Organization
Palantir
Data-analysis company chaired by Peter Thiel. The dossier tracks its US government contracts, including ImmigrationOS.
64 mentions across 1 edition.
Mentioned in
- [U]
…Mar 2026), Aspen and First Things - a table setting the theology against Direction 1's material interests (Palantir, Anduril, Founders Fund, AI deregulation), with the limits of each overlap; - reactions (opinion only), "What this doesn't show", gaps, and murky…
Changelog (v10 → v11, 20 Oct 2026)October 2026 - [V-s]
…days) and the Wānaka lodge refusals - Sovereign Individual influence - Haaretz settlement-funding investigation - Palantir's ImmigrationOS contract - Faith Office EO 14205 - CUFI's membership claim - Land's 2012 essay - AI policy executive orders (EO 14363 Genesis, EO…
Changelog (v1 → v2)October 2026 - [V]
- Who: co-founder of PayPal and Palantir (chairman), Founders Fund. Calls himself a "small-o orthodox Christian" (Guardian) [V] - Antichrist lectures, first series (San Francisco…
2.1 Peter ThielOctober 2026 - [V-s]
…Arizona PAC for Blake Masters, rising to about $20M (Politico, OpenSecrets) [V-s] - State contracts: ICE paid Palantir $30M for "ImmigrationOS" (April 2025, runs to Sept 2027) (Wired, USAspending) [V] - Yarvin: Founders Fund invested in Yarvin's Tlon/Urbit in 2013…
2.1 Peter ThielOctober 2026 - [V]
68. Each lecture city came with a government or Palantir angle. Paris: lunch with the foreign minister on "digital regulation", while Palantir serves the DGSI (Politico Europe). Rome: lawmakers asked for…
3. Murky and startling circumstancesOctober 2026 - [V]
…came with a government or Palantir angle. Paris: lunch with the foreign minister on "digital regulation", while Palantir serves the DGSI (Politico Europe). Rome: lawmakers asked for transparency on the government's Palantir ties (Fortune). Nashville: Vanderbilt's…
3. Murky and startling circumstancesOctober 2026 - [V]
…while Palantir serves the DGSI (Politico Europe). Rome: lawmakers asked for transparency on the government's Palantir ties (Fortune). Nashville: Vanderbilt's chancellor appears in Thiel's private Dialog network (Nashville Scene) [V] DOCUMENTED no deal or decision…
3. Murky and startling circumstancesOctober 2026 - surveillance and defense contracts (Palantir/ICE) - AI capex (Stargate) and federal preemption of state AI law (EO 14365) - arms, plus Gulf capital (PIF → Affinity) - energy and mineral access…
4. Convergence analysisOctober 2026- [U]
…and the Miami Herald in 2026. The organized-crime and intelligence history drawing on court records. The PayPal/Palantir surveillance links. - Critiques: - Reviewers cite circular and single-source claims (such as Summers on Hoover) and implied causal chains…
5. Whitney Webb assessmentOctober 2026 …coincide with the constraints on his companies and capital, and his "New Rome" is built from the capabilities Palantir and Anduril sell. But the thesis predates the AI boom, he now opposes the AI CEOs, and no lecture is tied to any contract or decision (Fortune…
6. ConclusionOctober 2026. Firm FY2023 FY2024 FY2025 FY2026 --- --- --- --- --- Palantir 348 541 1,021 1,979 Anduril 236 657 612 1,113 SpaceX 2,427 3,401 3,010 2,957 Axon (incl. Dedrone) 101 108…
Contract flows (USAspending obligations, $M)October 2026- [V]
1. Palantir's federal contract obligations roughly doubled each year: $541M in FY2024, $1.02B in FY2025, $1.98B in FY2026. That's 3.7× the Biden-era FY2024…
Contract flows (USAspending obligations, $M)October 2026 - [V]
…Maven Smart System, Oct 2025 - $145.0M for Army Vantage, Dec 2025 - $114.8M for FORSCOM, Aug 2025 - By contrast, Palantir's Air Force data platform ($116M, 7 offers) and USDA farm-IT ($94.7M) orders were competed. 3. Anduril roughly doubled in FY2026 to $1.11B. Its…
