{"id":193001,"date":"2025-12-09T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/palantir-the-worlds-scariest-company-podcast-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:20:42","slug":"palantir-the-worlds-scariest-company-podcast-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/palantir-the-worlds-scariest-company-podcast-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir: the world\u2019s \u2018scariest company\u2019? \u2013 podcast &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How far will tech firm Palantir go to \u2018save the West\u2019? With Michael Steinberger and Johana Bhuiyan<br \/>Why do some consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/palantir\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Palantir<\/a> the world\u2019s \u2018scariest company\u2019 and who is its chief executive, Alex Karp?<br \/><strong>Michael Steinberger<\/strong>, the author of The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State, describes Karp\u2019s origin story to <strong>Nosheen Iqbal<\/strong> and the way that his political positions have changed over the years. The pair also discuss how Palantir was established as a company, the services that it offers, its close relationship to the US military and how Karp has been navigating the second Trump presidency.<br \/><strong>Johana Bhuiyan<\/strong>, a senior tech reporter and editor at Guardian US, outlines what we know about Palantir\u2019s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the US and NHS data in the United Kingdom.<br \/><strong><em>Support the Guardian today:<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><em> theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNcHl5STZNVWVhdUJ1OUN4MFBRbjYyM1U0RDlFbWJoMUZfa0szWkF3VUttLWhXalRuRjNkWnV5bzNtQmV3VVRyVkdrTjlSN21fa3k3eUx6QWF1S3pXbFhHbUJhYnNvZE5CV3RyaTZ5MFdqYWd2YWRvME1ZVlhBNVU2SS0zTGt5UUREaFJKdzRDMDRzQnlPR2JrVlowSQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far will tech firm Palantir go to \u2018save the West\u2019? With Michael Steinberger and Johana BhuiyanWhy do some consider Palantir the world\u2019s \u2018scariest company\u2019 and who is its chief executive, Alex Karp?Michael Steinberger, the author of The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State, describes Karp\u2019s origin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}