The latest transatlantic technology brouhaha unfolded on Instagram. During a week in June when the leaders of the Group of Seven descended on France and Paris held its flagship technology conference, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu took to the platform better known for aspirational travel content to announce his government was seeking a divorce with Palantir.

• The move followed Trump’s decision, four days earlier, to restrict foreign access to leading artificial intelligence models from Anthropic PBC. “France must have its own tools,” Lecornu said. After years of Europe advocating for more digital sovereignty, there’s a newfound sense of urgency to repatriate key services long outsourced to US companies.
• Palantir, the controversial American data mining firm co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel in 2003, is used to being a political punching bag. Still, it’s become a part of the West’s security apparatus, signing deals and memorandums with French spies, London police and the Polish armed forces. And the company was shocked by how the breakup unfolded, with one Palantir executive accusing Lecornu of treating important security decisions like a “Hollywood spat.”
• Lecornu named an obscure local challenger called ChapsVision as Palantir’s replacement for its domestic intelligence agency. But the change won’t happen overnight; Palantir signed a three-year extension in December.
• Even so, the message was clear: Europe will back up its digital sovereignty concerns with actions. And, in a world increasingly skeptical of relying on American tech, Palantir is perhaps the most unabashedly Trump-aligned tech business. 

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