{"id":741253,"date":"2026-06-17T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:34:08","slug":"france-to-ditch-palantirs-ai-data-tools-in-favour-of-domestic-provider-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741253\/","title":{"rendered":"France to ditch Palantir\u2019s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider | France"},"content":{"rendered":"

France\u2019s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech company Palantir<\/a> in favour of a domestic provider in an effort to avoid \u201cstrategic dependency\u201d, the prime minister, S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, has said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must use our own AI models; we cannot accept new strategic dependencies in \u200cthe digital sphere,\u201d Lecornu posted on social media. \u201cWe cannot rely on tools developed by foreign powers. France<\/a> must have its own tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is increasing concern among European governments at their reliance on US-controlled technologies. Washington decided last week to restrict foreign nationals\u2019 access<\/a> to Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model.<\/p>\n

Lecornu\u2019s office said the French DGSI intelligence agency would replace Palantir\u2019s tools with those from the French firm ChapsVision, although since the US company\u2019s long-term contract was renewed in 2025, the process is likely to take several years.<\/p>\n

France must \u201cbuild real autonomy\u201d and \u201cnot depend on the goodwill of certain partners, who are capable of turning off the access tap\u201d for artificial intelligence, the prime minister said.<\/p>\n

ChapsVision, which was founded in 2019 and made \u20ac200m (\u00a3173m) in revenue in 2025 against Palantir\u2019s $4.5bn (\u00a33.3bn), said it would become the \u201ctechnological foundation\u201d for \u201cmany public agencies for their critical data processing needs\u201d.<\/p>\n

ChapsVision\u2019s technology, which collects, prepares and analyses data, has reportedly also been selected by Germany\u2019s BfV internal security service. Palantir said it would \u201ccontinue to support the French government wherever its solutions are needed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Co-founded by the rightwing billionaire Peter Thiel, an ally of Donald Trump, Palantir has worked with the US government to supply software to ICE, which is carrying out an immigration crackdown, and to identify targets in the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n

Campaign groups have long warned that the US company\u2019s products pose risks relating to surveillance, infringements on individual freedoms and data protection. Palantir insists it simply provides powerful data-processing services.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s military has said<\/a> it will no longer use the company\u2019s products, while Britain is reviewing the National Health Service\u2019s \u00a3330m data contract with Palantir after political and parliamentary pressure.<\/p>\n

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has also blocked a proposed \u00a350m Palantir \u200bcontract with the capital\u2019s \u200bMetropolitan police on value-for-money and procurement grounds. \u200bPalantir has threatened legal proceedings<\/a> in response.<\/p>\n

Lecornu said on Tuesday that France planned to invest \u20ac655m \u200bin artificial intelligence and set up \u200ba shared chatbot for \u200ball state services. It will also create a public health chatbot for the state-owned health insurance agency Ameli.<\/p>\n

The money would fund \u201cinfrastructure, computing capacity, research, companies and industrial sectors\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

France had begun rolling out a government AI tool offering a chatbot to 1 million of its 2.6 million civil servants. Built on models from the French startup Mistral AI, the system is intended to help in instances such as speeding up legal cases or helping researchers secure grants, with ministers eager to crack down on the security risk posed by commercial AI tools.<\/p>\n

Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France\u2019s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech company Palantir in favour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-741253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}