On November 3, 2026, at the Bloomberg Tech conference in London, Louis Mosley, responsible for the operations of the American company Palantir in the UK and Europe, spoke about the political pressure on the company. According to him, in the US it is criticized for supporting Ukraine, and in Europe for cooperating with Israel. Bloomberg reported this.
Palantir, among whose founders are Alex Karp and Peter Thiel, develops programs for integrating and analyzing large amounts of information: from satellite images to intelligence data and medical records. Mosley rejected the claim that the company has become particularly unpopular in Europe. According to him, its work is aimed at strengthening the security of Western states and is based on the principles of democracy and the rule of law.
Author — Pavel Shveiko, NANews.
However, disagreements between European governments and the Donald Trump administration have intensified the desire of states to independently control technologies on which the army, intelligence, and government institutions depend.
Ukraine: from recovery to combat artificial intelligence
In 2022, Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp visited Kyiv and met with Volodymyr Zelensky. On May 25, 2023, the company signed a memorandum of cooperation with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation in defense and recovery: assessing damage, planning reconstruction, and working with data. Its technologies are also used to support law enforcement and investigations of possible war crimes.
In March 2024, Ukraine agreed with Palantir on the use of artificial intelligence in humanitarian demining. At that time, 156,000 square kilometers were considered potentially contaminated with explosive objects — this is the 2024 estimate, not the current area.
On January 21, 2026, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced the launch of Brave1 Dataroom based on Palantir’s software. Developers are training algorithms to recognize Russian drones from regular and thermal images so that interceptor drones can find targets faster.
At a meeting with Karp on May 12, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov reported: more than a hundred companies are working on more than 80 models. He also mentioned the analysis of air attacks, intelligence data, and planning long-range strikes.
Israel: agreement with the Ministry of Defense and questions about AI application
In January 2024, after a board meeting of Palantir in Tel Aviv and negotiations between its leaders and Israeli defense officials, the parties concluded a strategic agreement on technologies for military tasks.
The company confirmed cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Defense in reports to the American regulator SEC.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense purchases technologies for the IDF — the Israel Defense Forces. But the agreement does not disclose which specific Palantir programs are used and in which operations.
Amid the war in Gaza, questions arose about the possible use of the company’s products in selecting military targets. Palantir denies involvement in the development of Israeli systems Gospel and Lavender, mentioned in investigations of artificial intelligence applications. Human rights organizations demand an investigation into the company’s role in military operations.
However, the existence of an agreement with the Ministry of Defense does not prove Palantir’s involvement in the development of these systems or violations of international law.
France seeks a replacement, Britain debates the contract
On June 16, 2026, France chose local ChapsVision to replace Palantir in the internal intelligence DGSI — the service responsible for counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
But the transition is not complete. The American system has been used there since 2016, and the current contract was extended in December 2025 until 2028. The replacement should be the French platform Argonos. Data transfer and staff training will take several years.
In the UK, there is a debate about Palantir’s contract with the NHS for 330 million pounds — about 1.4 billion shekels.
The company supplies the Federated Data Platform for analyzing hospital data. On November 2, The Guardian reported that 29 hospital organizations, listed as benefiting from the platform, stated: the system is not launched with them or its applications are not used.
The NHS defends the project and previously reported 137 organizations where the platform is operational. In 2027, the contract can be terminated early, but no such decision has been made yet.
NATO uses Maven, Germany and France abstain
In 2025, NATO acquired the Maven Smart System — Palantir’s platform for analyzing information from satellites, radars, and other sensors. On June 22, 2026, it reached full technical readiness.
However, Germany and France have not implemented Maven for their own armed forces, fearing dependence on an American supplier and possible access by outsiders to classified data.
After the October restrictions on Starlink and Starshield satellite services, which complicated the work of Ukrainian drones, these concerns intensified. Previously, NANews detailed the consequences of satellite communication restrictions for Ukraine and Israel.
On October 22, Mosley assured Reuters that neither Palantir nor the US government can remotely disable the NATO-acquired Maven system. This is the company’s statement, not the result of an independent technical review.
Political issues did not stop revenue growth
On November 2, Palantir published its financial results for the third quarter of 2026. Revenue reached 2.313 billion dollars — about 7.3 billion shekels, increasing by 96% year-on-year.
For the first time, American commercial customers brought the company more revenue than government ones: 984 million versus 953 million dollars. The annual revenue forecast has been raised to approximately 8.53 billion dollars.
Therefore, there is no basis to talk about a financial crisis at Palantir. Available reports also do not name specific American politicians or contracts canceled due to criticism of supporting Ukraine.
For Israel, the situation has practical significance. Strategic cooperation with the American company is maintained, but its work with the Israeli defense department has become a subject of European political disputes. At the same time, the decisions of France, Germany, and British institutions show that states assess not only the political reputation of the supplier but also the ability to independently manage classified data.
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