Stefano Della Pietra

GonzoTech

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.

The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.

I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.

Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:

"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."

I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.

Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.

I meant it.

I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.

The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.

I am talking about the other companies.

Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.

The company that got the contract was OpenAI.

OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.

Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.

I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.

The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.

The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.

Here is the thing I want you to understand.

I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.

The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.

The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.

The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.

What I described is already happening.

[Claude @claudeai]

Our latest Claude Code hackathon is officially a wrap.

500 builders spent a week exploring what they could do with Opus 4.6 and Claude Code.

Meet the winners:

[Wes Roth @WesRoth]

https://t.co/iGpTAhUjJl

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

quando dicono “trasformazione digitale”, quello che intendono è:
- compilare un PDF con SPID
- ricevere un assessment da una società accreditata che ti dice che non usi abbastanza la PEC
- installare un gestionale “cloud” fatto in Java 8 con interfaccia del 2006, ma hostato su Aruba, quindi va bene per Bruxelles

Ti digitalizzano, ma con il freno a mano tirato, l’F24 in tasca e il badge del Ministero sul desktop.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Europe is cooked

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

Happy trans day of visibility
Not to be confused with International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia,
Agender Pride Day, Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness Day, Pride Month, International Non-Binary People’s Day, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, Bisexual Awareness Week, Bisexuality Day, LGBT History Month, National Coming Out Day, International Pronouns Day, Asexual Awareness Week (Ace Week), Intersex Awareness Day, Transgender Awareness Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Trans Parent Day.

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

@UPS_IT @UPSHelp Ho pagato oltre 500€ per una spedizione che UPS Italia ha rispedito indietro SENZA AVVISARMI.
Nessuno mi ha chiamato. Nessuno mi ha scritto. Avevano tutti i miei contatti. Ho scoperto il reso SOLO dal tracking.
Come garantite che non succeda di nuovo?
Tracking 1Z3A10336762691615.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Announcing The Stargate Project

The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.

The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.

Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.

As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.

This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.

All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.

[Sam Altman @sama]

funny, they never sent me one of these for contributing to democrats...

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

🔥🔥

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

https://t.co/8ou9LXQSaE

[depin_jesus @depin_jesus]

🎄💡lightbulb moment during my xmas holidays:

the concept of DePIN is instantly interesting to people, and it genuinely sparks curiosity!

to me this means only one thing: VIRALITY!

when I tell my family and friends back home that they can mine crypto tokens with their laptops, phones, or even by just buying relatively inexpensive devices, they first don't believe me, then I show some example and they're instantly hooked. My friend in aviation is now digging into @wingbits, my 15 year old nephew is now obsessed with DePIN AI projects and is mining @getgrass_io, and the list goes on and on.. you don't have to understand the intricacies of any network.. you only need to understand that you can get crypto, i.e. money just by using your devices.

⚡️ This is POWER! ⚡️

if people can argue with you whether $BTC is a store of value or not, they can't argue with the simple fact that your laptop can make you money while you use it.

it's great to unplug from "our world" of web3, and just be with non-crypto people for a while.. I'm learning a lot by answering people's questions, understanding what they think "of us" and gauging their interest/understanding.

what do you guys think about this? have you noticed the same kind of experience? share your experiences with family and friends talking about DePIN/crypto over the holidays in the comments below 👇

many wishes everyone!! 🧡

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

@CryptoConBro Check out this song! https://t.co/R0O6lrlGrU

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Repeal the EU AI Act.

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

@nfttank @itsolelehmann hi from italy...they blocked it here at first..."privacy" concerns

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Day of a European in 2025

- wakes up
- likes a meme on x, gets arrested
- tries to use AI, blocked
- drinks water, bottlecap gets stuck
- opens browser, 48 cookies
- wants to watch a workout on YT, blocked
- buys coffee, pays 50c extra for the cup
- clicks to buy a product, no EU shipping
- starts a website, gets fined for GDPR
- orders meat, gets shamed for destroying planet
- tries to start company, gets sued
- repeat

[Stefano Della Pietra @Idealpot]

@levelsio They hesitated because they really care about safety……

[arkreen @arkreen_network]

🚀 A sneak peek at the insightful discussions at DeEnergy #Token2049 with industry thought leaders:

🎙 Giuseppe De Luca @depin_jesus , IoTeX @iotex_io
🎙 Matthew Fontana @mattofontana , Streamr @streamr
🎙 Mark Ballandies @BallandiesMC , WiHi @WiHiWeather
🎙 Moderated by Fredrik Ahlgren @frahlg , Srcful @srcful

Topic: "The 'P' in DePIN: Progress or Passing Fad?" 🌍💡

🙏 Thanks for the fruitful discussion! Together, we’re on the journey toward a global decentralized energy future 🌱💚 #DePIN #DeGEN #DeEnergy #GreenEnergy