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Planter CEO Alex Carp is speaking on April 30 at a panel of a hill and valley forum in the US capital. Kevin Diet/Getty Images Hide captions
Alex Carp, CEO of the Palletteer, could not allow his enthusiasm.
He was on the call to earn a earnings with shareholders from the data mining company in February. His profit was the sky. The carp was bursting happily.
“We’re doing this! We’re doing it!” CarP Said in surprise. “And I’m sure you are as enjoying as much as I am!”
In fact, there is a lot to enjoy the carp and the palantier investors.
Planter – This name comes from the “watching stones” of the Lord of the Colors – it is on the rise: its stock market price has increased from 50 billion to $ 300 billion a year ago. The company, which has some outskirts of tech and national security, is now higher than Verizon or Disney and a higher price like Bank of America.
“The planner is here to disrupt and create companies that partners with the best of the world here, and when they need to frighten their enemies and kill them on this occasion,” Carp said on the investor’s call.
Promoting how the company’s products help kill, it is an extraordinary corporate pitch, but it is a sign of the carp’s broth and bombing. They Once said They would love to sprinkle their critics with a “lightweight phenothenyl urine urine.”
The 57 -year -old billionaire with a tosal -haired neocalsical social theory is a doctorate, and she can be found when she is not a philosophical about the paleletter. Nordic skiing Or are practicing Tai Chi (they Holds Wooden Tai Chi Sword in his office).
He described himself as a “progressive fighter” whose support for the Democrats in the past years, including Kamla Harris for the president, has been contrary to a billionaire, which is a billionaire of President Trump. Long -lasting backers. Where the carp and bag integration data are surrounded by shared devotion to develop intelligence tools, as is the carp Put it“Get the West to its clear, natural superiority.”
Now in Trump’s second term, the planner is emerging as an important private contractor as the administration accelerates crackdowns on people who are without legal status in the United States.
From Gaza to Trump’s immigration crackdown
Although the company is famous, it is sometimes covered by its technology.
Plantier’s AI software Used Israeli defense forces to attack targets in Gaza. This department is used to assist the defense In the analysis Drone footage; And the Los Angeles Police Department Relying on On the planner’s “prediction policing” tools to predict crime samples.
“We are nothing. We do not want to be our luxurious commodity – we want to be an individual titan that is dominating their industry or battlefield.” Said In the November income call.
On January 5, 2023, a pelletter sky cut appears on the company’s booth during a CES trade show in Las Vegas. The Sky Kit has a planting software, as well as UV drone, a trail camera, battery pack and Space X -star link terminal, with a self -containing defense intelligence package that is deployed for a chronic environment. Patrick Tea Fallon/AFP by Getty Images Hide captions
Immigration and Customs Implementation Displays the record The planner recently received a $ 30 million contract to create a platform to track the movement of immigrants in real time.
Wired And Cnn It is reported that the Planner is being tapped through the performance of the Elon Musk department to make the master immigration database to accelerate exile. And the dodge Have rented Many former planner employees.
The new planner’s new work with the Trump administration is after two decades of government deal. In November, the planner Unharmed Nearly $ 1 billion in software contract with the Navy. Ever since Trump took power, the planner and even more government works and the company’s stock watching the stock Has grown More than 200 % from a day after Trump was elected.
“Political connectivity and travel with Peter Thame and Elon Musk,” said Michael McGrath, a former chief executive of I2, a data confrontation with a planner, “said Michael McGrath. “It deals come fast without negotiation and pressure.”
Venture Capitalist calls for the planner to ward off his technology abuses
With the increase in the profile of the palantier, its critics are getting higher.
Following the news of the company’s supply to the Trump administration with help in immigration implementation and deportation, Paul Graham, a prominent investor of Silicon Valley Accused The Pelantier of the “construction of the state infrastructure of the state” pledges to pledge to build a product with a planner executive on the X that can be used to help the US government violate citizens’ constitutional rights.
The World Head of Planter for Commercial, Ted Mabri, Replied That the company has “promised this in many ways since Sunday” and that planner employees “believe that they are making the world a better place every day.”
In an email exchange with the NPR, Graham said he was disappointed with the planner’s response.
Graham wrote to the NPR, “The planner can try to follow the Hofi and cannot answer that it is unimaginable that the US government will do this. But with this administration it is clearly thinking.” “This is the kind of administration where we may need stencilo Petrov,” he said, citing the Soviet Lieutenant Colonel. “We need to know if companies like Palter are ready to do so.”
Plantier refused to comment on the story. The White House did not return a comment.
Former Plantier Employee Trump speaks against the work of the administration
Former Plantier employee Joan Sebastian Pinto said in an interview to the NPR that the company has built its brand on the same basis that has made it able to criticize it.
“And that is, they claim to be a company that supports Western values,” said Pinto. “They express their views about civil rights and freedom of speech, but now they are supporting an administration that is challenging democracy in new ways.”
Pinto, who lives in Denver, where the planner is based, wrote a Article in February In which he raised the alarm about how the sophisticated surveillance of the tech firm and the AI tools were being used in the war in Gaza and to accelerate exile by the Trump administration.
Geoan Sebastian Pinto is a former pilest employee who is raising a danger of the company’s latest technology in the Trump administration. Provided by the Juan Sebastian Pinto Hide captions
He represented an extraordinary abuser by a former Palantier employee, where Pinto said, workers usually leave after signing legal documents that they make sure they will not dislike the company. Pinto did not sign such an agreement when it left the company at the end of 2022 as a content strategy.
“What I was really doing is basically helping a company aid to create monopoly on artificial intelligence decision -making, and targeting the federal government first,” he said, saying that the federal government is an easy target for business, because its software capabilities are far behind the planner.
The company has justified its contracts in the past, saying that it is undivided, which has worked in several administrations.
Former Tech executive, McGrath, said it was true that both the democratic and the Republican administration had provided the planner, as it gained fame for monitoring and data manning tech in Washington.
He said, “His platform tax declarations, employment information, his immigration status, how many children they have, whether their children are legal or illegal.
Pinto said these risks deserve further discussions and investigations – which is why as a former employee, it is important to highlight the social implications of planner services.
“I can’t just live in the world where my grandchildren should be prosecuted through a database where their daily activities, including social media posts, are tracked and used, for citizens, as a dictatorial government policing database, and used.” “I don’t want to live in this world, and I think it is worth risking my career and even my personal safety.”
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