Palantir lobbied UK health minister to consider extending AI into GP records, WhatsApps reveal
Messages obtained under FOI show US firm urged Zubir Ahmed to consider bringing GP data into NHS data platform despite earlier exclusion
Palantir, the US data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, lobbied a UK health minister via WhatsApp to consider extending its AI technology into GP records, despite a government pledge that GP data would not be included in its existing £330m contract with NHS England.