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It happened within seconds. It was the early afternoon around 2:30 p.m. on

February 15th, 2011. A dry winter sun hung over the highway, Highway 57. A

long exposed stretch of road cutting through the state of San Louis Potici, Mexico. The heat shimmerred off the

Mexico. The heat shimmerred off the asphalt. The wind was dead. It was the

asphalt. The wind was dead. It was the kind of quiet day where you can hear your own tires humming on the road.

Well, HM security agents Haime Zapata and Victor Aila are driving a blackedout SUV across San Louis Potici, Mexico.

They're driving from Lorettto, Texas to Mexico City on assignment from Homeland Security. A routine weapons interdiction

Security. A routine weapons interdiction mission they had done many times before.

The agents were driving and noticed that they were being followed. Two vehicles

were coming up on them at very high speeds, extremely aggressive. a silver

Volkswagen Jetta and a dark SUV. Both

weaving through traffic with predatory precision. It's then that one vehicle

precision. It's then that one vehicle speeds ahead and the other stays behind them. The classic boxin maneuver. Then

them. The classic boxin maneuver. Then

it happened. The first burst echoes across the empty highway. Bullets start

ramming them and they're being rammed off the road. Metal crunching, glass exploding, the tires screeching. The SUV

skids onto the shoulder as dust clouds rise around them. Once off the road, all the cars stop. One of the gunmen, dressed in Mexican Federal Police

uniform, clean boots, crisp patches, the whole facade, gets out of his vehicle with a rifle in hand and approaches the black SUV. The one agent rolls down the

black SUV. The one agent rolls down the window to inform the federal agent they are US diplomats, but something's wrong.

The man's face is blank. No hesitation,

no recognition, no fear of consequences.

The federal agent forces the door open and begins shooting point blank at the US Homeland Security agents. The muzzle

flashes illuminate the inside the SUV like a strobe light. Blood, glass,

smoke, shouting, it all happens at once.

The other federal agents get out of their vehicles, trying to pull open the driver's side door and drag out Haime Sapatada, but he fights them off and manages to lock the car doors. At this

point, there's a total of 15 fake [music] Mexican Federal police surrounding the vehicle. A perfect kill circle. The uniforms looked official,

circle. The uniforms looked official, but the behavior was execution style.

The agents tried to talk with them, trying to identify themselves as US diplomats once again. However, they open fire on Haime and Victor. The Federal

then flee, and Victor manages to call for help. Haime is dying and puts the

for help. Haime is dying and puts the car in drive before collapsing at the wheel. That would be the last thing he

wheel. That would be the last thing he ever did in service to the US. Within

hours, a helicopter arrives and takes him to a hospital in Houston, Texas.

Victor Aila has two gunshot wounds in his leg, and Haime Sapata has three, but is pronounced dead. This is the first assassination of a US federal agent on

Mexican soil since 1985, which is the famous Kiki Kamarena being the last one.

Did Mexican Federal Police do this?

Nope. It was Lozettas, Mexican cartel.

They dressed the part and then took out the hit as ordered by El Polin, a top Zeta commander known for using police disguises in high-risisk operations. And

you want to know the craziest part? The

US government identified the entire Zeta cartel network, the shooters, the cartel leader, Elpion, who ordered the hit, and the weapons used within 11 hours of the hit. And within two weeks, they would

hit. And within two weeks, they would all be in prison. But how? Because

today's story isn't about Lozettes cartel, nor Homeland Security for that fact, or even Mexico. It's about the device the US government deployed that will find anyone, anything at any time.

Palunteer. So, before we get deeper into the story, let me make something very clear before I see the comments. This

video is not the complete in-depth 3-hour plus history of Palunteer. It's

the cliffnotes version, a 30,000 ft perspective on how the company started, why it matters, and why Alex Karp specifically ended up becoming the architect behind Palanteer's Rise. Now,

if you're a Palunteer superfan or someone who follows the company very closely, you already know this. Many of

you want to hear about Peter Teal because he may have founded Palanteer, but Alex Karp built Palanteer. Theel

provided the original idea, the seed money, which I will talk about, and the early push into the intelligence world.

But it was Karp, who was the philosopher with zero background, who became the day-to-day force strategist, the storyteller, and the one who was the architect of Palunteer's identity, mission, and culture. So before anyone

comments you didn't talk enough about Peter Teal or Steven Cohen the founder or talking about the now famous Palmer Lucky who's on all these podcast who has strong ties to Palunteer or you missed this part of the origin story.

Understand this. This video is an introduction. And yes I will be making

introduction. And yes I will be making future videos that go even deeper down the rabbit hole. Peter Teal's real role, the politics, the scandals, the classified programs, the tech, everything. But right now, you're just

everything. But right now, you're just getting the big picture. Where Palanteer

[music] came from, why it works the way it does, and how Alex Karp became the unusual mind steering one of the most [music] powerful data companies on Earth. And since we have a moment, if

Earth. And since we have a moment, if you haven't already, please like, comment, subscribe. All right, back to

comment, subscribe. All right, back to the story. So, Palanteer has been

the story. So, Palanteer has been shrouded in mystery for decades. And to

really understand how it works, we need to understand its real architect, and that is Alex Karp. born October 2nd, 1967, was the eldest son in a family of four. [music]

four. [music] His father was a Jewish doctor and a mother and an Africanamean artist. They

had a moderate lifestyle. His mother

frequently outfitted him and his brother with clothes from consignment sales.

That's the alleged stories. And summer

vacations were spent at a family-owned cabin that had neither electricity [music] nor running water. Very

grassroots story. Still, his greatest obstacle would be his dyslexia. But he

was smart, so his parents enrolled him in a specialized school where he learned to read fluently. [music]

From there, he essentially breezed through his studies with top marks. He

later decided to join Hford College. But

as he was about to start his first semester, his parents divorced. It was

so messy, apparently his father refused to [music] pay his tuition. His mother

eventually had him covered. He was

constantly living with the fear [music] of being kicked out from campus. for the

first time in his life, he experienced economic insecurity and he promised himself never to experience it again.

And this is where the legend starts to grow because after getting his diploma in philosophy, interesting degree, he studied law at Stanford University.

There he met Peter Teal and they quickly became friends. Within weeks of

became friends. Within weeks of receiving his diploma, he left for Germany for a PhD. He lived well there, but a problem would soon come up. By the

time Karp earned his PhD, he realized that he didn't want to become an academic. He was now in his mid30s at

academic. He was now in his mid30s at this point and had little practical experience. But in the midst [music] of

experience. But in the midst [music] of his confusion, he and Peter Teal reconnected. Little did he know his life

reconnected. Little did he know his life would take an unexpected turn. September

2001, the USA experienced the worst attack [music] on its soil ever. And for

the first time, the US government was exposed. They realized deadly attacks

exposed. They realized deadly attacks involving dirty bombs or biological weapons were inevitable or even worse depending on what the terrorists wanted to do. The CI and FBI had lots of

to do. The CI and FBI had lots of evidence suggesting an attack was imminent. In fact, that summer reports

imminent. In fact, that summer reports [music] came into the White House warning of al-Qaeda Osan bin Laden preparing for an attack on American soil. Even Alex Jones was talking about

soil. Even Alex Jones was talking about this because CIA and FBI agencies have a long-standing rivalry or what some may call feud [music] of the ego. the

information of hijackers stateside as well as the Kalúa Lumpur al-Qaeda summit where the plotting for this attack [music] took place was never shared between FBI and CIA and because of this

this led to America's worst intelligence disaster ever and [music] after this attack the US government swore it would never allow for something like this to happen again and that would mean through

any means possible John Kuryaka video I did talking about torture so then in 2003 with this video the government was now looking for a software that could integrate and analyze huge streams streams of data. At that time, Peter

Teal had already exited from PayPal. He

was working with Elon Musk and was looking for new investment opportunities with his fresh billion dollars. PayPal

developed systems for [music] detecting frauds and crime on the platform. This

was a godsend. He simply pulled the system to apply it on a larger scale.

The company [music] Palunteer named after the famous allseeing stone in the Lord of the Rings series, and the name was deliberate because like Lord of the Rings, it could predict the future or see what's happening. Unfortunately, the thing that

happening. Unfortunately, the thing that doesn't make sense to me is the stone would end up being corrupted by the wizard who used it. So, it's not really a great name if we expect this company to actually become corrupted at some

point, which we hope it doesn't. Maybe

it already is. Who knows? Anyways, when

Karp got back to the US, he had linked up with Peter. Karp started raising money for his venture capital, and a few months later, Peter Teal asked him to join Palunteer, not a CEO, but to help

pitch the company to potential customers and investors. Peter figured that

and investors. Peter figured that Palunteer was a hard cell and would need a CEO with strong connections in the national security community. However,

even Karp wasn't the one who came up with Palunteer. [music] He talked about

with Palunteer. [music] He talked about like he really believed in it for him.

Palanteer's mission was to defend the West and democracy. Phil offered him the post which he accepted. So today, you would probably find it evident it is a billiondoll business, but it was

different back in 03 in the early 2000s.

Though it sounds pretty useful, it didn't seem profitable at the time. this

whole data analysis thing. Investors

more interested in startups that sold things to consumers like Amazon. So,

Palunteer didn't look like a good bet, not just because its main target was the government, but also because it relied on clients data to be useful. They were

seeing Alex Karp's words as the loser of Silicon Valley at the time. Everyone was

running away from helping the government and living in Silicon Valley, that was just not the thing. But for Palanteer, they were running towards the government. So we're much closer to

government. So we're much closer to Silicon Valley on the patriotism thing, but for decades uh we fought Silicon Valley about, you know, government is something we should support. We walked

towards the government when everyone walked away. That's how we ended up

walked away. That's how we ended up powering uh Maven, which is the, you know, US government's military.

>> We took advantage when the Google workforce said we don't want Google to work on Maven. And they

>> then we built it. Yeah. Still, after

several attempts, Palanteer was introduced to the CIA and received a 1.2 25 million from its venture capital, Incel. So, the quick tangent here. What

Incel. So, the quick tangent here. What

is Inutel? Well, Inqutel is a CIA investment firm. You heard that right?

investment firm. You heard that right?

It was created in 1999. If you go on ca.gov to read about the company, I'll save you the time from all the CIA language they put out there. Basically,

it's a firm where money is allocated in investing in technology that could help the CIA as quoted as deemed as necessary for national security purposes. Firm

with money for [music] the CIA. It

worked. Over the course of three years working with the CIA, Palanteer developed its first software named Gotham. Another name that carries the

Gotham. Another name that carries the baggage of DC cartoons of Batman, which is associated also being incredibly corrupted city with crime and anarchy.

Hilarious names that don't have good associations. And the results were

associations. And the results were insane from Gotham. Palunteer could

treat massive amounts of information and provide results quicker than any human analyst would have in months. It wasn't

just better at making connections. The

search function accounted for format errors and presented results in varied forms, charts, diagrams, you name it.

Such information could then be used by the CIA in secret operations. And this

wasn't theoretical. Inside Langley,

analysts were already testing the limits of what Palunteer could be combining.

Financial records, phone metadata, surveillance photos, flight logs, border crossings, most importantly today, social media usage and intelligence cables from half a dozen agencies. What

once took weeks of manual cross-checking now took minutes. Not to mention, it's now all powered by AI. Palanteer wasn't

just software anymore. It was a weapon.

A dashboard that let the CIA see patterns most humans could never notice, and it could do it faster. And then in 2017, the world learned just how far US intelligence [music] has gone. This is

another tangent, but important. The

Vault 7 leaks were published by Wikileaks that revealed that the CIA [music] had the capability to intercept information from almost any device,

phones, TVs, car routers, even smart appliances. The document showed tools

appliances. The document showed tools that could remotely activate a microphone, extract data, track movement, or control a device without the owner ever knowing, maybe your car.

