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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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A new CSET report reveals that U.S. universities are lagging behind China in the production of STEM PhDs.

China’s STEM Ph.D. push

Axios
| August 5, 2021

CSET Research Fellow discusses his latest data brief on China's investment into STEM PhD students.

CSET's Anna Puglisi discusses China's counterintelligence efforts in the private sector and academia in her testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Chinese Cyberthreats: The Impact on National Security

Gov Info Security
| August 5, 2021

In her testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CSET Senior Fellow Anna Puglisi discussing U.S. implications if China loses its "technological edge" to 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.

CSET Helen Toner weighs in on the Biden administration's China tech policy amidst the ongoing U.S.-China strategic competition.

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 reports unpack U.S. visa restrictions against Chinese students and Chinese students supported by the China Scholarship Council.

CSET's Dakota Cary describes China's plans to becomes a "cyber powerhouse" through the creation of its National Cybersecurity Center.

In his latest CSET publication, Dakota Cary unpacks the construction of China's National Cybersecurity Center.