Palantir and Nvidia are building ‘AI for the US’, while countries across the world are in fear of America’s ‘Kill Switch’

Palantir and Nvidia gave the US government something no rival power can easily match: frontier-grade AI that runs entirely inside sealed, air-gapped systems, with Washington owning the chips, the models and the weights end to end. Two days later, Palantir posted a nine-point manifesto that turned the engineering into ideology, warning that any institution depending on someone else’s AI is quietly handing over its future. Read the announcement through the manifesto and the message to the rest of the world sharpens into something colder. The people who just built America a self-sufficient AI machine are also telling Berlin, Delhi and Riyadh exactly what they lose by running on somebody else’s, and right now, that somebody else is the United States.