😺 WTF is up with Palantir?

PLUS: Did Advanced Voice Mode just leak its training data?!

Welcome, humans.

Does your advanced voice mode ever do…IDK, weird stuff? Check out this example that sounds like this guy accidentally broke the seal on some of AVM’s training data:

If you’re the voice actor who plays this AI… can you confirm? Was this you in there?

*Horrified expression* oh no… what if this whole time, there was no AI after all…and instead, what we think is AI is just some actual guy trapped in your phone!

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

We deep dive on Palantir to explain what it does and why it’s trending.
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Palantir is lowkey crushing it right now…so who are they, and what do they do?

It looks like one of the newest benefactors of the AI boom is Palantir—that’s the trending AI company founded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel wayyy back in 2003.

While most AI companies were busy building chatbots and image generators, Palantir spent two decades becoming the special forces of enterprise AI.

Their secret sauce? Building platforms that help organizations make sense of massive amounts of data. Here’s what they offer:

Gotham helps intelligence agencies connect dots across datasets (it may have helped find Bin Laden).
Foundry does the same for businesses, from supply chains to factory operations.
Palantir’s new AI Platform integrates various AI models (like Claude) into these systems.

What sets Palantir apart is their approach: instead of just selling software, they embed engineers directly with clients to build custom solutions. Here’s a 2-min explainer:

Understanding Palantir: What the Company Really Offers

And the headlines have been trending well for Palantir lately, too:

Partnering with Anthropic to bring Claude to intelligence agencies through their ultra-secure IL6 environment (that’s one level below top secret…)
Helping Wendy's automate their $1 Frosty supply chain decisions.
Like we said yesterday, they’ll potentially play a big role in Trump's proposed “AI Manhattan Project.”

Oh yeah, and Palantir’s recent earnings call went well, with Q3 earnings up 30% year over year due to demand for its commercial business—according to their CEO, “we absolutely eviscerated this quarter.”

Here’s the thing, though—it ain’t all roses. Financial outlets are saying the company is overvalued big time right now. They’ll need to maintain growth while reaching consistent profitability, plus navigate privacy concerns and criticism over their ties to the military.

Oh, and FYI, this is for educational purposes only—Not financial advice!!

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Around the Horn.

Paper here

Baidu, the “Google of China”, will release AI smart glasses (powered by its AI model, Ernie) with built-in cameras in early 2025 for ~$299.
Amazon wants to invest more in Anthropic, but it wants Anthropic to train its new Claude models on AWS chips; the problem is, Anthropic prefers NVIDIA.
There’s a new open-source processor for self-driving cars that helps them drive more safely by processing sensor data faster + uses 30% less power.

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