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Stop Giving Away Your Data

Rail shipping has been a “take it or leave it” service for far too long. Technology needs to change that.

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Byron Porter
Jul 03, 2026
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp made some waves on CNBC (as he usually does), when he warned companies about sharing their data with the Frontier models. From the interview,

“The basic view among enterprises in this country is I’m going to chill-lax and waste my time with tokens. I’m going to get no value and they’re going to get my IP.”

There is a lot of truth to this - “Tokenmaxxing,” anyone? The way some companies are approaching AI implementation is by incentivizing their engineers to just use as many tokens as possible. I’ve no idea who thought this was good idea.

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