Peter Thiel

Spain is directing its state-controlled companies — Telefónica, Indra, Navantia and firms under the SEPI holding — to drop the US data-analytics firm Palantir, citing the risk of misuse of classified national-security information.

The thread refused the clean sovereignty story. One reading: Palantir is being pushed out precisely because it is better, and Europe is dodging an uncomfortable capability gap. Another: the concern was never security but who is paying — so why not just let Spain's own Indra do the work?

Anthropic's policy (published June 8, effective July 8) says it may ask users to verify age or identity, collecting a government ID image, a face photo or video, and facial-geometry templates that may count as 'biometric data.' Reaction ran to passports, Peter Thiel, and fleeing to open-weight models.

A high-karma commenter cut through it with receipts: ID verification quietly rolled out months ago. Another named the real bind - governments demanding both child-safety age-gates and accountability after an AI-encouraged shooting.

The leaked 'Dialog' network, linked to Peter Thiel, kept returning to one theme: AI will reorder work, war, education and belief within a few years.

The puncture line: a secret cabal running the world, on AirTable. Wired never used the word 'cabal' that Esquire's headline did.