CSET's Steph Batalis shared her expert analysis in an op-ed published by DefenseOne. In her piece, she highlights how the United States’ faltering response to the ongoing measles outbreak reveals serious vulnerabilities in the nation’s public health and biodefense infrastructure. Read More

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insights in an article published by WIRED. The article explores the development of a new large language model, Collective-1, built using a distributed training approach that leverages globally dispersed GPUs and incorporates both public and private data sources. Read More

A CSET report and data snapshot was highlighted in an article published by Rest of World. The article explores China’s growing efforts to build a self-sufficient semiconductor industry amid tightening U.S. export restrictions. Read More

Dewey Murdick and Miriam Vogel shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by Fortune. In their piece, they highlight the urgent need for the United States to strengthen its AI literacy and incident reporting systems to maintain global leadership amid rapidly advancing international competition, especially from China’s booming AI sector. Read More

Jack Corrigan and Vikram Venkatram shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by The National Interest. In their piece, they examine the political and legal controversy surrounding the Biden administration’s draft guidance on “march-in rights” under the Bayh-Dole Act, which could allow federal agencies to lower drug prices by reclaiming patents on taxpayer-funded inventions when they are not reasonably accessible to the public. Read More

John Bansemer and Kyle Miller shared their expert analysis in a report published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. In their piece, they highlight the release of DeepSeek’s open-weight AI model “R1” in January 2025 and its major impact on global AI competition, especially between China and the United States. Read More

Opposing narratives around AI for biotechnology raise the question: how are biotech researchers actually using AI in published research? CSET’s Steph Batalis, Catherine Aiken, and James Dunham explored this question by leveraging CSET’s merged academic corpus, enriched publication metadata, and research clusters. Read More

A CSET report was highlighted in an article published by MIT Technology Review. The article discusses the U.S. military’s growing use of generative AI—such as chatbot-style tools modeled after ChatGPT—for intelligence analysis and decision support during deployments. Read More

Kathleen Curlee and Andrew Hanna shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by TIME. In their piece, they analyze the growing national security risks posed by Russia and China’s advancements in space weaponry—particularly anti-satellite (ASAT) systems that could disrupt GPS, weather forecasting, and global communications. To address these national security risks, they call for the creation of a U.S.-led military coalition—an Artemis Alliance—to defend the peaceful use of space. Read More

Sam Bresnick and Jack Corrigan shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by The National Interest. In their piece, they discussed the need for the United States to rebalance its economy by better integrating software and hardware to compete with China and boost growth. Read More