NATO commander Adm. Pierre Vandier said Europe currently has “no real competitor for Palantir,” defending the alliance’s decision to rapidly adopt the U.S. company’s AI battlefield system while warning Europe must move faster to build its own alternatives. “We’ll take something off the shelf that the United States used,” Vandier said, arguing that Europe needs to prove it can deliver equivalent technology “in a matter of months, years, and not a decade.” Source: POLITICO