Spain quietly bans controversial US tech firm Palantir from public contracts over national security concerns

This is less about Palantir specifically and more about a pattern spreading across Europe, where governments are treating AI and data analytics vendors as a national security surface rather than just software procurement. Existing contracts stay in place, which shows this is a hedge against future leverage rather than a clean break. Watch whether France, Germany and others formalize similar quiet blacklists, because that would mark a real fragmentation of the AI vendor market along geopolitical lines.