Louis Mosley
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Louis Mosley
@louismosley
Leading @palantirtech in UK & Europe
London, United Kingdom Katılım Şubat 2009
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Today’s @ObserverUK does something rare: it asks the people actually using Palantir’s software what they think. A Chief Constable who believes it has prevented domestic murders. NHS workers who’ve delivered 99,000 extra operations and treat patients 41 days sooner with it. A former Chief of the Defence Staff explaining how it keeps troops alive.
It asks the hard questions too - on data sovereignty, democratic accountability, and the responsibilities that come with building powerful technology.
My answers: Palantir has never worked in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. We believe in democracy, and that belief is not selective. It means supporting policies with a clear democratic mandate. The alternative - companies deciding which election results to honour - is what should frighten us.
Nowhere is that accountability more tested than on data. Privacy as a concept made sense when you could choose not to generate it. That world is gone. The data is being generated - by your phone, your car, your bank, your hospital. The real question is who controls how your data is used, under what legal conditions, and with what oversight. Governments that pretend otherwise aren’t protecting citizens. They’re just less honest about the trade-offs.
The debate about AI and data in public services is too important to be conducted without the people who actually deliver them. Today’s Observer has changed that. It’s long overdue.
Link 👇
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Usually 5 or 6 domestic murders a year.
Last 12 months? Zero.
By using Palantir, Bedfordshire Police identified 1,000+ women whose partners had a history of domestic abuse - and warned them they could be in danger.
“This feels like prevention in action at scale,” said the Chief Constable.
How we balance the benefits of very powerful technology, like Palantir, against the risks is one of the most important debates of our time. This piece by @RSylvester1 in @ObserverUK captures much of this debate’s complexity.
The Observer@ObserverUK
How tech giant Palantir was recruited by the police, NHS and military The US data analytics company is helping to fight crime, cut hospital waiting lists and bolster asymmetrical warfare. But is it a force for good, asks @RSylvester1 bit.ly/4bV4wLn
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Louis Mosley retweetledi
"It can be deployed literally everywhere — any country, any air-gapped region, completely on prem, on site, in the field." - Jensen Huang
The future of sovereign AI infrastructure is here. 🔥
Chad Wahlquist@chadwahl
Domination @nvidia ♥️ @PalantirTech ♥️ @Dell
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The UK is home to exceptional defence tech companies. With the UK as our European defence HQ, we're committed to helping them win.
I’m delighted to share how partners like @hadeaninc are delivering cutting-edge AI to the armed forces using Palantir.
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Palantir's chief technology officer @ssankar is asking: Has WWIII already begun?
He argues that the US defence sector and industrial base are beleaguered and in urgent need of a reboot to deter enemies from further attacks.
In Europe, President Trump’s threat to impose higher tariffs on European allies in a row over Greenland last month has raised concerns about whether relying on US technology could be a national security risk if sensitive data processed by Palantir software could be accessed by the US government and intelligence services.
Sankar says allied governments using Palantir software all ask that security question, conduct technical reviews, and come back with the conclusion that there are “no back doors, this is clean, we have control of this, we own our data, we’re not locked in”.
Separately, he says he understands the “emotional concerns” around using US technology. “It’s your sovereignty. Those are very reasonable [concerns] and they should be addressed.”
He adds: “I want countries to want it [Palantir software], not to feel like they’re forced into it.” He cites the French as an example. “We surged in to help them after the Bataclan massacre [in Paris in 2015]. There was huge resistance to adopting us before the massacre. After the massacre, it was like, OK, we need to do something.”
For those countries, and companies, considering strengthening ties with China as an alternative to the US, his response is blunt. “I’d say ask [US-captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás] Maduro how good of an ally China was.”
He adds: “What are China’s intents? Are they going to actually allow you to prosper? Or is this sort of conquest capitalism going to come for all your industries? If you’re Germany, do you think they’re really going to let you continue to have an auto industry? Let’s be real about this. That seems like cutting off your face to spite your nose.”
Interview in @thetimes
thetimes.com/business/compa…
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This is testament to the power of Palantir’s software - and the trust placed in us by Airbus.
We help Airbus and their hundreds of airline clients around the world to make Airbus planes safer and more efficient.
Here is to ten more years of partnership with one of Europe’s greatest companies 🤝
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“AI is an infinite army of tireless and assiduous administrative worker bees, automating away drudgery while freeing human hands and minds for more valuable and more meaningful work.”
Some thoughts from me on AI and what it might mean for governments.
Read the full piece here.
The Spectator@spectator
Forgive me. I am going to begin by quoting two prominent left-wing Londoners – and agreeing with one. ✍️ Louis Mosley spectator.com/article/ai-is-…
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Palantir reports Q4 2025 revenue growth of 70% Y/Y, rule of 40 score of 127%; issues FY 2026 revenue guidance of 61% Y/Y growth and U.S. commercial revenue guidance of 115% Y/Y growth, crushing consensus estimates.
Q4 U.S. commercial revenue grew 137% y/y and adjusted operating margin was 57%.
We also generated $2.27 billion in FY 2025 adjusted free cash flow, representing 51% margin and 82% Y/Y growth.
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There are lots of ways that good technology can help improve the NHS both for staff and patients.
I often focus on the numbers. The 80,000 additional operations. The 15 per cent reduction in delays to discharge.
But actually the individual stories are always more powerful. And this one really stood out to me:
“The cancer consultant that we were working on the Cancer Waiting List tool said to me that, since using the Federated Data Platform, she has been able to space her day out in a way that means she can spread the good news amongst the bad news that she has to give to patients. Now, that seems quite a small thing, but if you're giving bad news all the time, it really means a lot.”
Palantir@PalantirTech
“When we’re presented with the biggest challenges that the NHS faces today, having a Palantir engineer working side by side with us in partnership means that we know that we’ll come up with the solution.” Rebecca Llewellyn, Director of Data Management and Transformation, @NHSEngland. We're proud to serve the UK's most cherished institution on its path to a fully connected NHS. With 150 Trusts across onboard and 80,000 additional operations already delivered, The NHS Federated Data Platform is harnessing technology to deliver better patient care.
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Palantir Head of Europe @louismosley tells the story of Alex Karp visiting Ukraine weeks after the war started:
“They’re facing an adversary 3-4x larger in population, far larger industrial base.”
“They can’t afford to sacrifice people in the way Russia is.”
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Arguing to scrap the NHS Federated Data Platform, as @ZackPolanski is, means arguing to end a successful programme that is improving patient care and tackling a problem we all know exists - of an NHS that, in spite of its brilliant people, is hampered by antiquated technology that too often results in fragmented care.
Some facts about the NHS FDP:
→ It has already delivered 80,000 additional critical operations and procedures
→ It has reduced delays to the discharge of people ready to leave hospital by around 15 per cent - freeing up critical bed capacity
→ It has assisted in safely removing over half a million outdated or duplicate entries from waiting lists, ensuring those in greatest need for treatment are identified and prioritised.
→ It is forecast to deliver £150m of benefits a year from the end of the decade, with every pound spend on the programme delivering £5 of benefits
→ It is one of 30 out of 213 major government projects that has a delivery rating of Green.
I’d welcome the chance to meet Zack and explain to him in granular detail how the NHS is in total control of its data and how Palantir software - legally, contractually and just because it has nothing to do with our business model - could never be used to process that data in any way other than in strict accordance with the instructions of the NHS.
Ridge & Frost@RidgeandFrost
🗣️ "Zack Polanski is putting ideology over patients" Palantir's @louismosley speaks to @WilfredFrost about the criticism the company has faced after working with the NHS trib.al/mbeVpLj 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Just returned from my 17th trip to Ukraine in 3.5 years—my coldest yet at -18°C. Yet it sparked hope.
For nearly four years, Ukrainians have held Russia at bay. Their sacrifices are staggering; their bravery and ingenuity, awe-inspiring.
But AI-powered air defense could neutralize Moscow’s edge, sustaining Kyiv’s fight.
This weekend, we launched the @Brave1UA Dataroom on @palantirtechnologies software, led by Ukraine’s Defense Minister @FedorovMykhailo.
