China is moving faster on next-gen tech. The U.S. is trying to keep up
Fast Company Tech Chris Stokel-Walker April 1, 2026

The U.S. and China are racing to define the future of technology, with very different ideas about how fast it should arrive and how tightly it should be controlled. The urgency is no longer abstract. In recent weeks, China approved the world’s first commercial brain-computer interface medical dev
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