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Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked

2026-05-22 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked Palantir's £50M AI contract with the Met Police, and now Palantir is throwing a tantrum about 'politics above public safety.' Because nothing says 'public safety' like handing your city's intelligence analysis to a controversial US surveillance tech company. The political battle inside Labour over the deal just proves that even politicians can't agree on how much AI policing is too much AI policing.

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