Michael Steinberger

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509 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3 Jul

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The Bulwark Daily · Catherine Rampell and Michael Steinberger: Trump Wants to Cook the Books · 17 Dec 2025 podcast

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The Daily · Inside the Tech Company Powering Trump’s Most Controversial Policies · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

Thank you for having me.

Well, first, I should say that it's a quite secretive company.

A lot of its work is done with intelligence services, the military.

So there's a lot of stuff they do that they can't talk about that we can't know about.

The work is also technologically quite complex.

Essentially, Palantir makes software that enables organizations to make faster, better use of their data.

Typically, we're talking about large organizations that collect sizable quantities of data to

Palantir's software pulls in all the data, merges it, and then finds patterns, trends, connections in that data, stuff that might elude the human eye.

One very powerful example of Palantir's work was in the war in Ukraine.

Palantir's software is the backbone for the Pentagon's AI-driven targeting program.

And this was used extensively in the first months of the war to help the Ukrainians withstand the Russian assault.

So a lot of satellite data was being pulled in by the U.S.

military, along with intercepted Russian communications.

And the U.S.

military was able to say to the Ukrainians, OK, here's where there's a troop formation.

There's a general here.

If you fire a missile at these coordinates, you might be very happy with the results.

And Palantir's technology was instrumental to this and played a very significant role in enabling the Ukrainians to withstand the initial Russian assault.

It not only prompts a lot of concern, many people regard Palantir as possibly the most dangerous company in the world.

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