Perspectives on AI in European defence — sovereignty, regulation, investment, and frontline technology.

The largest increase in European defence spending since the Cold War is underway. The money is moving. The question is whether European AI capability can absorb it fast enough.

Conferences produce panels. Summits produce decisions. Here's what makes the difference — and why the format of a room matters as much as the agenda.
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European start-ups building defence-grade AI face a regulatory environment designed for a different era. Here's what the path to procurement actually looks like — and what's blocking it.
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The world's most advanced real-world laboratory for AI in combat is on Europe's eastern border. The lessons are available. Most of Europe isn't applying them fast enough.
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The continent that wrote the AI Act now has to figure out how to fight with it. The gap between regulation and capability has never been wider — or more consequential.