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Palantir is a software company with ties to the United States defence industry and intelligence agencies and it has faced competition from the British start-up Quantexa
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1 An American technology company is set to win a £480 million contract to manage the data of millions of NHS patients. Palantir Technologies is on track to be awarded a five-year contract to run a data platform that promises to improve medical records by allowing information on patients to be shared between different parts of the health service.
2 Black Friday offers should be “taken with a pinch of salt” because only one in fifty deals is a genuine bargain, according Which?, to the consumer group. Black Friday is an American invention designed to lure shoppers after the Thanksgiving holiday.
3 The future of OpenAI, the ChatGPT creator, was in the balance last night as hundreds of staff threatened to leave unless the