France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival
France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of a wider push to put sovereign technology at the centre of the French state.
The timing is the part worth pausing on. Palantir announced the renewal of its three-year DGSI contract in December 2025, extending a relationship that had run for the better part of a decade.
Six months later, the agency that signed that renewal is preparing to walk away from it. The French government did not explain how the two decisions sit together, and it is an awkward sequence to read in order.
The replacement is ChapsVision’s ArgonOS, an AI-powered data-processing platform built by the firm controlled by the entrepreneur Olivier Dellenbach. ChapsVision had positioned itself for exactly this moment,...
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