Taiwan is investing in offering an alternative drone supply chain for the United States and other countries. Its efforts are paying off, writes Yu-Tzu Chiu for @spectrum.ieee.org, as the country's exports boom and it learns from intensive clients, such as Ukraine: spectrum.ieee.org/taiwan-drone...

Are robotics engineers listening to the people who will actually use humanoid robots at home? The ISO's latest draft standards may neglect real-world user input on how messy domestic life and human behavior are. Here's my interview with Jae-Seong Lee for IEEE Spectrum readers:

AI chatbots aren't therapists, but since people insist on using them for that anyway, Stephen Cousins has this story for @spectrum.ieee.org on the sort of safeguards mental health experts think we need: spectrum.ieee.org/mental-healt...

America is wrestling with how much Chinese tech to allow into sensitive supply chains. Ground robots? Drones? Uncle Sam says no. What about their components? That's where things get tricky, I write in my latest story for @spectrum.ieee.org.

Engineering isn't science, but Guru Madhavan delved into their conjoined history, and tells @spectrum.ieee.org readers that Francis Bacon, who sketched out today's scientific method, put a premium on engineering as a way of knowing. Maybe we should, too:

I've declined facial recognition recently out of curiosity and because of what I learnt reporting a data column for @spectrum.ieee.org. In higher-stakes settings, we might all re-consider the right role for this tech. Here's the column: spectrum.ieee.org/facial-recog...

A Los Angeles jury just found Meta and Alphabet responsible for knowingly harming a young person with addictive social media design. Psychotherapist Daniel Katz writes for @spectrum.ieee.org about what future social media platforms can do to be healthier: spectrum.ieee.org/social-media...

Got your data on a U.S.-owned server? European countries worry about the geopolitical risks. Rahul Rao reports for @spectrum.ieee.org on the challenges European clouds face as they square off against Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. spectrum.ieee.org/europe-cloud...

Do inventive engineers need to be lone geniuses or orchestra conductors? Guru Madhavan reflects on Robert Goddard and what Madhavan calls "The Alpha Trap" in this piece for @spectrum.ieee.org: spectrum.ieee.org/robert-godda...

Anthropic and the US Dept. of War disagree on military AI policy. Should either of them really get to decide? @danielcastro.bsky.social writes that it's time elected reps weighed in, in this cross-post from @techpolicypress.bsky.social for @spectrum.ieee.org: spectrum.ieee.org/military-ai-...

Spain wants to ban social media for under-16s. You may be able to tell from my profile that I'm older, but how can online platforms make the same call without violating data protection laws? Waydell D. Carvalho has a guest post for @spectrum.ieee.org on the issue: spectrum.ieee.org/age-verifica...

Are China and the U.S. really in an AI race? Vanessa Bates Ramirez reports for @spectrum.ieee.org on the argument that the superpowers actually have different goals for artificial intelligence. Read on: spectrum.ieee.org/us-china-ai