Contract flows (USAspending obligations, $M)October 2026 - [V-s]
…20 space-based interceptor awards worth up to $3.2B (Air & Space Forces) [V-s] - Reuters reports Anduril and Palantir are building Golden Dome software (Reuters, Mar 2026) [V-s] - Many Golden Dome awards are OTAs and don't appear in the USAspending numbers above…
Contract flows (USAspending obligations, $M)October 2026 - [V]
…Name-matching caveats apply; the top-100 cap understates totals. 9. Revolving door ( contracts/revolving ): - Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar was commissioned an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel (Detachment 201, 13 June 2025), along with executives from OpenAI and Meta…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - [V-s]
…201, 13 June 2025), along with executives from OpenAI and Meta (Army) [V-s] Seven weeks later the Army gave Palantir the $10B single-bid enterprise agreement. - OSTP director Kratsios is Thiel's former chief of staff, and AI czar Sacks has invested in Palantir…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - [V-s]
…enterprise agreement. - OSTP director Kratsios is Thiel's former chief of staff, and AI czar Sacks has invested in Palantir (FedScoop) [V-s] - Feinberg (Cerberus) was confirmed Deputy SecDef, and Emil Michael Under Secretary for R&E [V-s] 10. DOGE → Palantir: - At…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - [V-s]
…Feinberg (Cerberus) was confirmed Deputy SecDef, and Emil Michael Under Secretary for R&E [V-s] 10. DOGE → Palantir: - At least three DOGE members had worked at Palantir, and Palantir's selection as chief vendor for cross-agency data work "was driven by" DOGE (NYT…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - [V-s]
…Emil Michael Under Secretary for R&E [V-s] 10. DOGE → Palantir: - At least three DOGE members had worked at Palantir, and Palantir's selection as chief vendor for cross-agency data work "was driven by" DOGE (NYT, May 2025, entered into the House record: PDF) [V-s]…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - [V-s]
…Under Secretary for R&E [V-s] 10. DOGE → Palantir: - At least three DOGE members had worked at Palantir, and Palantir's selection as chief vendor for cross-agency data work "was driven by" DOGE (NYT, May 2025, entered into the House record: PDF) [V-s] - DOGE and…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - [V-s]
…cross-agency data work "was driven by" DOGE (NYT, May 2025, entered into the House record: PDF) [V-s] - DOGE and Palantir built an IRS "mega API," with the goal of making Foundry the "read center of all IRS systems" (Wired) [V-s] - The IRS stretched an existing…
Political money (FEC itemized, top records)October 2026 - Correlation is not quid pro quo. Palantir and Anduril growth began under Biden: Anduril nearly tripled from FY2023 to FY2024, and Palantir grew 55%. The Maven and ICE contracts predate Trump…
What this doesn't showOctober 2026…quid pro quo. Palantir and Anduril growth began under Biden: Anduril nearly tripled from FY2023 to FY2024, and Palantir grew 55%. The Maven and ICE contracts predate Trump 2.0. - Sole-source can be legitimate. FAR 6.302-1 covers proprietary software that only one…
What this doesn't showOctober 2026…SpaceX's standard contracts were flat despite Musk's roughly $290M, though Golden Dome changes the 2026–28 picture. Palantir's executives gave little (under $8M) relative to roughly $3B in obligations. - Industry-wide shift. Donations went to many GOP vehicles and some…
What this doesn't showOctober 202618. A single bid for $10B, and a CTO in uniform. The Army's Palantir enterprise agreement drew one bid. Its biggest task order ($637.6M, Maven) is coded sole-source. Palantir's CTO had been commissioned into the Army…
