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Palantir CEO Alex Karp used interviews with Axios and CNBC to cast his company as central to US economic growth, saying Palantir is growing the GDP and that most GDP gains now come from AI. He touted Palantir as a baller enterprise and argued America must lead in AI, invoking Yeats in an investor letter and rejecting cultural equivalence. Pressed on AI risks, he urged absorbing risk to outpace China, named social instability as the chief danger, and addressed surveillance worries with personal anecdotes while criticizing ideas such as government run grocery stores.

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