The National Security Case for Limiting China's Access to Advanced U.S. Compute: Evidence from PLA Procurement Documents – Emerging Technology Observatory Takeaways from CSET's Ongoing Analysis of the Chinese Military's AI Wish List

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🚨 U.S. AI chips are powering China's military AI ambitions

This Wednesday, HFAC will consider strengthening restrictions on China's access to U.S. AI chips.

In our new blog post, we analyze thousands of PLA procurement documents to show what would mean for national security:

Saying goodbye to ORCA and PARAT – Emerging Technology Observatory Important details about the future of these two tools

We've made the difficult decision to sunset ORCA and PARAT effective May 11, 2026. For more details and information on how you can continue to access underlying data, see our recent blog post.
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Big wins for Qwen and open-source: editors' picks from ETO Scout, volume 27 (1/29/26-3/9/26) – Emerging Technology Observatory Plus: agentic AI for manufacturing, space-based data centers, and tariff refunds

Check out other top stories in the full post here:
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New editors’ picks from Scout! Top highlights:
1) Qwen reaches 32.1% market share in China
2) China released a new AI + Manufacturing plan (English translation available via CSET)
3) BYD’s U.S. subsidiaries are suing to reclaim tariffs paid

Map of Science Explore the world's research literature, easily pinpointing key trends, hotspots, and concepts in global science and technology.

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1) Find me research that's AI-focused, growing quickly, and highly cited in patents sciencemap.eto.tech?ai_pred=50%2...

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Big changes to the Map of Science – Emerging Technology Observatory A new clustering approach and better search capabilities

Check out the blog post for more details on the update: eto.tech/blog/map-of-...

🎉 We've just launched a HUGE update to the Map of Science at sciencemap.eto.tech!

This update includes:

1) Nearly 92,000 new research clusters based on citation links and text similarity

2) Better search capabilities for finding research on specific subfields and topics

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Mapping the AI Governance Landscape: Pilot Test and Update We used large language models to classify over 950 AI governance documents from CSET’s AGORA archive into AI risk and mitigation categories. We compared model and human performance, refined prompts fo...

Together, they piloted a method to map 950+ AGORA AI governance docs to multiple extensible taxonomies — building better ways to navigate the global AI policy landscape. 🌍📊 airisk.mit.edu/blog/mapping...

Plus, researchers from the MIT AI Risk Initiative — Simon Mylius, Peter Slattery, Yan Zhu, Alexander Saeri, Jess Graham, Michael Noetel, and Neil Thompson — teamed up with CSET’s @minanrn.bsky.social and @adrianthinnyun.com.

Exploring California's 2024 AI Bills in AGORA – Emerging Technology Observatory Using AGORA to explore California's 2024 AI bills

In other AGORA news, Devin Von Arx (CSET 2025 summer intern) used AGORA data to publish an ETO blog and a companion CSET blog on California’s approach to AI governance.
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Need a refresher on the Plan’s recommended policy actions?
Check out CSET’s AI Action Plan Tracker here 👉
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@ojdaniels.bsky.social, @jessicaji.bsky.social, @jacob-feldgoise.bsky.social, and @alicrawford.bsky.social weigh in on:
• Open questions raised by the Plan
• Security-related recommendations
• Export controls
• Workforce priorities

Revisiting the AI Action Plan: AGORA roundup #3 – Emerging Technology Observatory Updates from ETO's AI governance tracker

What’s taken shape in the four months since the release of the AI Action Plan? 🧵👇

In the latest @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social ETO AGORA roundup, four CSET experts dig into the Plan’s policy impact and what’s next for AI governance. eto.tech/blog/agora-a...

🎉We’re excited to unveil PATHWISE, our new tool for tracking emerging technology talent.

PATHWISE maps the supply and demand of the AI and cybersecurity workforce across geographic regions.

Check it out today at pathwise.eto.tech!

Check out the second @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social blog from @sonali-sr.bsky.social and myself where we explore the strategies, risks, and harms addressed by AI-related laws enacted by Congress between Jan 2020 and March 2025 🧵1/6 eto.tech/blog/ai-laws...

Exploring AI in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: AGORA roundup #2 – Emerging Technology Observatory Updates from ETO's AI governance tracker

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✨ The AI moratorium has been struck down ⚡ but what else does the Big Beautiful Bill have to say about AI? Check out the latest AGORA update 📷 to learn about the provisions on border security, Medicare, and more! Link in thread 🧵👇

Facial recognition regs, state and local docs, frontier frameworks: AGORA roundup #1 – Emerging Technology Observatory Updates from ETO's AI governance tracker

✨ Our first AGORA update ✨ brings you up to speed on the latest from our AI governance tracker - featuring highlights from hundreds of laws, regulations and policy documents recently to AGORA. eto.tech/blog/agora-a...

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DeepSeek energizes China's chipmakers: editors' picks from ETO Scout, volume 21 (2/27/25-3/31/25) – Emerging Technology Observatory Plus: Homegrown hallucinations, solid-state batteries, and an AI push in Chinese schools

👀👀 Homegrown hallucinations, a jolt of DeepSeek energy for China's chipmakers, and an AI push in Chinese schools - our latest Scout editors' picks roundup is extra-packed with interesting science and tech writing from across the Chinese internet 🔭 Read the full roundup here: eto.tech/blog/scout-e...

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Hot topics in chip design and fabrication research: insights from the Map of Science – Emerging Technology Observatory Neuromorphic computing, photonics, new materials and more

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The state of global chip research – Emerging Technology Observatory China produces the most in a massive field - and more insights from ETO's Research Almanac

Explore the full analysis on our blog! Part 1: eto.tech/blog/state-g...

Hot topics in chip design and fabrication research | Created with Datawrapper Chip-related research clusters in the ETO Map of Science with at least 1000 recent articles and a 75+ growth rating

We also used the Map of Science to identify especially active hotspots across this huge research corpus, revealing some key topics in "post-Moore's law" semiconductors. www.datawrapper.de/_/Rviqj

Leading organizations in chip design and fabrication research | Created with Datawrapper Top producers of chip design and fabrication research articles, 2018-2023

Chinese organizations are big producers, with the U.S. following in terms of raw output - both across all papers and highly cited papers (NB: we're analyzing English-language, publicly released research only) www.datawrapper.de/_/p0atg

Documentation: Merged Academic Corpus – Emerging Technology Observatory From the Emerging Technology Observatory

We worked with subject-matter experts and large language models to flag chip research across our massive Merged Academic Corpus, identifying hundreds of thousands of articles over the last five years 📈📈📈 eto.tech/dataset-docs...

Read @Nature today for new ETO findings on global semiconductor research - leaders, growth, and hotspots, from photonics to neuromorphics... www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧵👇

Key trends in global semiconductor research China produces the most in a massive field - and more insights from our Research Almanac

Very interesting report on trends in semiconductor research from @emergingtechobs.bsky.social: etoblog.substack.com/p/key-trends...