Palantir CEO Alex Karp says Trump has a point about the AI race: ‘there’s a real hesitance to adopt these kind of products in the West’

Palantir’s fourth-quarter earnings call turned into a geopolitical broadside as CEO Alexander Karp blasted Canada and much of Europe for falling behind in the artificial intelligence race, casting the global economy as a looming conflict between “AI haves” and “have-nots.”​

Speaking after Palantir reported 70% year-over-year revenue growth to $1.407 billion in the fourth quarter and a Rule of 40 score of 127, Karp argued that the company’s performance exposed a widening gap between countries...