In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of new drugs, including those tackling cancer. Western rivals are licensing its firms’ wares.

Seven Chinese universities plan to launch an "embodied intelligence" major as Beijing races to build a pipeline of robotics and AI talent.

Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.

Canadian tech startup Cohere's CEO Aidan Gomez said on Thursday the U.S. and Canada hold an "incredible position" to partner with economies adopting AI around the world, putting the countries in the lead against China in the global AI race.

This latest breakthrough in nuclear power technology has implications for U.S. energy policy and global decarbonization efforts.

For the first time, Volkswagen can now fully develop new vehicles outside of Germany. Volkswagen claims it can cut

China has financed tens of billions of pounds' worth of investment in UK businesses and projects this century, some of which gave it access to military-grade technology, BBC Panorama has learned.

A partially successful test of China’s Zhuque-3 rocket shows that other countries are rapidly catching up with the U.S in the race for reusable rocketry