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'Palantir present as at the cutting edge of everything. The reality of what they actually do is so different. They don't build things, they're not at the cutting edge of AI.'
Peter Geoghegan talks to Thomas Jones about Palantir's origins, rapid rise and expansion into the British state, on the LRB Podcast.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/usR9lZoXaqY
ABOUT THE LRB
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.
'Palantir present as at the cutting edge of everything. The reality of what they actually do is so different. They don't build things, they're not at the cutting edge of AI.'
Peter Geoghegan talks to Thomas Jones about Palantir's origins, rapid rise and expansion into the British state, on the LRB Podcast.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/usR9lZoXaqY
ABOUT THE LRB
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.