It was one of the largest intelligence breaches [music] in CIA history. But

Vault 7 also did something else. It

showed just how critical Palunteer had become because it wasn't enough for the CIA to collect information. They needed

a platform that could analyze it instantly globally across a thousand data streams at [music] once. Palunteer

was the platform. Behind the scenes, the agency had been pushing Palunteer harder than anyone realized. They fed it raw intelligence from black sites, from counterterrorism units, from allied governments, and so forth. But for the

time being, the CIA was proof that Palunteer developed a software that really worked as well as a step towards its founding purpose. A tool that could prevent another 9/11. You'll hear all these CIA people that go on these

podcasts say they would do anything to prevent it from happening. Anything. A

system that could see everything everywhere all at once. A platform

powerful enough that governments feared and enemies tried to steal and could ultimately be used on its people. In

2014, the Department of Homeland Security awarded Palanteer a 41 [music] million contract to build a system called ICM, Investigative Case Management. But Palanteer's relationship

Management. But Palanteer's relationship with ICE actually started around 2011 when Homeland Security Investigations began using Palanteer to track the drug cartels, weapon trafficking, and

crossber crime. Remember the Lozettes

crossber crime. Remember the Lozettes cartel attack? Yep. They were using it

cartel attack? Yep. They were using it then, even before they had the contract.

So, it was a perfect fit, like a hand in a glove. ICM wasn't just another

a glove. ICM wasn't just another database. It was a super tool. It linked

database. It was a super tool. It linked

together information that used to live in totally separate systems. [music] It was really helpful for tracking undocumented immigrants cuz it was a breakthrough for the public like ourselves. It raised a terrifying

ourselves. It raised a terrifying question. Palanteer always insisted the

question. Palanteer always insisted the system was built for serious criminal investigations, not for deportation sweeps. But critics argued that once a

sweeps. But critics argued that once a tool like like this exists, agencies will use it however they want. Again,

for the purpose of national security.

Who deems that? That's a million dollar billion dollar question. So, the ICM became the core of ISIS's intelligence operations and the beginning of Palanteer's most controversial chapter yet. They use it today. Palanteer wasn't

yet. They use it today. Palanteer wasn't

just connecting the dots. It was drawing the map of modern intelligence worldly.

So, kind of going back and forth, after its success at the CIA, Palanteer became famous. Several police forces around the

famous. Several police forces around the country lined up for access to Palunteer software. In 2007, the New York City

software. In 2007, the New York City Police Department Intelligence Unit began a pilot program using Gotham. Like

in the CIA, several agents resisted its use, though. One cop said, "I just need

use, though. One cop said, "I just need to look up license plates, bro. I don't

need to be doing these crazy analytical processes." However, the software caught

processes." However, the software caught on with some analysts. And over time, what began as counterterrorism deployment moved into other areas such as gang violence. But where Palunteer

shined even more was in Los Angeles Police Department. In 2009, the LAPD

Police Department. In 2009, the LAPD started using Palunteer for a crimerevention initiative called Laser.

Let me explain. The goal was to identify hotspots, that is streets in neighborhoods that experience a lot of gun violence and other crimes. Then the

police would put more patrols in those places. More than 1,000 LAPD employees

places. More than 1,000 LAPD employees had access to the software. And it was taking in and merging a wide range of data from phone numbers to field interview cards to capture images from license plate readers. Again, what do

you think? It's California. People were

you think? It's California. People were

furious. They believe that datadriven policing would inevitably lead to racial profiling or like in China a system where they are tracking everything like a big brother. So tons of protests were

held and organized and the media hammered the LAPD for using Palanteer.

So for almost a decade, Palunteer was a [music] company that everyone in Washington whispered about, but nobody fully understood. And then something

fully understood. And then something strange happened. In 2012, best-selling

strange happened. In 2012, best-selling journalist Mark Bowden, the guy who wrote Blackhawk Down, released a book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. It was called The Finnish. And

Laden. It was called The Finnish. And

buried in those pages was a passing reference to Palunteer. He never said Palanteer helped find Osama bin Laden, but the wording made people think exactly that. And in Washington,

exactly that. And in Washington, perception is everything. Cable news

repeated it, politicians repeated it, people in the military-industrial complex repeated it. Suddenly, Palanteer

wasn't just a quirky Silicon Valley analytic startup. It was the tech that

analytic startup. It was the tech that allegedly helped take out the most dangerous man on Earth. Inside

Palunteer, the team knew this wasn't true. Veteran CI analysts later

true. Veteran CI analysts later confirmed Palunteer played no role in tracking Bin Laden. Maybe, maybe not.

