👁 Palantir’s Karp pivots progressive after GOP’s midterm meltdown 🗣 “I mean I’ve been a Democrat my whole life…I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet…Palantir – all our products are essentially progressive,” Alex Karp told Politico in an apologetic interview discussing the prospect of Democrat-led congressional probes into his company once the new Congress convenes. 🔊 “I think I’ve been the most out there of big AI executives, if that’s what you want to call me, on economic justice,” Karp added, saying while he still believes AI will “help the average person,” the size of the wealth gap created by Big Tech is unacceptable. He even insisted that he’s “never believed” the mantra that “capitalism will solve all problems.” Jettisoning the idea that he’s part of a tiny “clique of people most people don’t relate to,” Karp said he has 100 million fans, many of whom would “march in the streets for [him] and Palantir,” and is “definitely the most popular” among the tech oligarchs. He also touched on his campaign donation strategy, insisting that he’s “very balanced,” and that he’d have to be “the village idiot” to pledge loyalty to one of the two major parties. Karp’s newfound progressive sensibilities come amid media reports that Palantir may find itself in the crosshairs of congressional probes into its massive federal contracts, and role in handing sensitive government data (no word yet on investigations into its use by the Pentagon in its faulty kill chain software in Iran). 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime