Palantir CEO Alex Karp addressed employee concerns regarding the company's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a prerecorded video, according to Wired. The video, shared with employees on Friday, was a response to internal discussions and requests for clarification about Palantir's involvement with ICE. Simultaneously, the tech world saw advancements in AI, with OpenAI upgrading its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell, as reported by VentureBeat. However, a campaign urging users to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions, citing the use of ChatGPT-4 by ICE, gained traction, as detailed by MIT Technology Review.
The video conversation between Karp and Palantir's global director of privacy and civil liberties engineering, Courtney Bowman, aimed to address employee questions about the company's role in the current landscape, as stated in an email viewed by Wired. The "QuitGPT" campaign, highlighted by MIT Technology Review, specifically pointed to a contribution by OpenAI president Greg Brockman to President Donald Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc., and the use of a ChatGPT-4 powered resume screening tool by ICE. The federal agency's actions, including a fatal shooting in January, have made it a political flashpoint.
OpenAI's updates to its Responses API, as reported by VentureBeat, signal a shift away from limited AI agents. The new features, including Server-side Compaction and Hosted Shell, allow developers to access multiple agentic tools with a single call. However, the deployment of agentic AI in Global Business Services (GBS) has been slower than anticipated, according to VentureBeat, with rhetoric outpacing actual implementation.
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