COVER STORY This issue: Driving Force—With his move to Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton aims to cement his status as Formula One’s greatest athlete ever.  On Valentine’s Day, Lewis Hamilton enters a sprawling studio space in northwest London and intently stares at the magnificent creature standing off in the distance. “Sh-t,” says Hamilton to no one in particular. “I’m nervous.” Soon enough, however, the seven-time Formula One world champion overcomes his anxiety and is standing face-to-face with a shiny black stallion named Aroma…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

Researchers are racing to understand why. Dr. Frank Frizelle has operated on countless patients in his career as a colorectal surgeon. But there’s one that stayed with him. In 2014, he was treating a woman in her late 20s suffering from bowel cancer—already a rare situation, given her age. But it became even more unusual when her best friend visited for in the hospital and told Frizelle that she had many of the same symptoms as his patient…

The release of DeepSeek R1 stunned Wall Street and Silicon Valley in January, spooking investors and impressing tech leaders. But amid all the talk, many over-looked a critical detail about the way the new Chinese artificial intelligence model functions—a nuance that has researchers worried about humanity’s ability to control sophisticated new AI systems. It’s all down to an innovation in how DeepSeek R1 was trained—one that led to surprising…