It offers a secure hub with four years of war data, enabling tech innovators to train battlefield algorithms, starting with autonomous drone detection and interception.
Long-term, it will mean Ukraine can share this vital tech with allies.
There is no finer voice on defense than @IgnatiusPost, who’s written here about how this initiative could keep Ukraine in the fight.
For those cheering Ukraine on, this tech should give you renewed hope.
Mykhailo Fedorov@FedorovMykhailo
“Ukraine will soon deploy a new generation of domestically produced air-defense interceptors, powered by artificial intelligence, that could allow the country to fight on indefinitely.” How Ukraine plans to stop Russia’s Shahed drone terror — read by @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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Proud to power Ukraine's Brave1 Dataroom — a secure platform where data from the front lines trains the next generation of battlefield AI.
Working with @FedorovMykhailo and Ukraine's defence ecosystem, we're accelerating the development of autonomous systems that will define the future of warfare.
Palantir is proud to stand with those defending freedom.
Mykhailo Fedorov@FedorovMykhailo
We are launching Brave1 Dataroom with @PalantirTech @louismosley. AI based on real war data will help intercept enemy drones and protect Ukrainian airspace. Ukraine is developing autonomous air defense solutions that are already delivering results.
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Joining #BBCLauraK
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander
Former US ambassador Lord Mandelson
Broadcaster Gloria De Piero
Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley
Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes
Sunday 9am @BBCOne
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Au cas où quelque chose se serait perdu dans la traduction, je passe au français...
Vous avez lâché l’exfiltration des données. Bien.
Reste le «kill switch» fantôme. Inexistant.
La DGSI possède et gère son instance Palantir: sol français, infrastructures françaises, personnels habilités français, code et algorithmes par officiers français.
Palantir désactive comment? Équipe forçant les gardes armés d’un site classifié? Pure fiction.
Contrôle physique, technique et données: 100 % français.
Hypothèse : angles morts pour actifs US, cachés 10 ans malgré milliers d’enquêtes, indétectés par la DGSI - dont c’est la mission. Invraisemblable.
Élevé a Paris, avec des proches sur place, j’aime profondément la France. Douloureux de voir la commentosphère sacrifier l’intérêt national à l’idéologie, au risque de vies. L’Europe a besoin d’une France forte et stable - pas diminuée par des postures vaines.
Le pragmatisme et la compétence protègent la France. L’idéologie et l’incompétence, non.
#SouverainetéNumérique #SécuritéNationale
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
Palantir replied 👇to my post on their French intelligence agency contract with, as expected, a lot of lies and gaslighting. Their main argument seems to be "there's no issue and for proof the French are so satisfied they keep renewing." This is completely false. The fact is that Palantir was always meant to be a "transitional" solution before a French alternative could be developed. That's according to the DGSI themselves as quoted in Les Échos, France's leading financial newspaper (lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hi…). Guillaume Poupard, the head of France's National Agency for Security of Information Systems, also confirmed this in an audition to France's National Assembly (assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/opendata/R…): "regarding Palantir, there is an overall will to create a trusted French alternative". Subtext: Palantir isn't trusted. The background is that Palantir was initially adopted as an emergency short-term measure in the wake of the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the deadliest in the history of France. There was, understandably, panic at the time to get fast solutions in place to prevent the next attack, and Palantir was the only option so the DGSI *reluctantly* adopted it. Since then, there have been multiple attempt to get rid of the dependency. These include: - Programme Artemis (Ministry of Defense): launched to create a sovereign French architecture for massive data processing, involving Thales, Sopra Steria, Atos and Capgemini. Problem: they're insanely slow, they're saying it'll take them 15 years to develop a solution (shs.cairn.info/revue-defense-…) - The "GICAT" project: a consortium of 22 French companies coordinated by GICAT (defense industry group). Problem: this is a very fragmented offering where they try to replicate Palantir with several companies that each offer part of the features and have little interoperability (shs.cairn.info/revue-defense-…) - OTDH Tender (2022): the most serious attempt - a formal procurement process launched by the DGSI. Started with 9 candidates, narrowed to 3 finalists: Athea (Atos-Thales alliance), ChapsVision, and Blueway. A migration was even planned before the Paris 2024 Olympics. For some obscure reason, it didn't happen but, according to ChapsVision, "we're nearly there" (franceinfo.fr/vrai-ou-fake/c…) So