Defense contractor Palantir says ‘massive cultural shift in the U.S.’ has justified 20 years of thankless toil. ‘We were the freak show … and we spent 20 years for this moment’

• Palantir CEO Alex Karp is feeling vindicated as corporate America warms up to his company’s flagship AI offering and revenues from its bread-and-butter government work continue to increase in the DOGE era. Karp is known for his brazen and philosophical commentary, but it doesn’t appear to have gotten in the way of results. 

Palantir’s commitment to serving U.S. military and intelligence agencies long made it an outlier in Silicon Valley. For years, CEO Alex Karp recalled...