Palantir

France
Finance ministry's Tracfin urges banks to file fewer SARs

Faced with an influx of suspicious activity reports and lacking a big data tool to process them, the French finance ministry's anti-money laundering unit in late 2025 asked the banking sector to restrict the number of SARs it files.

Europe
Palantir, Chapsvision, Octostar: the battle for European intelligence platforms is go

Faced with the Russian threat, several European countries want to acquire intelligence data processing platforms - which they are still lacking - in the very near future. Competition is intensifying between US, French and Italian players.

China
NATO and Peter Thiel's kamikaze drone start-up closely watched by China

Beijing has been taking an increasing number of satellite images of sites being used to test kamikaze drones made by NATO-backed start-up Stark Defence.

The Agencies' Gazette
DNRED's new deputy director, ex-DNI at Columbia, strategic funds in Australia, Sciences Po Paris boss heads east

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceNew deputy director appointed at DNRED

United StatesFormer DNI Avril Haines returns to Columbia

United Kingdom/AustraliaCould Canberra follow example of UK's sovereign wealth fund?

FranceHead of Sciences Po Paris expected in China and Japan in October

United Kingdom
Palantir woos AUKUS in London as pact expands focus on tech

The second pillar of the AUKUS defence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, will focus on developing new defence and intelligence capabilities using artificial intelligence. The US big data intelligence group Palantir is stepping up its presence in the UK to ensure it remains a key player in the alliance's future.

Ukraine, United States
From Donetsk to California, Vector is secretly reshaping US drone warfare

Founded by US veterans, American company Vector explores the Ukrainian front to draw on emerging innovations and tactics. Halfway between a start-up, a private military company and a think tank, it brings technology and doctrines back stateside to help shape the US military of tomorrow.

France
Arlequin AI dreams of becoming leading player in French artificial intelligence

Fresh from raising €4.4m and recruiting to its team the former national coordinator for AI in France, Arlequin AI has been busy in London, quietly showcasing its expertise.

France
France honours boss of DGSI's big data provider

The French entrepreneur Olivier Dellenbach has been included on the Légion d'Honneur list for 14 July, on the nomination of France's Minister for the Economy Éric Lombard.

United States
Trump's budget cuts hit geospatial intelligence and analytics contracts

Geospatial intelligence companies, already facing a decline in direct image purchases by US agencies, were hoping to make up for lost business with contracts to analyse this imagery. But initial allocations point to a commercial bloodbath.

Latvia
Information warfare: Ukrainian and US firms woo NATO in Latvia

Firms whose core business is countering information manipulation, particularly from Russia, pushed hard to win over the transatlantic alliance at the Riga Stratcom Dialogue conference in Latvia on 10 and 11 June.