Palantir Had Secret Plan to Crack UK’s NHS: ‘Buying Our Way In’

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Bloomberg used to be better. This is basically a non-story. The &#x27;secret plan&#x27; was to use the nefarious mechanism of... Buying access that was for sale. All the allusions to shadyhandedness are just there to justify the existence of a story about Palantir because the author knew a story about a controversial company would propagate better even if it was devoid of anything meaningful to say.

There are not few companies that do more damage to the societies on earth than they do good. Palantir must be easily in one of the top places of the worst offenders.

This is a pretty common practice in all sorts of industries. If you can’t compete somewhere, you buy someone who is already competing.

There has been talk of an EU version of Palantir for a while now. Anyone know what the latest news is? Technically it doesnt look like there is anything too complex about what Foundary does.

One employee suggests doing X in an email is not the same as “company has secret plan to do X”.

NHS should be aggressively acquiring data science talent.<p>Unfortunately current gov doesn&#x27;t give a shit about anything other than next week (science funding being cut to boost growth somehow)

do airbus and palantir now bloomberg

oh no, strategic m&amp;a to enter a new market, getting a customer base and acquihiring a team with local experience? that&#x27;s evil!<p>i have lots of issues with palantir&#x27;s applications spying on law abiding citizens and expanding government power but, uhh, this aint it chief.

There&#x27;s much to not like about Palantir. I&#x27;m particularly averse to the extreme puffery regarding their tech&#x27;s abilities, but buying your way into a market is far from nefarious.