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SINCE the arrival of the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) tool DeepSeek in January, this month has seen a flurry of conferences on AI.

At the AI Action Summit in Paris on Feb 11 – attended by global leaders like European Union (EU) President Ursula von der Leyden, French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – US vice-president JD Vance made four major US policy points on AI.