Fannie Mae’s new AI-powered crime detection unit: The Pulte/Palantir project

Less known is Palantir Technologies. It describes itself as “bringing the right data to the people who need it, allowing them to make data-driven decisions.” Palantir clients include some of the most secretive US intelligence agencies. They do a lot with data, and beyond that, I am unable to articulate without revealing my lack of understanding.

So with equal parts excitement and foreboding, this is what I see Palantir bringing to the mortgage fraud fight.

The right data

Palantir brings clients the “Right Data.” So what is that? Simply put, the “Right Data” for Palantir is everything. Everything means all the granular mortgage loan data, from a borrower’s private data to the very public property data. Then there’s macro industry data, from…