs
artificial intelligence embedded in the Maven Smart System owned by Palantir Technologies Inc. ... relied on satellite imagery that had not been updated in seven years ... killed 123 children at Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Iran's Minab on 28 February
A Bloomberg investigation published Sept 18 says overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System — which uses Anthropic's Claude to semi-autonomously rank targets ... Palantir told Bloomberg there is no evidence its software was at fault and has since added disqualifier flags to Maven.
Inside US Military 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School (headline; body not fetchable — robots.txt)
Mr. Karp is one of our co-founders and has served in various positions with us since co-founding Palantir. He has served as our Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") since 2005
Palantir Technologies Inc. ... has agreed to a strategic partnership with the Israeli Defense Ministry to supply technology to help the country's war effort.
Mr. Thiel is one of our co-founders and has served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since 2003.
Peter Thiel 58 Co-Founder and Chairman 2003
He launched Palantir in 2003, a big data analysis company, and has been its chairman since then.
Palantir Technologies Inc. ... has agreed to a strategic partnership with the Israeli Defense Ministry to supply technology to help the country's war effort.
Six months ended June 30, 2026: Revenue $3,568,047 (thousands); Net income $1,942,364; Net income attributable to common stockholders $1,932,417. The Company's remaining performance obligations were $4.9 billion as of June 30, 2026
Six months ended June 30, 2026: Revenue $3,568,047 (thousands); Net income $1,942,364; Net income attributable to common stockholders $1,932,417. The Company's remaining performance obligations were $4.9 billion as of June 30, 2026