Europe accelerates Artificial Intelligence in defence

European militaries are moving from limited Artificial Intelligence support tools to deeper integration in targeting, decision support and weapons systems. France, Germany and the United Kingdom are leading major programmes, while Ukraine is shaping how the technology is tested and deployed.

New LLM architectures target long-context efficiency

Recent open-weight language models are adding targeted architectural changes to cut the cost of long-context inference. Key ideas include cross-layer KV sharing, per-layer embeddings, compressed attention, and wider residual pathways.