Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain

In case you haven't gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company [...]

Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, [...]

Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In th [...]

'Why we must fight Palantir' — NymVPN CEO shares his anti-Palantir manifesto

Nym CEO Harry Halpin has responded to Palantir's controversial manifesto, condemning the company's recent pro-military stance and calling for developers to build decentralized privacy tools [...]

UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract

A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contract with the American company. The [...]

A Pentagon memo tells staff to spend $244m with Palantir. Its subject line is ‘Funding Palantir’

Government software is usually bought by asking several companies to bid. A department writes down what it needs, suppliers compete, and the file records why the winner won. A memo drafted inside the [...]

Palantir’s Karp says Sanders will regret only asking for 50% of AI companies. Full nationalization is coming.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says full nationalization of AI companies is coming, and that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal for 50% public ownership will soon look moderate. “In two years, they’re not [...]

Palantir’s ‘AI sovereignty’ manifesto is a war on how AI makes money

Palantir has a new enemy, and it is the way most of the AI industry makes money. Its nine-point manifesto tells institutions to hoard their data, own their model weights, and stop “tokenmaxxing.” [...]