no, the truth is that the DGSI is very much NOT satisfied with Palantir and has been actively trying to get rid of it. So much for the satisfied customer story Palantir is trying to sell in their response... Also, on a technical level, their main argument is "but the data stays in France". That's not the main issue at all. The main threat with Palantir, and we've seen the U.S. use this repeatedly in their warfare (for instance against China or Russia), is a coercion scenario whereby, if France ever took a position seriously adverse to US interests, the US could pressure Palantir to stop providing updates/support, withdraw personnel or even operate a kill switch to shut down the software. And poof, suddenly the software that constitutes the "central architecture" of France's intelligence services stops working. That's not far fetched at all, ask Russia which saw U.S. software companies pull the plug overnight in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Also, France might control the data but they surely don't control the code, and that's pretty damn important for sovereignty. Yes, on an air-gapped system, real-time data exfiltration is implausible. But the more insidious threat isn't what the software sends out, it's what it chooses not to show. An algorithm can be designed to deprioritize certain results, miss certain connections, fail to surface certain targets. If Palantir's software is quietly blind to threats the US doesn't want France to see - say US-protected assets - how would France ever detect it? Gaps in results are invisible and completely deniable. This requires no internet, leaves no trace, and is unprovable without source code access, which France undoubtedly does not have. So all in all, this is an insane vulnerability for a country's core intelligence infrastructure and France knows it. You don't launch three separate programs to replace a software you're happy with. France isn't renewing because they're satisfied, they're renewing because they haven't managed to get rid of Palantir yet. Palantir says "pragmatism, not ideology, is what will keep France safe." I completely agree. And the pragmatic thing to do here is not to run your intelligence services on code you can't see, from a country you can't trust. That's not "technically illiterate national chauvinism," it's simply common sense.
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European security orgs need to get serious. The next few years will not be safer ones. Pandering to critics who dream up “data handovers” while knowing fuck-all about how these systems actually work isn’t leadership—it’s a dereliction of duty.
Pragmatism, not ideology, is what will keep France safe. #DigitalSovereignty #NationalSecurity
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Sovereignty isn’t some abstract notion; it’s the real ability to act and protect your people.
A France that turns down the best tools on made-up grounds isn’t more sovereign—it’s weaker. This stubborn technical illiteracy dressed up as "strategy" is why Europe keeps falling behind.
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This is an insane take.
It’s not strategically incoherent for France to buy the best tech on the market—hosted on its own infrastructure, under full French control—to keep its citizens safe. We wonder why Europe is in such a mess? This kind of technically illiterate national chauvinism is the main reason. 🧵
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
This is frankly a complete dereliction of duty. Not only have France's intelligence services been using an American company to analyze some of the country's most sensitive data for a decade, but - in the current context - they're insane enough to re-sign for another 3 years. Try to square this circle: - The Americans, in their National Security Strategy, openly say that one of their key strategic priorities is to "Cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations," i.e. foreign interference aimed at regime change - Europeans are starting to recognize the problem, with Germany's Merz now essentially saying that the Americans are an adversary (x.com/RnaudBertrand/…), that they're "pursuing their interests very, very aggressively" and that Europeans can "only respond" by also doing so. - Yet France's own intelligence services are handing some of their most sensitive data to an American company. And not in a small way: according to French media (lessentieldeleco.fr/4824-palantir-…) Palantir now constitutes the "central software architecture" of the DGSI. You couldn't make it up. Even Israel, despite being joined at the hip with Washington, won't let Palantir near its core intelligence systems - Unit 8200 and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) rejected the system precisely because of sovereignty issues (en.globes.co.il/en/article-wha…) France, meanwhile, is like "sure, help yourselves and let's renew for another 3 years - we're confident you'll only use this data to protect us, not to 'cultivate resistance' to our government." At some point it's so absurd and strategically incoherent that the Americans can save themselves the trouble of "cultivating resistance", this level of incompetence does the job all by itself.
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