French spies drop AI giant Palantir over US overreliance fears
France’s government took a new step Tuesday in search of “strategic autonomy” for its intelligence services, announcing that it would ditch American AI giant Palantir’s data sifting systems in favour of a domestic provider.
The move comes as European governments are increasingly uneasy about relying on US-controlled technologies, with Washington squeezing access last week to the latest model from AI giant Anthropic.
“We cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere,” Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said as he announced the break by its DGSI agency with Palantir.
