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Palantir is de-facto military contractor and the Palantir CEO knows it.

"“Our product is used, on occasion, to kill people,” Karp said in an interview with news website Axios in 2020."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwSTuDa9RY

https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/inside-palant...

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That is hyperbole as Palantir doesn’t pull the trigger

We could easily say: Microsoft, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Apple, Google, openAI, Amazon & Meta are all defense contractors too

Could Palantir be compared with Raytheon? A major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. Raytheon makes air traffic control systems, radars and sensors, satellite sensors, missile defense systems, missiles.

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