France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
France is funding AI deployments and shifting state software toward Mistral and Chapsvision, displacing Palantir in a major public-sector contract.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260616/p9#a260616p9" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Benoit Berthelot / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-16/french-security-service-to-replace-palantir-with-local-software">France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision</a></b></span> — France's domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, will replace Palantir Technologies Inc. data tools with a local alternative … </p>
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