HHS Used Palantir AI Tools to Target DEI in Grants, Documents Show
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) used artificial intelligence tools from Palantir Technologies to screen grants, grant applications, and job descriptions for compliance with former President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and gender ideology, according to a recently published inventory of HHS's AI use cases in 2025. The use of Palantir's software for these purposes was not publicly announced by either Palantir or HHS.
The inventory revealed that HHS had been using the AI tools since March 2025. During the first year of Trump's second term, Palantir received over $35 million in payments and obligations from HHS alone, according to Wired. However, the descriptions for these transactions did not mention the work targeting DEI or gender ideology.
In other news regarding AI implementation, enterprises are increasingly recognizing retrieval as a foundational system dependency when adopting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to ground Large Language Models (LLMs) in proprietary data, according to VentureBeat. Failures in retrieval can propagate directly into business risk, undermining trust, compliance, and operational reliability. "Stale context, ungoverned access paths and poorly evaluated retrieval pipelines do not merely degrade answer quality; they undermine trust, compliance and operational reliability," VentureBeat reported.
Meanwhile, MIT Technology Review reported that the US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to create content for public consumption. This news has raised concerns about the potential for AI-generated content to erode societal trust.
To ensure successful enterprise AI systems, Mistral AI recommends identifying an "iconic use case" as the foundation for AI transformation. This approach involves co-designing tailored AI solutions with industry leaders to address specific challenges and achieve measurable outcomes, according to MIT Technology Review.
Asana CPO Arnab Bose emphasized the importance of shared memory and context for successful AI agents within an enterprise. "When you assign a task, you're not having to go ahead and re-provide all of the context about how your business works," Bose said at a VentureBeat event in San Francisco. Asana launched Asana AI Teammates last year with the goal of creating a collaborative system where AI agents are directly integrated into teams and projects.
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