Palantir CTO Blasts Silicon Valley’s ‘Doomsday Cult’ Over AI Safety — Says Pentagon Has 'Already Replaced' Anthropic

What happened: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, speaking on CBS News, rejected AI regulation calls, called the AI safety movement a "doomsday cult," and said the Pentagon replaced Anthropic's Claude models in Project Maven after a safeguards dispute. Key numbers: PLTR fell 0.50% in Monday premarket, closed Friday up 5.17% at Why it matters: Sankar said the Department of Defense saw no operational impact from dropping Anthropic, with OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia open-weight models as alternatives. He denied Palantir software caused civilian casualties in Minab, calling the reporting inaccurate. Market: -3.2% today ($221.30), +17.3% YTD, 1.0x vol — as of 23:45 UTC

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, speaking on CBS News, rejected AI regulation calls, called the AI safety movement a "doomsday cult," and said the Pentagon replaced Anthropic's Claude models in Project Maven after a safeguards dispute.

Sankar said the Department of Defense saw no operational impact from dropping Anthropic, with OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia open-weight models as alternatives. He denied Palantir software caused civilian casualties in Minab, calling the reporting inaccurate. Market: -3.2% today ($221.30), +17.3% YTD, 1.0x vol — as of 23:45 UTC