New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Palantir Technologies, an artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics firm led by tech billionaire Alex Karp, has renewed a multi-year contract with France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, underscoring the company's role in Western security and intelligence operations.

Alex Karp is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies, a US-based software company that builds data-analysis platforms used by intelligence agencies, militaries, law-enforcement bodies and large corporations.

Under Karp's leadership, Palantir has become a key partner to Western governments. In Europe, France is its second-largest market after the UK, with Palantir's software used by the DGSI since 2016, includi...