Brings back memories that around 2011 or 2012, Palantir came to our absolutely rock solid counterterrorism analysis unit to pitch some new tech that would build reports and briefing slides for us. Complete with analysis of the raw intel used to build both. We laughed, no new tech could
“The report, according to one of the sources, was ‘entirely false.’ But it also ‘almost started a war,’ the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.”
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The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war