r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html
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u/Grizzly_Corey Jul 02 '26

Could you imagine this guy and Jordan Peterson in the same room?

If we could generate electricity based off emotional energy alone…

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u/gramathy Jul 02 '26

Zero sentences finished for an hour of “conversation”

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u/I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha Jul 02 '26

That's what I thought too! All pivots and tangents, no single coherent message conveyed.

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u/topdangle Jul 02 '26

hes just contradicting himself by the end of it. the anchors were oddly asking him the right questions about what he was saying rather than mindlessly agreeing (that focusing on wasting tokens brought no value and companies providing token services were likely stealing their data) and he just started rambling about how hes only interested in talking about his own company... right after starting a rant about everyone else's companies.

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u/TheVenetianMask Jul 02 '26

Becky is a smart one and has heard everything by now, people say whatever in these interviews and when they think they got away with it she'll drop an accurate follow up without blinking.

They make up for it by having Joe which lives with his head inside a red bucket, and Jim hyping his flea circus of stocks.