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This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Waylon Wong here with Daryan Woods.

Hello.

Hello.

And darkening, nay, brightening, the indicator doorstep is the astonishing Amanda Aroncic.

I was like darkening, I only bring lightness and joy.

It's true.

Amanda, you have delighted us at quite an opportune moment because right now, on this day this very second is indicators of the week what i had

no idea that that's why i was here a surprise well i hope you brought an indicator because on today's

episode we have palantia sales. The health department cuts more.

And for a billion dollar database, a new home is in store.

That's all after the break.

Darian, it is indicators of the week.

What is your indicator?

My indicator is $1 billion. That's how much sales the data company Palantia made over the last quarter. It's quite a big increase.

That's a lot of money. I didn't make a billion dollars this week. So a lot of this growth comes from Palantia's growing contracts with the Trump administration. And to understand what it's doing there,

I'll explain what Palantir does as a company. That would be helpful because I feel like I kind of know,

but I don't really know. So Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel of PayPal fame a couple of years after 9-11. And the idea was they could take similar anti-fraud software that PayPal used and apply this to combating terrorism.

And so now Palantir has a few lines of work, like helping private companies with AI.

But a lot of it revolves around integrating data sets from around government departments, mostly for intelligence and the military.

A big one for the company is software called Palantir Gotham.

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