France cuts Palantir from its domestic spy agency, deploys Mistral to 1 million civil servants in €655M AI push
Lecornu reversed a December contract renewal to replace Palantir — DGSI's data backbone since the 2015 Paris attacks — with French firm ChapsVision, while a €655M package deploys a Mistral-built chatbot to 1 million civil servants. The stated trigger was last week's US order barring foreign nationals from Anthropic's top models — and with Germany's army already off Palantir and the UK reviewing its NHS contract, Europe's intelligence and public-sector stack is actively separating from US providers.
Source: euronews.com ↗
We cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu
Why this matters
- → France severs decade-long US intelligence dependency amid Trump-era tech restrictions.
- → European governments systematically replacing American vendors across defense and public services.
- → Strategic AI sovereignty becoming concrete policy, not rhetoric, across NATO allies.
Europe decouples from US AI