Post by Osama Abdullah

Given Palantir’s manifesto and its increasingly aggressive flirtation with techno-fascist politics, will Swiss companies keep pretending this is just another software vendor? Looking at you, Swiss Re, Novartis, and Ringier. https://lnkd.in/eA8tRgjd Swiss Re and Novartis are in the deep and have reportedly been Palantir customers since 2018 and 2019 respectively. Ringier is expected to remain a customer until 2029. So the question is: How much political, reputational, security, and governance baggage are Swiss firms willing to carry? Because the issue is not only whether Palantir “works.” The issue is what kind of infrastructure Swiss companies are becoming dependent on, under what legal regime, with what security assumptions, and with what political baggage attached. Palantir may call itself a software company. But for Swiss firms, this is not only a software procurement decision, it is a governance decision.