It's hard to tell. It's CIA. But by

then, it really didn't matter because the myth was bigger than the truth.

Palanteer finally looked like a company destined [music] for world domination, which would echo in usher in this new age. But the funny thing was that wasn't

age. But the funny thing was that wasn't the moment that changed their future.

The real turning point came from a disaster we all know about in the United States. April 20th, 2010, [music] the

States. April 20th, 2010, [music] the night falls over the Gulf of Mexico. The

Deep Water Horizon drilling rig, one of BP's crown jewel projects, explodes. 11

workers die instantly. 17 are injured.

Nearly 5 million barrels of oil spill into the ocean. The US faces the largest environmental disaster [music] in its history. And behind the scenes, which I

history. And behind the scenes, which I came to learn, BP was in chaos. No one

can answer basic question. Which valves

[music] failed? Which wells are compromised? What maintenance logs show

compromised? What maintenance logs show early warning signs? Where are the pressure anomalies? Because BP wasn't

pressure anomalies? Because BP wasn't one company. [music] It was thousands of

one company. [music] It was thousands of disconnected spreadsheets, databases, sensors, contractors, and legacy systems. None of which spoke to each

other. It was a trillionoll corporation

other. It was a trillionoll corporation drowning in its own data and trying to figure out how this happened. And to my shocking amazement, what did they do?

They called Palunteer. And this, not Bin Laden, is the moment Palanteer actually became Palunteer. Within weeks,

became Palunteer. Within weeks, Palanteer engineers integrated well pressure readings, safety reports, drill logs, maintenance histories, sensor

networks, contractor databases, environmental monitors. Suddenly, all

environmental monitors. Suddenly, all the noise snapped into a clear picture.

Executives could see in real time where risks were emerging, where equipment was failing, and where crews needed to move next. This was not Palanteer Gotham.

next. This was not Palanteer Gotham.

This was something new. This was the prototype would become Boundary, Palunteer's 100 billion dollar weapon over the next 2 years. BB didn't just use Palunteer. They rebuilt their entire

use Palunteer. They rebuilt their entire global operations around it. Thousands

of employees were using the platform daily. And inside Palunteer leadership

daily. And inside Palunteer leadership realized something. If this works for an

realized something. If this works for an oil company with millions of interconnected parts, it'll work for every complex business on Earth. So BP,

they killed their old finance product.

Metropolis fired half the enterprise division and rebuilt Palunteer's commercial strategy from scratch.

Foundry was born and [music] BP was only the beginning. So by 2018, Palunteer was

the beginning. So by 2018, Palunteer was still losing money, if you can believe this, nearly 600 million a year. But by

2025, $1.18 billion in revenue in a single quarter, a $400 billion evaluation. They're poised for a $1

evaluation. They're poised for a $1 trillion future. Why? Because Palunteer

trillion future. Why? Because Palunteer

went from selling software that was losing money to selling consulting that was also losing money to finally becoming the brain inside [music] the

world's most powerful organizations.

Whether it be Deep Water Horizon or it could be Airbus to now CIA intelligence agency where you are getting the entire DoD where you can make billions of

dollars. So Palanteer was founded with

dollars. So Palanteer was founded with the main aim of working with [music] the military. It wasn't strange to use

military. It wasn't strange to use military lingo within the company. For

example, Palunteer referred to deployed engineers as deltas. Alex Karp in 2008 hired a former army banger named Doug Filippon to build Palunteer's defense business. This proved to be the right

business. This proved to be the right move. You see, Palanteer founders had no

move. You see, Palanteer founders had no idea how the military worked.

