The U.S. Department of Defense has concluded that Chinese e-commerce leaders and AI developers Alibaba Group and Baidu, as well as carmaker BYD and five other companies from China, should be included in a list of organizations assisting the Chinese military. That's according to a letter to Congress sent by the Defense Department about three weeks before Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met Oct. 30 in South Korea, where the leaders agreed on a package of measures that included lowering duties and temporarily suspending some export restrictions.

Pentagon wants to blacklist Alibaba and BYD as Chinese companies - Bloomberg

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

AeroVironment, Inc.

Since the beginning of 2025, the market value of many U.S. defense companies has increased by at least 25%

Defense stocks rose. Pentagon calls for doubling missile production - WSJ

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Palantir's capitalization exceeded $400 billion after the publication of a successful quarterly report. The American company specializing in intelligence gathering and processing showed a 48% growth in revenue in the second quarter (ended June 30) to more than $1 billion. In a <a href="https://www.palantir.com/q2-2025-letter/en/">statement</a> to shareholders, founder Alexander Karp said that the company plans to become "the dominant software developer of the future". For Onivest, journalist Roman Mighty looked into why Palantir is attracting investor attention and why human rights and civil rights activists don't like a future that could be dominated by such a company.

The all-seeing eye of the military: How Palantir became an AI supplier to corporations and the Pentagon


Investbank reiterated a buy recommendation on Palantir shares and expects strong results in the August 4 report