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...

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.

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!

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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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

🧪✨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...

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

(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.)

Blog – Emerging Technology Observatory From the Emerging Technology Observatory

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...

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

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

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

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...

The state of global AI research – Emerging Technology Observatory More insights from ETO's Research Almanac and Map of Science

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...

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: 🧵

In a hurry? Breeze through this week's AI+energy executive order in AGORA - with section-level summaries to help you quickly find what's of interest 😎 agora.eto.tech/instrument/1...

Track global research, patenting, and investment in artificial intelligence and its applications with ETO’s dashboard.

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Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.

🤩🤩🤩 @khadijaalam.bsky.social used ETO data to map global AI research: "The U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners...AI researchers in non-Western countries are participating in more transnational research collaborations." Read on at @restofworld.org: restofworld.org/2025/us-chin...

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New features: explore research on chips and LLMs with ETO tools – Emerging Technology Observatory Adding topics to the Map of Science, Research Almanac, datasets and more

We also integrated new filters into our tools to help you pinpoint research related to large language models and chip design and fabrication - read all about it in our blog post: eto.tech/blog/new-fea...