Intelligence agencies like the CIA or FBI relied on workflows to connect the dots. In the military, soldiers relied

dots. In the military, soldiers relied on maps to plan and run battles. So,

Doug had engineers adding a map application to Gotham. The same year, two elite squads started using Palanteer. But there was a problem. The

Palanteer. But there was a problem. The

Army was already supplying troops in Afghanistan, Iraq with a battlefield intelligence platform called DIGs. But

here comes the twist. DIGs was a complete failure. Apparently, it took

complete failure. Apparently, it took hours to learn, was hard to use, even for [music] experts, it crashed often, and it didn't work remote areas. Like

one unnamed officer who [music] served in Afghanistan said, DIGs was a piece of be totally hopeless. Many in the military were already fed up with DIGs,

so more units expressed interest in Palunteer software. One of them was the

Palunteer software. One of them was the [music] fifth striker brigade. Doug sent

two Palunteer engineers, Deltas, to represent the company in a field training exercise. Gotham outperformed

training exercise. Gotham outperformed any tool they had already used before.

From here, a strange pattern started appearing. The fifth sky brigade loved

appearing. The fifth sky brigade loved Palanteer. But when they were deployed

Palanteer. But when they were deployed in Afghanistan, they would not be allowed to use Palunteer, claiming D Sigs was better cuz they gave them the contract. It was only after losing more

contract. It was only after losing more than 30 soldiers that the army finally backed down and allowed the brigade to have Palunteer [music] software. Even

though the Pentagon had outrightly refused to use Gotham, Palanteer was not about to accept defeat, it kept sending its engineers on the field to help troops with the use of its software.

Members of Congress to pressure the Pentagon. Palanteer was already used by

Pentagon. Palanteer was already used by the Marines Afghanistan. However, the

Pentagon kept rejecting the use of Palanteer despite several proof that it outperformed DIGs. Then another turning

outperformed DIGs. Then another turning point came in December 2015. The Army

finally acknowledged DIGs was a bust and announced that it was shelving the initial Virgin. bids were open to build

initial Virgin. bids were open to build a better version. But there was a catch.

It indicated that it would only accept proposals to build the new system from scratch. It was not willing to consider

scratch. It was not willing to consider offthe-shelf products. This meant

offthe-shelf products. This meant Palunteer could not compete for the contract. Now, this was war. Palanteer

contract. Now, this was war. Palanteer

filed a complaint and later sued the army. It accused Army officials of

army. It accused Army officials of sacrificing the lives of soldiers in order to avoid having to admit that Deed Sigs had been a failure. This was all wrapped up in ego. But you see, in 2014,

SpaceX had sued the Air Force for awarding a no bid contract to a rival company to help launch National Security Satellites. The suit was settled the

Satellites. The suit was settled the following year when the Air Force agreed to open up the bidding processes for future launches. So, 4 months after

future launches. So, 4 months after Palanteer led the suit, the court handed it a crushing victory. Soon after, juicy Pentagon contracts came flowing in. The

Army awarded Palanteer and Rathon a 10-year, $876 million contract to replace the failed DIGs. It won a $440 million contract to build Vantage, a

system that checked troops readiness and available supplies. Palanteer also

available supplies. Palanteer also landed an $80 million deal to aid the Navy with logistics, all totaling nearly a billion dollars. Adding all the ongoing contracts with other federal agencies and the success in the private

sector, Palanteer was set to become profitable after doing business at a loss for more than 10 years. So by 2020, Palanteer was approaching a billion dollar in annual revenue and was

privately valued at around 20 billion.

Then on September 30th, Palanteer went public with shares opening at $10. But

while Palunteered appeared to be patriotic company, it actually had its own fair share of dubious practices and scandals like any company, especially one of surveillance. When Palanteer

first began working with the CIA, most analysts used another software called Analyst Notebook. So Palanteer made it

Analyst Notebook. So Palanteer made it impossible to transfer information in its software to Analyst Notebook. And to

be fair, it was vice versa. But in 2010, I too sued Palunteer for fraud and industrial espionage. It alleged that

industrial espionage. It alleged that Palunteer stole trade secrets in order to build the tools that would allow users to move their data from analyst notebook to Palunteer software.

