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By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (Reuters) - China has overtaken the U.S. to win the top spot on a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, but the results may say more about Beijing's desire to show self-sufficiency in computing systems than its standing in the global AI race,

The alleged dangers of AI have been shoved down people’s throats for years, led by doomerism about it eliminating human jobs or wiping out mankind itself. Yet, there are far fewer discussions about how scientists are on the cusp of a breakthrough more powerful and much more worrying: Quantum computing.

Researchers and developers worldwide can now access a new photonic quantum computer that recently began formal operation in China and was connected to China Telecom Quantum Group's Tianyan cloud platform.

China's independently developed "Origin Wukong" series of superconducting quantum computers have completed more than 1 million global quantum computing tasks, according to a joint statement on Monday made by the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Computing Chips and the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center in Hefei,

The country is pushing for self-reliance in important industries amid competition with the US over advanced technology fabrication China has achieved a breakthrough in production of an ultra-pure form of silicon,

According to a simplified explanation by China Science Communication, a national science literacy platform of the China Association for Science and Technology, classical computers process one possibility at a time, while quantum computers can explore many possibilities simultaneously, enabling them to solve certain problems much faster.

China in a latest computing push has dethroned the US from the list of the world's fastest supercomputers, dominating its position in the competitive tech landscape.

The point at which quantum computers outperform classical ones will arrive. The question is who controls the infrastructure when it does.