New murky itemsOctober 2026…Army's Palantir enterprise agreement drew one bid. Its biggest task order ($637.6M, Maven) is coded sole-source. Palantir's CTO had been commissioned into the Army Reserve seven weeks earlier. DOCUMENTED facts; no impropriety is shown, but the conflict-of-interest optics…
New murky itemsOctober 2026…DOCUMENTED facts; no impropriety is shown, but the conflict-of-interest optics are acute. 19. DOGE staff from Palantir steering work to Palantir, with access to IRS data, including potentially competitors' tax data. REPORTED (NYT, Wired). The scope of actual access is…
New murky itemsOctober 2026…impropriety is shown, but the conflict-of-interest optics are acute. 19. DOGE staff from Palantir steering work to Palantir, with access to IRS data, including potentially competitors' tax data. REPORTED (NYT, Wired). The scope of actual access is unclear 20. xAI's $0.42…
New murky itemsOctober 2026- [U]
…with Robin Hanson's ideas behind both) and the Founders Fund/Thiel-Fellow money (Krug). - Supported: the IAO-to-Palantir parallel is widely noted. - Not shown: any documented intent to revive PAM, and any government use of Polymarket data for intelligence [U: searched…
4.1 Prediction marketsOctober 2026 - [V-s]
- Satellogic–Palantir: a five-year partnership announced 1 Feb 2022 brings Palantir's Edge AI onto Satellogic satellites ("from space to mud," Shyam Sankar) (Satellogic)…
4.3 Argentina: satellites, AI and StargateOctober 2026 - [V-s]
- Satellogic–Palantir: a five-year partnership announced 1 Feb 2022 brings Palantir's Edge AI onto Satellogic satellites ("from space to mud," Shyam Sankar) (Satellogic) [V-s] - Stargate Argentina: a non-binding letter of intent…
4.3 Argentina: satellites, AI and StargateOctober 2026 - [U]
…2024): not verified this pass [U] - UH lead check: "Kargieman behind Stargate Argentina; Satellogic works with Palantir (and SpaceX) on predictive satellite surveillance; the state may become the data center's user" → LARGELY CONFIRMED on Kargieman and Palantir, and on…
4.3 Argentina: satellites, AI and StargateOctober 2026 - [U]
…predictive satellite surveillance; the state may become the data center's user" → LARGELY CONFIRMED on Kargieman and Palantir, and on the government as an intended AI user. The SpaceX tie and "predict the future" are unverified [U]
4.3 Argentina: satellites, AI and StargateOctober 2026 - [V-s]
- Palantir: ImmigrationOS for ICE, the IRS "mega API," growing HHS work, and NYT's reporting that it was chosen as vendor for cross-agency data (§D1 items 9–10)…
4.4 Data integrationOctober 2026 - [V-s]
…growing HHS work, and NYT's reporting that it was chosen as vendor for cross-agency data (§D1 items 9–10) [V/V-s] Palantir's stated position is that it is "not a data company": it says it doesn't collect, store or sell personal data and can't reuse client data (Palantir)…
4.4 Data integrationOctober 2026 - [V-s]
…is "not a data company": it says it doesn't collect, store or sell personal data and can't reuse client data (Palantir) [V-s] That is accurate as a business model, but integration is the capability that matters. - Flock Safety (licence-plate readers, ALPR): a…
4.4 Data integrationOctober 2026 …stablecoins with mandatory freeze capability, issued partly by politically connected firms) + data integration (Palantir across agencies; ALPR feeds) + prediction (event markets now inside regulated finance, through ICE and the CFTC). The common pattern is privatized…
How the strands connectOctober 2026…legally requiring, the same capabilities from private firms whose investors overlap (Founders Fund: Polymarket, Palantir, Anduril, Flock; MGX: Stargate, Binance/USD1).
