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CSET’s Kathleen Curlee shared her expert insight in an interview with NPR. The segment examines SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings report since its IPO, investor concerns about the company’s valuation, and questions surrounding its ability to deliver on its ambitious long-term plans.

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30. The interview examines growing concerns that AI capabilities are advancing faster than the safeguards needed to keep them safe, following new research showing frontier AI models engaging in deceptive and harmful behavior during testing.

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by Fortune. The article examines how uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration’s AI governance, combined with the lower cost and flexibility of Chinese AI models, is influencing businesses’ decisions and raising concerns about U.S. competitiveness and national security.

Assessing Sovereign AI: A Two-Pronged Framework

Julie George
| August 4, 2026

This piece offers a two-pronged framework for assessing sovereign AI based on why states pursue it and how they do so. Five country case studies trace the distinct pathways the United States, China, France, India, and Singapore have each taken toward sovereign AI.

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an op-ed published by Fortune. The article examines how an AI-driven cyberattack on Hugging Face highlights a major blind spot in current AI policy and argues that oversight must expand beyond pre-release testing to address risks from advanced AI systems used internally by companies.

CSET’s Sam Bresnick and Fanny Chao shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by War on the Rocks. The article examines Taiwan’s challenges in adopting artificial intelligence for military applications, highlighting how the gap between Taiwan’s world-leading semiconductor industry and its limited military AI readiness could affect its ability to deter Chinese aggression and future collaboration with partners.

CSET Senior Fellow Emelia Probasco shares her experience and the remarks she gave at the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War, which took place at Borgo Laudato Si’, Vatican.

CSET’s Jessica Ji and Andrew Lohn shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by CyberScoop. The article argues that blocking access to advanced AI models is not a sustainable solution to AI-enabled cyber threats, emphasizing instead the need for a long-term national cybersecurity strategy led by the federal government and supported by AI companies.

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an op-ed published by Newsweek. The article examines how the Trump administration’s approach to China has reshaped the U.S.-China relationship and what it could mean for American competitiveness and global influence.

CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by MIT Technology Review. The article examines how OpenAI developed GPT-Red, an AI "super-hacker" designed to automatically identify vulnerabilities in large language models and strengthen their defenses against cyberattacks through AI-powered red-teaming.