The U.K.’s top spy says the window to stay ahead of China and Russia is narrowing and cybersecurity needs to become ‘10 times more urgent’

Russia and China are amping up their espionage on Western nations, and there is a “narrowing window for the U.K. and allies to stay ahead,” according to Britain’s spy chief.

In a rare speech Wednesday at Bletchley Park, an estate in Buckinghamshire, England, that was the center of Allied code-breaking efforts during World War II, Anne Keast-Butler, the director of GCHQ, the U.K.’s intelligence and cybersecurity agency, warned of a renewed threat to the West from newly emboldened adversaries.

Part of this threat has to do with AI and its transformation on warfare.

“Warfare is being reconfigured; increasingly data-driven, AI-enabled, and automated in conflicts from Ukraine to Iran,” she said, adding “China is now a science and tech superpower with sophisticated capabilities across their intelligence, cyber, and military agencies.”

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