How the strands connectOctober 2026…culmination Partly supported (rationale and freeze powers yes; "debt sink" speculative) Kargieman/Satellogic/Palantir and Stargate Argentina Largely confirmed HHS–Palantir expansion (PayPal Presidency I) Supported in general (Palantir HHS/CDC work documented…
Lead-check summary (Unlimited Hangout)October 2026…"debt sink" speculative) Kargieman/Satellogic/Palantir and Stargate Argentina Largely confirmed HHS–Palantir expansion (PayPal Presidency I) Supported in general (Palantir HHS/CDC work documented; specific HHS figures not pulled) "Technocratic" Trump…
Lead-check summary (Unlimited Hangout)October 2026…Stargate Argentina Largely confirmed HHS–Palantir expansion (PayPal Presidency I) Supported in general (Palantir HHS/CDC work documented; specific HHS figures not pulled) "Technocratic" Trump counter-elites (Iain Davis) Interpretive. Consistent with §D1…
Lead-check summary (Unlimited Hangout)October 2026…interest on its face; whether policy favors followed is unproven 32. A single founder spans Argentine satellites, Palantir integration and Stargate Argentina (Kargieman), with the Argentine state as the intended AI customer. DOCUMENTED ties; any surveillance end-use is…
New murky itemsOctober 2026- [U]
…(Pix) set against US private stablecoin and card interests. - Drex (the central bank's digital-currency project), Palantir in Brazil and Starlink versus Moraes not found or checked this pass [U]
Leads for Direction 6 (Brazil)October 2026 …government or regulator that promises "peace and safety") line up with his material interests from Direction 1 (Palantir and Anduril contracts, AI deregulation, Founders Fund holdings), and how far does that overlap go?
Direction 5: Thiel's Nashville lectures (added v11, 20 Oct 2026)October 2026- [V]
…named; about 30 protesters; lunch with Foreign Minister Barrot, whose aide listed "digital regulation" as a topic; Palantir serves France's DGSI and Airbus Politico Europe, Politico Europe (FR) [V] Rome Four lectures, Sunday 15 to Wednesday 18 Mar 2026, undisclosed…
5.3 Comparison with the earlier seriesOctober 2026 - [V]
…disowned it; Italian lawmakers called his ideas "scandalous" and asked for transparency on the government's ties to Palantir; Benanti's essay "should we burn Peter Thiel?" NCR (AP), CNN, Fortune [V] Between Rome and Nashville 30 June 2026, Aspen Ideas; 13 July 2026…
5.3 Comparison with the earlier seriesOctober 2026 - [V]
…for popularity (Fortune) [V] AI deregulation: the federal push to pre-empt state AI laws (EO 14365, §2.4). Palantir sells AI platforms (Maven, $637.6M sole-source order, §D1). Thiel Macro's 13F lists $418.7M in eight stocks at 30 June 2026: Amazon $118.0M, Vista…
5.4 The theology set against the material interests (Direction 1)October 2026 - [R]
…diverges from the leading AI CEOs The katechon must be a military superpower; the US is the New Rome (X) [R] Palantir ($1.98B in FY2026 obligations; the $10B single-bid Army agreement) and Anduril ($1.11B in FY2026) supply the US military (§D1) [V; USAspending]…
5.4 The theology set against the material interests (Direction 1)October 2026 - [V]
…from abuse scandals (Gizmodo) [V] The encyclical calls for greater international AI regulation (CNN) [V] Palantir does government business in Italy, where lawmakers asked for transparency on the government's ties to it during the Rome lectures (Fortune) [V] The…
5.4 The theology set against the material interests (Direction 1)October 2026 - [V]
…same Monday he lunched with France's foreign minister, whose aide listed "digital regulation" among the topics; Palantir serves the DGSI and Airbus (Politico Europe (FR)) [V] The lunch was at the minister's invitation, to discuss "differences of opinion" [V] Nothing…
5.4 The theology set against the material interests (Direction 1)October 2026 …capital. The New Rome he wants to restrain it is built from the military, payment and intelligence capability that Palantir and Anduril sell. Its limits are just as clear. The thesis is decades old and predates Palantir's AI revenue. He now stands against the AI CEOs, not…
5.4 The theology set against the material interests (Direction 1)October 2026…capability that Palantir and Anduril sell. Its limits are just as clear. The thesis is decades old and predates Palantir's AI revenue. He now stands against the AI CEOs, not with them. His own theology warns that the restrainer can become the Antichrist, which cuts…
5.4 The theology set against the material interests (Direction 1)October 2026… 27 Sep 2026 Ep 002 Stargate Argentina (Goodwin) OpenAI's Stargate Argentina; Satellogic working with Palantir and SpaceX on predictive satellite surveillance; Milei's AI state; Singularity University origins. Has chapters. 2.4 AI/Stargate; 2.1 Palantir…
Appendix A: Unlimited Hangout leads (to verify, not findings)October 2026…satellite surveillance; Milei's AI state; Singularity University origins. Has chapters. 2.4 AI/Stargate; 2.1 Palantir; Kurzweil (SU) 5 Oct 2026 Ep 003 The Bitcoin-Dollar (Goodwin) Stablecoins and Bitcoin as tools of dollar dominance; GENIUS Act; CBDC vs…
Appendix A: Unlimited Hangout leads (to verify, not findings)October 2026… PayPal Presidency I: Biotech & Biosurveillance (Max Jones) Thiel's influence on Trump's HHS; growing HHS–Palantir contracts. 2.1 Palantir 2 Apr 2025 PayPal Presidency II: The "Dark" Technate (Iain Davis) The philosophy behind Thiel and Musk…
Appendix A: Unlimited Hangout leads (to verify, not findings)October 2026…Biotech & Biosurveillance (Max Jones) Thiel's influence on Trump's HHS; growing HHS–Palantir contracts. 2.1 Palantir 2 Apr 2025 PayPal Presidency II: The "Dark" Technate (Iain Davis) The philosophy behind Thiel and Musk: neo-reaction, technocracy…
Appendix A: Unlimited Hangout leads (to verify, not findings)October 2026…"CIA-linked" architect of the surveillance state. "CIA-linked" likely refers to In-Q-Tel's early investment in Palantir; check that. 2.1, 2.2 12 Aug 2022 One Nation Under Blackmail (solo) An overview of the book's thesis. 2.9, 5 20 Sep 2022 Meet Mark…
Appendix A: Unlimited Hangout leads (to verify, not findings)October 2026- [V]
…largest announced investment figure, is ByteDance's The race is a US–China contest, and Brazil hosts both. [V] - Palantir: beyond the Satellogic link (Direction 4), no Palantir hosting or Latin American government data-center contract was found. [U]
7.6 The security framing: trusted stack, CLOUD Act, TCUOctober 2026 - [V]
…race is a US–China contest, and Brazil hosts both. [V] - Palantir: beyond the Satellogic link (Direction 4), no Palantir hosting or Latin American government data-center contract was found. [U]
7.6 The security framing: trusted stack, CLOUD Act, TCUOctober 2026 - [U]
…NSA. - He says there is "no need today for hyperscalar data centers for AI". On his account they exist because Palantir, Oracle and others use "1980s technology". - He says a 92-hour data-center job ran in nine minutes on a handheld Apple computer "that uses less power…
7.8 US opposition contextOctober 2026 …company-stated (Pecém R$200bn vs R$580bn; Rio US$10bn; X8 5 GW) and may never be built (Stargate Argentina). - Palantir has no documented Latin American government data-center role.
7.10 What this doesn't showOctober 2026…original hearing's venue and date, and the original TikTok. - Other: evangelical polling for 2026 in Peru and Chile; Palantir in Latin American governments. - Brazil's alignment after the 25 Oct runoff. See Scheduled updates.
7.12 Gaps still openOctober 2026…Chinese Communists" Fortune, Rome (16 Mar) link Yes Started on Sunday; Benanti; Italian lawmakers and Palantir AP and Reuters on Rome AP, Reuters No (403; 401) AP text read via NCR First Things, "The Pope and the Antichrist" link Yes…
Appendix E: Verification log (v11, Direction 5)October 2026