The Loop · Issue N°033

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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The means of production — Palantir posted $1.94 billion in one quarter, then used the shareholder letter to accuse OpenAI and Anthropic of Marxism
Palantir Q2 revenue up 93 per cent to $1.94 billion, net income $1.07 billion. Alex Karp used the shareholder letter to accuse OpenAI and Anthropic of Marxism.
Aug 4, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Aug 4, 2026
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The Palantir playbook — three days apart, AWS and Microsoft stood up billion-dollar forward-deployed-engineering units, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in the trade Palantir has been running since 2003
On June 30 AWS launched a $1B Forward Deployed Engineering unit. Seventy-two hours later Microsoft unveiled Frontier Company — $2.5B, 6,000 engineers. Four of the biggest names in AI have now stood up the same business in nine weeks, close to $9B between them.
Jul 11, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 11, 2026
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The Deployment Company — OpenAI takes $4 billion from 19 partners, including the consultancies it's about to compete with
On May 11 OpenAI announced a $4 billion subsidiary to do the enterprise integration work its customers had been hiring Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys to do. McKinsey, Bain, and Capgemini all wrote cheques. Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys closed down 3–5%.
May 12, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
May 12, 2026