Palanteer denied the allegations, but a year after I2 led suit, it agreed to settle the case for 10 million. So

there's a [music] settlement. However,

by the time Palanteer was still caught up in litigation with I2, it got into a bigger scandal. In February 2011, the

bigger scandal. In February 2011, the activist group known as Anonymous released thousands of emails from a Californiabased company called HB

[music] Gary Federal, which specialized in corporate intelligence. The messages

exposed Palunteer in a plot to wage a disinformation campaign [music] on behalf of Bank of America. The bank

feared that it would be targeted by Wikileaks, Julian Assange. So, it hired HB Gary Federal, which recruited Palunteer and another software company

to assist in launching preemptive strike. The emails revealed a scheme to

strike. The emails revealed a scheme to submit falsified information to Wikileaks, [music] which would then be revealed as fake to damage the group's credibility. [music]

credibility. [music] Another idea was to chart Wikileaks supporters. When word came out,

supporters. When word came out, Palanteer quickly released a statement to distance [music] itself from the controversy, but we all know what happened. Still, its biggest critics

happened. Still, its biggest critics came from its indirect connection with Donald Trump. Peter Teal, then the

Donald Trump. Peter Teal, then the [music] chairman of Palanteer, openly supported Trump during the 2016 presidential election. He even donated

presidential election. He even donated 1.25 million to Trump, a position which shocked not only the public, but Palanteer employees, including Alex Karp, who supported Hillary Clinton and

is [music] a fearsome libertarian. After

Trump became president, Palunteer was awarded a number of Pentagon contracts, which drastically boosted its revenue [music] and market value. Wink wink.

Yep, there probably was some deal there that got him those contracts. But it's

not all dark. Palanteer has been used as a force of good on several occasions, and I guess we should highlight them. In

2022, 3 years before Russia invaded Ukraine, Palanteer started working on Project Maven, the Pentagon's artificial intelligence program. Google refused to

intelligence program. Google refused to be part of due to employee strikes. But

Maven was a flop. For example, a sheep standing a field would be mistakenly [music] tagged as a man. However, once

Foundry, the Palunteer software, was integrated into the software, it started getting accurate results. By the time Russia invade Ukraine, Maven was used to track Russian troop movements. The US

shared this information with the Ukrainians, which helped them mount effective resistance during the first months of the war. Today, Palanteer is undoubtedly one of the most promising

companies in the world and controversial, which continues to innovate and still maintains an aura of secrecy. But at the same time,

secrecy. But at the same time, everything points to a dystopian, which Palanteer plays an intrusive role. One

thing is certain, with its increasing use of AI, Palunteer will help the government make sense of the massive information about you and me. The

question is, how far will it affect us?

Or how far has it already affected us?

Palanteer was made to catch bad guys, terrorists criminals undocumented immigrants, people who wanted to hurt others. But here's the scary part, and

others. But here's the scary part, and many people have been saying for years, what if the government started using it to watch regular people, too? And they

already are. I would put all my money on that. Palunteer can track where you go,

that. Palunteer can track where you go, who you [music] talk to, what you buy, what you do online. It can connect all your information in one place. That's

helpful when you're stopping real danger. But if someone in power decides

danger. But if someone in power decides you're the danger and because it's CIA backed and Inqel [music] gave the funding, they can watch you the same way they watch terrorists, joined a protest

they didn't like, spoke out online, like the wrong post. [music] A computer won't ask if you're actually bad. It will just follow you. And once a government learns

follow you. And once a government learns how to watch everyone, which we're entering this 1984 dystopia, it seems it's very hard for them to stop.

Especially for those who have [music] access to that power. You can't just turn it off. That's why people are worried. That's why I'm worried. Not

worried. That's why I'm worried. Not

because Palanteer is [music] evil, but because we've reached the surveillance state where they are monitoring us and really make you question what is privacy. So, there's lots of questions

privacy. So, there's lots of questions and not enough answers. [music] Not to mention, lots of past employees and current employees have written letters showing their concerns of possible surveillance state. [music] These are

surveillance state. [music] These are employees that were there.

>> It's one thing to criticize your former employer. It's taboo to do that.

employer. It's taboo to do that.

But to criticize an employer that [music] also owns extremely lethal technologies and surveillance technologies that are highly invasive and used in war zones is is something [music] else entirely. The fact that

we've entered the surveillance state and when things can be used under the quote necessary means for national security purposes really makes it vague and ambiguous and it's not very clear where

it's going. [music] So that's all I have

it's going. [music] So that's all I have for you guys. Thank you again. If you

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