Palantir is doing just that. The company, named for the "seeing stones" of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, is an intelligence company that uses AI to help users "see" through the noise. Its software ...

Earlier this month, Palantir and Anduril, which are both named after magical items in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, announced a partnership earlier this month. They intend to ...

Yet Palantir also just announced its own partnership with Anduril to advance AI for defense use. It is probably no coincidence both of the AI companies derived names from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord ...

Stories that Palantir Technologies (PLTR ... the company's name comes from the “seeing stones” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings." These were indestructible balls of crystal used ...

Anduril, along with other Tolkien-named companies like Palantir and Sauron, represent a new kind of Silicon Valley. One that’s focused on America and willing to manufacture a massive amount of ...

Like the Valar in the J.R.R. Tolkien books he loves so much—he ... The highly secretive Palantir, of which Thiel is chairman and a cofounder, has become a go-to source of AI for government ...

R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" was his favorite read as a teen. He tends to choose "Lord of the Rings" inspired names for his ventures. For instance, Palantir refers to the "seeing stones ...