Alex Karp's 'Supervillain' Manifesto Is Putting Palantir's Contracts at Risk
Source: Gizmodo
Palantir’s long-winded political mission statement posted over the weekend seems to be backfiring, potentially putting its government contracts in the United Kingdom at risk.
Several U.K. members of Parliament have publicly criticized the post, while other officials are signaling that the National Health Service (NHS) could back out of its seven-year, 330 million pound ($445.8 million) contract with the company early.
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“Palantir’s manifesto, which embraces AI state surveillance of citizens along with national service in the USA, is either a parody of a RoboCop film, or a disturbing narcissistic rant from an arrogant organisation,” said Martin Wrigley, a Liberal Democrat MP and member of the Commons science and technology select committee, The Guardian reported. “Either way it shows that the company’s ethos is entirely unsuited to working on UK government projects involving citizens’ most sensitive private data.”
Victoria Collins, another Liberal Democrat MP, said the manifesto sounded like the “ramblings of a supervillain.”
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Read more: https://gizmodo.com/alex-karps-supervillain-manifesto-is-putting-palantirs-contracts-at-risk-2000749105
Have any Democratic politicians criticized Palantir's manifesto? They should.
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And that all-in bet, along with the incestuous, circular deals among the top players artificially inflating values, added to the extreme concentration of wealth, and the fact that high-levels of spending by the extremely wealthy is about the only thing keeping the economy afloat, makes our economy as fragile as a playing card castle.
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Scott Galloway@profgalloway
Published on October 17, 2025
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If Mag 10 valuations are cut in half, the S&P and global markets would decline by 20% and 10%, respectively. In the U.S., the immediate impact would be felt by the wealthiest 10%, who own 87% of the stocks. Those households won’t struggle to pay their bills, but they may be the tail of the whip on the economy, as wealthy households have the luxury of decreasing their spending dramatically, vs. middle-class households, who spend the majority of their income on basics. If the top 10%, who account for half the consumer spending in the U.S., hit the brakes, the nation gets whiplash. I estimate that if the wealthy see their portfolios drop by 20%, we could see a 2-3% decline in GDP. For context: From peak to trough, the Great Recession registered a 4.3% drop in GDP.
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The AI infrastructure build-out has accelerated recently with an estimated $1 trillion in new commitments. Some firms are making deals with money and assets that don’t yet exist. See: OpenAI promising Oracle $300 billion — money it doesn’t have — for infrastructure Oracle hasn’t built. In other cases, revenue comes from “circular financing,” where dollars rotate between firms, obscuring true market demand. See: Nvidia’s $100 billion investment in OpenAI, which OpenAI will use to buy … Nvidia chips. Circular financing deals were common toward the end of the dot-com bubble, when similar deals contributed to a crash that destroyed 77% of Nasdaq market value. If we are on the precipice of a bubble popping, Nvidia and OpenAI will likely be ground zero. But the fallout would be widespread, as an ecosystem that resembles an ouroboros lives and dies by a shared narrative.
It 'IS' the ramblings of a supervillain! 
