Palantir Sues Ex-Engineers Over Percepta Theft

Palantir Technologies sued two former senior engineers, Radha Jain and Joanna Cohen, in federal court alleging they stole confidential documents and violated non‑compete and confidentiality agreements to build Percepta, a “copycat” AI integration company backed by General Catalyst. The complaint says the defendants had access to Palantir’s “crown jewels,” including source code, internal demo workspaces, deployed customer workflows and proprietary engagement strategies; it alleges one employee Slack‑ed herself confidential files and later accessed them on a personal phone. Percepta, which emerged from stealth this month and has hired many former Palantir staffers including a co‑founder, is not named as a defendant; General Catalyst and Percepta have not immediately commented. Palantir is seeking injunctions, return of documents and enforcement of post‑employment restrictions. The company frames the suit as part of a broader wave of trade‑secret litigation in the fast‑evolving AI sector, a dispute that could carry legal and market implications given Palantir’s prominence and recent AI‑driven investor narratives.