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China’s tech leap challenges US dominance through innovation. But unregulated competition increases the risk of catastropheEight years ago, Vladimir Putin proclaimed that mastering artificial intelligence (AI) would make a nation the “ruler of the world”. Western tech sanctions after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should have dashed his ambitions to lead in AI by 2030. But that might be too hasty a judgment. Last week, the Chinese lab DeepSeek unveiled R1, an AI that analys

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means a major question remains: How many robots—and how complex a mission—can a single human manage before becoming overwhelmed? In a study funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), expe

After Donald Trump’s reckless bonfire of safeguards, our best plan is to become tech champions ourselvesIt was only 11 years ago that Prof Stephen Hawking declared that explosive and untrammelled growth in artificial intelligence could menace the future of humanity.Two years ago, more than a thousand leaders in artificial intelligence, fearing “loss of control” given its exponential growth to outcomes unknown, called for an immediate six-month pause in AI research pending the c