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Mina Narayanan @minanrn.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Read the update here:

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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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jul 2

✨ 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 🧵👇

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Apr 22

✨ 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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Facial recognition regs, state and local docs, frontier frameworks: AGORA roundup #1 – Emerging Technology Observatory

Updates from ETO's AI governance tracker

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Apr 2

👀👀 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...

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

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 6

We're hiring a software engineer! 🥳 Our small but mighty team builds tools and data that drive the conversation on emerging tech and geopolitics. Come help us grow!

CSET @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · Mar 3

CSET is hiring 📢

We’re hiring a software engineer to support @emergingtechobs.bsky.social. Help build high-quality public tools and datasets to inform critical decisions on emerging tech issues.

Interested or know someone who would be? Learn more and apply 👇 cset.georgetown.edu/job/software...

Software Engineer | Center for Security and Emerging Technology

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), under the School of Foreign Service, is hiring a Software Engineer. The Software Engineer will be a generalist who can flex between full-stack w...

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

Don't miss the latest - sign up to get updates when we publish new analysis: eto.tech#subscribe

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Creating high-quality data resources to inform critical decisions on emerging technology issues

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

Part 2: eto.tech/blog/hot-top...

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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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

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

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

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

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

Hot topics in chip design and fabrication research | Created with Datawrapper

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

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

Leading organizations in chip design and fabrication research | Created with Datawrapper

Top producers of chip design and fabrication research articles, 2018-2023

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

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...

Documentation: Merged Academic Corpus – Emerging Technology Observatory

From the Emerging Technology Observatory

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Mar 4

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

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Jacob Feldgoise @jacob-feldgoise.bsky.social · Mar 3

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

Key trends in global semiconductor research

China produces the most in a massive field - and more insights from our Research Almanac

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Hanna Dohmen @hannadohmen.bsky.social · Feb 28

Does China have a compute surplus or shortage? Another interesting article flagged by @emergingtechobs.bsky.social describes the complex picture as “short-term sufficiency, long-term shortage” and includes a list of local government compute projects.

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Vikram Venkatram @vikramvenkatram.bsky.social · Feb 21

A really great and insightful data-driven piece from my colleague @stephbatalis.bsky.social, underscoring the importance of NIH and NSF funding for biotech. Worth a read!

emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Feb 21

🧪✨New blog post✨🧪 How NIH and NSF funding powers American research at the leading edge of AI and bio, as China challenges for leadership - a guest analysis from CSET's very own @stephbatalis.bsky.social using Map of Science data eto.tech/blog/federal...

Federal funding underpins American research across 'hot' AI + bio research clusters – Emerging Technology Observatory

As China challenges, NIH and NSF funds play a key role in U.S. research efforts

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Feb 21

Give the Map of Science a spin: sciencemap.eto.tech

Switch to list view to view the clusters in the Map in a table. You can add and remove columns, or click on individual rows to access the detail view. Summary view displays summary information for all clusters meeting the current set of filters.

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Feb 21

🧪✨New blog post✨🧪 How NIH and NSF funding powers American research at the leading edge of AI and bio, as China challenges for leadership - a guest analysis from CSET's very own @stephbatalis.bsky.social using Map of Science data eto.tech/blog/federal...

Federal funding underpins American research across 'hot' AI + bio research clusters – Emerging Technology Observatory

As China challenges, NIH and NSF funds play a key role in U.S. research efforts

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

Stay tuned for more analysis of China's AI sector - sign up for our newsletter here: eto.tech#subscribe

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Creating high-quality data resources to inform critical decisions on emerging technology issues

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

(To go deeper, explore Scout yourself at scout.eto.tech - it's our discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues, with plain-English summaries and tags to help along the way.)

Scout

ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language writing on science and technology.

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

4️⃣ Our Scout Editors' Picks blog series has been highlighting key Chinese advances AI monthly, from multimodal models to industrial robots: eto.tech/blog/?tag=sc...

Blog – Emerging Technology Observatory

From the Emerging Technology Observatory

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

3️⃣ Chinese state universities are highly active in key AI application areas, like drone control and underwater robotics: eto.tech/blog/profili...

Profiling research institutions with the Map of Science, part 4: Chinese schools and robot fish – Emerging Technology Observatory

A deep dive into Chinese university research

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

2️⃣ Chinese firms are going toe to toe with U.S. S&P 500 giants in AI research and patenting, according to data from our PARAT tracker for private-sector AI activity: eto.tech/blog/ai-lead...

AI leaders in the S&P 500: perspectives from PARAT – Emerging Technology Observatory

Tracking AI publishing, patenting, and hiring trends across America's biggest companies - and their global rivals

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

1️⃣ China and the United States each produced about a third of the world's top-cited AI research articles from 2017 to 2022. The five biggest producers of AI research articles worldwide are *all* Chinese research institutions, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences: eto.tech/blog/state-o...

The state of global AI research – Emerging Technology Observatory

More insights from ETO's Research Almanac and Map of Science

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emergingtechobs.bsky.social @emergingtechobs.bsky.social · Jan 28

Feeling surprised by the DeepSeek news? China's advances in AI come as no surprise to surprise to ETO users... 😉 In recent months, we've tapped ETO tools and data to explore the tight U.S.-China competition for AI leadership - some highlights: 🧵

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