The palantíri are just some of the many mystical objects described in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, but their origins can be tracked across the books to determine their true powers and ...
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 ...
In fact, we named our company "Palantir" after the cautionary tale in "The Lord of the Rings" about the power of "seeing stones" that later fall into the wrong hands. Subsequent revelations of ...