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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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Drawing from her CSET report, Research Analyst Ngor Luong explains what guidance funds are and how they fit into China's efforts to gain an edge in emerging technology. 

COCOM’s daughter?

World ECR
| May 13, 2022

In an opinion piece for World ECR, CSET's Emily Weinstein and Kevin Wolf explain why a multilateral export control regime is needed to address national security and human rights issues.

In his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee CSET Director Dewey Murdick recommends how the U.S. can stay ahead of China in the emerging technology race.

In his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CSET Director Dewey Murdick discussed China's strategy to move towards self-sufficiency in key technologies and steps the United States can take to respond.

In his latest CSET brief, Research Analyst Will Hunt explains why exports controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment against China are an important leveraging tool for the U.S. and its allies.

In an opinion piece for War of the Rocks, CSET's Alex Stephenson and Ryan Fedasiuk give a detailed analysis into the use of AI in a U.S.-Chinese conflict.

According to the Brookings Institution, CSET's report "Harnessed Lightning" gives insight into the China's AI funding.

How China’s united front system works overseas

The Strategist
| April 13, 2022

In an opinion piece for The Strategist, Ryan Fedasiuk gives an overview if China's united front system and its foreign facing role.

Russia’s Urban Warfare Predictably Struggles

Foreign Policy
| April 4, 2022

In an opinion piece for Foreign Policy, CSET's Margarita Konaev describes Russia's overestimation of its own capabilities while underestimating the difficulties of urban warfare during its invasion of Ukraine.

The China Initiative is Over — Now What?

The Wire China
| April 3, 2022

In an interview with The Wire China, Research Fellow Emily Weinstein discusses the future of research security and collaboration with China with the end of the China Initiative.