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Palantir Technologies Shares Surge After Quarterly Revenue Jumps Ninety-Three Percent

Palantir Technologies reported major revenue growth driven by rising demand for artificial intelligence services from government and commercial customers, sending its stock sharply higher.
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Spain and Morocco Trade Blame After 72,000 Migrants Enter Ceuta
Apple Seeks Court Order to Stop OpenAI Using Alleged Trade Secrets
Breaking With the Past: One of the World’s Smallest Countries Changes Its Name
AI Is Remaking the US Economy, From GDP Growth to iPhone Prices
Comcast: Tied to a Chair and Hit in the Face With Cake: The Regular Humiliation Ritual at the US Corporate Giant
Indonesia’s Free School Meals Plan Has Been Hit by Poisoning, Corruption and Cuts
Aston Martin Faces Legal Threat Over £550m Rescue Deal
US and Japan Step In to Support the Yen in Rare Joint Intervention
The AI Pricing Problem: Companies Cannot Predict Their Own Bills
Europe’s Heat and Drought Are Now Disrupting Power, Shipping and Tourism
Apple’s OpenAI Lawsuit Becomes a Public Fight Over AI Hardware
UK Man Jailed After Keeping His Mother’s Body in a Freezer and Claiming £78,000
A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon — and Scientists Hope to Watch
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