ontology

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UBS says customer feedback on Palantir’s data ontology layer shows “no evidence of churn or heightened competition in Palantir’s numbers or in our customer checks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The analyst believes Palantir’s ontology and forward deployed engineers, which Morgan Stanley covered favorably last month, “will maintain a competitive differentiated moat in this agentic AI super cycle.”

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

The deeper risk is that we may be optimizing the wrong thing by improving algorithms while leaving the underlying computational ontology unchanged.

From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025

Many Nigerians believe in the supernatural, and this often stems from the animistic ontology that undergirds self and being in many Nigerian communities.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

These were the great, complex questions of ontology that tormented him.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller