Brendan Ruberry
banner
brendanruberry.bsky.social
Brendan Ruberry
@brendanruberry.bsky.social
Newsroom Fellow @semafor.

Email: bruberry (at) semafor (dot) com
Bores told Semafor that he’s being targeted not only because he favors AI guardrails, but because he’s spent years in tech — nearly five of those at Palantir.

“They don’t want someone who knows their industry regulating their industry, and I think that's telling on themselves.”
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Think Big PAC — which produced the ad — is affiliated with Leading the Future, a $100 million pro-AI super PAC funded by Marc Andreessen, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, among others.
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The ad — which ran over the weekend — claims without evidence that Bores worked on and profited from ICE-related projects at Palantir.

But Bores told Semafor that he refused to work on the ICE contract at Palantir, and departed the company over its relationship with the agency.
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM