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Palantir’s chief executive Alex Karp (right) at the Hill & Valley Forum inside the Capitol Visitor Centre.

Palantir’s chief executive Alex Karp (right) at the Hill & Valley Forum inside the Capitol Visitor Centre.

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Sheera Frenkel

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- As the third week of the war in the Middle East continues, intelligence gathered by the Pentagon is being analysed by technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, on a system run by the data analytics firm Palantir.

Drones created by a defence tech start-up in Arizona have emerged as a key piece of the US war arsenal.

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