{"id":118066,"date":"2025-09-06T06:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118066\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:53:14","slug":"coventry-city-council-contract-with-ai-firm-palantir-under-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118066\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry City Council contract with AI firm Palantir under review"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her submission Lewis, who left the Labour Party this summer, wrote: “Coventry City Council signed a \u00a3500,000 contract with Palantir, a company that has attracted significant public concern over its work in defence, surveillance and policing, including its role in Israel’s genocide in Palestine.”<\/p>\n

She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>: “The contract has drawn strong criticisms from myself as a local councillor, as well as local unions, campaigners and Zarah Sultana MP.<\/p>\n

“This is not only because of Palantir’s involvement in the defence industry but also because the council have been making cuts to vital services.”<\/p>\n

Palantir has said it was not true it was supporting AI-assisted targeting, external<\/a> in Israel. However, the company has confirmed it has a contract with the Israeli Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

Genocide scholars have declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, but the UN and several Western nations<\/a> have said they will only consider a ruling by a court as authoritative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her submission Lewis, who left the Labour Party this summer, wrote: “Coventry City Council signed a \u00a3500,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-118066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}