Germany fears France's battlefield AI system Arcadia would just replace American dependency with French dependency.

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Germany fears France's battlefield AI system Arcadia would just replace American dependency with French dependency. Internal German notes say: Engagement with Arcadia must not undermine national efforts to build a sovereign data-integration platform. Both countries want an alternative to Palantir's Maven, which NATO bought in 2025, but can't agree who leads. Arcadia runs entirely on French defense tech — Mistral AI, Safran, Thales, Airbus. The EU Commission rejected French requests for