On or around July 1, 2026, Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp used a CNBC "Squawk Box" appearance to sharply criticize the business model of frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that companies pay token fees while their own data and IP are absorbed to improve the labs' models. Karp described the setup as a kind of "wealth tax" that businesses pay without generating value, and said many executives are privately livid. He also dismissed generative models as "slop" and called relying on Silicon Valley consensus for national defense insane. (Forbes)
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