Nobody wants to buy a service they can’t walk away from. Palantir’s critics have long claimed we ‘lock in’ our customers. We don’t. This short film explains why. It’s the first in a series on the gap between the rhetoric about Palantir and the work we actually do.

🚨🇷🇸 NEW: Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in snap parliamentary elections to Ilija Srdanović's student-led opposition movement 56.0% sample of CeSID / Ipsos parallel count 🔴 Student List: 139 seats (New) - 52.0% (New) 🔵 SNS+: 104 seats (-6) - 39.3% (-8.8) 126 seats needed for a majority The vote ends 14 years of rule by Vučić's right-wing Serbian Progressive Party following two years of widespread youth-led anti-government protests

Europe’s technology story is shaped not only by the companies building it, but by the people telling it. 📰 🇪🇺 From journalists breaking stories on major tech companies and emerging startups to PR professionals building the profiles of ambitious businesses, these voices play an important role in how European innovation is understood. In this article, we highlight 50 Influential journalists and communications professionals who are covering and shaping the conversation around Europe’s technology ecosystem. Read in full: eu-startups.com/2026/10/top-…

AI is making it easier to discover security vulnerabilities. But increasingly capable Chinese open-source models could leave defenders with far less time to fix them. The Information's @leomschwartz explains why the cybersecurity advantage enjoyed by defenders may be disappearing. “You're not going to have two months anymore. You might not even have a few days.” Read more: thein.fo/4zOZTf2

Gabriel, suppose a 25-year-old founder has a stake worth $1B on paper in a startup that just raised $100M at a $3B valuation. The company received that money - not the founder. Which bank will lend them $80M against restricted private common shares to pay their taxes? 99% of banks wont do this. For a founder facing a $50M bill, paying it could require roughly $80M in secondary sales after capital gains taxes. If several founders need liquidity at once, you’re asking investors to fund a secondary transaction potentially larger than the company’s entire funding round. I promise you there will be no buyers of secondary shares of that amount. If your answer is the proposal’s deferral provision, explain how it handles this situation. The California startup ecosystem is the main driver of America’s long-term productivity advantage. The US grew roughly 2.5 times as fast as France last year. Your ideas about about to destroy that. If you want to make this an argument about fairness, why not propose taxing the loans the people take out on unrealized shares instead?