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1 big thing: AI could soon improve on its own

Axios
| January 27, 2026

A CSET workshop report was highlighted in an segment published by Axios in its Axios+ newsletter. The segment explores the growing push toward automating AI research and development, examining how far AI systems might go in designing, improving, and training other AI models and what that could mean for innovation, safety, and governance.

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CSET's Ngor Luong spoke the Federal News Network's "Federal Drive with Tom Temin" to discuss defense companies' investment in AI.

A new CSET report "Headline or Trend Line? Evaluating Chinese-Russian Collaboration in AI" uses data-backed analysis to address the Sino-Russian partnership and its effect on U.S. strategic interests.

House Hearing Airs Cases For and Against Semiconductor Funding Surge

American Institute of Physics
| August 10, 2021

CSET's Will Hunt advocates for the CHIPS Act as part of his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee to strengthen the U.S.' semiconductor industry.

Pull US AI Research Out of China

Defense One
| August 10, 2021

CSET research shows that 10 percent of the AI labs for Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft are based in China.

According to a CSET study Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, Facebook and Apple are the six tech companies that spend the most on AI R&D.

A CSET study on China's use of guidance funds shows that Chinese governments at all levels have established 1,741 industrial guidance funds—in effect, state-sponsored private equity—with plans to deploy $1.6 trillion.

CSET's Tim Hwang was invited to join the Federal Drive podcast to discuss tech companies' investments in AI and its misalignment with national priorities.

CSET experts Zachary Arnold and Emily Weinstein testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to discuss Chinese capital markets and offer recommendations to protect U.S. investment.

“Whatever we can do in our technology strategy to maintain that leverage now will have huge geopolitical and strategic relevance in the years ahead,” warns CSET Fellow Saif M. Khan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ahead of the U.S.-China meetings.

Buying Silence: The Price of Internet Censorship in China

The Jamestown Foundation
| January 12, 2021

CSET Research Analyst Ryan Fedasiuk analyzes China's investment in internet and social media censorship.