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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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To Compete With China, America Must Compete With Itself

The National Interest
| March 26, 2022

In an opinion piece for The National Interest, Research Analysts Dakota Cary and Ali Crawford make the case for the use of U.S. federal prize competitions to spur innovation to compete with China.

In an interview with Fortune, Margarita Konaev breaks down Russia's AI ambitions and how the current economic sanctions are hindering it progress.

CSET's Margarita Konaev unpacks Russia's diminishing tech development as a result of tech brain drain and severed foreign partnership from its invasion of Ukraine.

If the U.S. is to succeed in semiconductor manufacturing, the recruitment of foreign-born talent to the U.S. is needed according to Research Analyst Will Hunt in an interview with the South China Morning Post.

Two decades of AI: Where does India stand today?

Analytics India Magazine
| March 16, 2022

According to CSET's report "Mapping India's AI Potential," AI-related patent applications grew tenfold from 2012 to 2018.

Russia’s AI industry faces collapse

Politico
| March 8, 2022

Margarita Konaev discussed Russia's stalled AI progress as a result of new technology sanctions and brain drain.

Research Fellow Diana Gehlhaus calls for coordination across the DOD to cultivating talent who can advance the use of AI in an opinion piece for Defense One.

Research Analyst Ryan Fedasiuk comments on the United States' latest Indo-Pacific strategy.

U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

IEEE Spectrum
| December 28, 2021

According to a CSET report, China is actively keeping up with U.S. intelligentized warfare systems with the development of AI-based target recognition and automatic-weapon-firing research.

CSET's Anna Puglisi offers her analysis on China's use of state-sponsored espionage for science and technology development.