Tag: Palantir
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EDITORIAL: Is Colorado creating an anti-innovation economy?
For decades, Colorado has been an incubator of high-tech and aerospace ingenuity. Unfortunately, the state’s revised reputation for smothering innovation is spreading. The Colorado Chamber of Commerce found that 98 companies left Colorado or decided against moving here, many in high-tech industries. Now, a Colorado-based innovator on the cutting edge of supersonic passenger travel could…
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EDITORIAL: Business HQs decamp from Colorado
Grim news last week: For the first time since the pandemic, Colorado’s job market lost 11,700 jobs — contracting at an annual rate of -0.4%. The Centennial State is among 27 states with year-over-year job losses, but a new report from the Colorado Chamber Foundation indicates Colorado-specific trends are at play. And they’re making things…
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Report: Palantir exit could deal $178M blow to Colorado economy
Palantir Technologies’ decision to move its headquarters from Colorado to Florida is raising fresh worries about the state’s business climate, with a new report warning the departure could shave hundreds of millions of dollars from Colorado’s economy and signal broader challenges for its technology sector. The artificial intelligence and software company, one of Colorado’s most…
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EDITORIAL: Palantir’s exit is Colorado’s wake-up call
Much already has been written about Palantir Technologies’ abrupt and troubling announcement on X last week it was exiting Colorado. The high-profile artificial intelligence and software company, co-founded by tech and venture capital VIP Peter Thiel, had moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, Calif., to Denver only six years ago. Now, it will decamp for…
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Palantir moves HQ from Denver to Miami
Palantir Technologies Inc., a large artificial intelligence and software company with many government contracts, including federal immigration forces and the U.S. military, is moving its headquarters out of Denver. “We have moved our headquarters to Miami, Florida,” the company posted on X on Tuesday. The location on the company’s profile is now shown as Miami.…
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Hickenlooper, Crow plan to donate campaign cash from Palantir execs to immigrant rights nonprofits
Two Democratic members of Colorado’s congressional delegation said this week that they plan to donate more than $100,000 received in campaign contributions from current and former employees of Denver-based firm Palantir Technologies to local nonprofits that assist immigrants and support civil rights. U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Rep. Jason Crow both landed on a…
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St. Benedict Monastery: Almost heaven
The 70-year-old St. Benedict’s Monastery near Aspen recently sold for $120 million, according to multiple media reports. Public records show the buildings and 3,700 acres of Capitol Creek Valley land sold to “a nondescript LLC” — as first reported by the Aspen Daily News and Aspen Journalism and later confirmed by the Wall Street Journal…
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One of the world’s most powerful, secretive companies calls Colorado home | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” a Palantir is a seeing stone used to watch over faraway places and communicate great distances. Users had to “possess great strength of will and of mind”…