Emerging Technology Observatory

After careful consideration, the Emerging Technology Observatory will be sunsetting two of its tools – ORCA (Open-source software Research and Community Activity) and PARAT (Private-Sector AI-Related Activity Tracker) – effective May 11, 2026. After that date, both tools will no longer be accessible on the ETO website. Since their respective launches, ORCA and PARAT served as valuable resources f…

Plus: agentic AI for manufacturing, space-based data centers, and tariff refunds Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - China's industrial policy for the application of AI technology in the manufacturing sector, which f…

CSET's ETO AGORA platform provides detailed summaries, full text and thematic tags for over 1000 AI-focused laws and policies from the U.S. and around the world, including 45 documents added to AGORA over the last three months. Now, we're announcing the FY 2026 NDAA AGORA collection: a repository of all 37 AI-related sections in the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. Plus, you c…

Plus: flying cars, rare earth exports, and the Qwen app Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors�’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - Chinese EDA firms pursued IPOs and M&A in late 2025 while U.S. export controls and tool gaps pushed domestic firms toward “…

Today, the Emerging Technology Observatory is launching a major update to our Map of Science. This tool offers policymakers and researchers an open, interactive way to pinpoint key trends, hotspots, and concepts in global science and technology. Previously, research clusters featured in the Map of Science were based on groups of articles that cited each other. In most cases, these groups included…

CSET's ETO AGORA platform provides detailed summaries, full text and thematic tags for over 900 AI-focused laws and policies from the U.S. and around the world. We added 18 documents to AGORA over the last four months. One of these documents is the AI Action Plan, the Trump administration's strategy to spur AI innovation; expand data centers, energy infrastructure, and semiconductor manufacturing…

The CSET blog California's Approach to AI Governance details California's 2024 AI-related legislation and highlights how this approach builds upon the state's history of regulating new technologies. Of the 18 California AI-related laws enacted in 2024, and covered in that analysis, eight can be found in ETO's AGORA (as of writing). AGORA is a living collection of AI-related laws, regulations, sta…

We’re excited to introduce PATHWISE (Prototype Analytics for Tracking High-Demand Workforce in Innovative Skill Ecosystems), ETO’s new tool for identifying and analyzing emerging technology talent in the United States. PATHWISE maps the supply and demand of the AI and cybersecurity workforce across geographic regions. It also highlights the educational institutions that produce the most graduates…

The Emerging Technology Observatory is launching enhancements to several of our tools and datasets. These enhancements stem from improvements to our Merged Academic Corpus (MAC) which contains detailed information on over 280 million scholarly articles, resulting in a more up-to-date, accessible, and accurate look into the research landscape using ETO’s Research Almanac, Country Activity Tracker,…

Plus: Cambricon's explosive growth, commercial fusion power, and a leaked trade secret Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - Artificial intelligence experts discussed alignment between human and AI values during a conf…

Plus: talent poaching, plagiarism accusations, and illegal exports of EDA tools Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - On Aug 2, Zhejiang University unveiled Wukong, a neuromorphic computer with more than 2 billion neur…

In the second installation of our blog series analyzing 147 AI-related laws enacted by Congress between January 2020 and March 2025 from AGORA, we explore the governance strategies, risk-related concepts, and harms addressed in the legislation. In the first blog, we showed that the majority of these AI-related legislative documents were drawn from National Defense Authorization Acts and apply to …

In this two-part analysis, we use data from the Emerging Technology Observatory's AGORA to explore AI-related legislation that was enacted by Congress between January 2020 and March 2025. This first blog explores the origin and application domains of the AI-related legislation we reviewed. The second blog examines the governance strategies, risk-related concepts, and harms covered by this legisla…

Today, the Emerging Technology Observatory is launching a major update to our Semiconductor Supply Chain Explorer. This tool offers policymakers and researchers an open, interactive way to understand the essential inputs, countries, and companies involved in producing advanced chips. The new version of the tool features two major updates, which enhance the detail and timeliness of the tool: - Com…

ETO's AGORA platform provides detailed summaries, full text and thematic annotations for over 900 AI-focused laws and policies from the U.S. and around the world. We added 42 documents to AGORA over the last two months, including AI-related provisions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the sprawling tax and immigration spending bill that Republicans hope to sign into law by July 4. One AI-relat…

Plus: advances in quantum, massive mergers, and a robot half-marathon Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - Pakistan claims that Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets shot down five Indian aircraft over Kashmir, raising sign…

Plus: new rules for facial recognition, a massive order for H20 chips, and Beijing's flood of returnees Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - China's official readout of a Chinese Politburo collective study session on …

Last year, ETO released what we believe is the most systematic analysis then published of global research into AI safety, drawing on data from our Research Almanac and the hundreds of millions of articles in our Merged Academic Corpus. We recently updated the Almanac with data through the end of 2023, giving us an opportunity to revisit last year's findings. Here's updates on the state of global …

ETO's AGORA platform provides detailed summaries, full text and thematic annotations for AI-focused laws and policies from the U.S. and around the world. We added 150 documents to AGORA over the last two months - here are a few you may have missed: Chinese central government: Security Management Measures for the Application of Facial Recognition Technology (issued 3/21/25) - Regulates facial reco…

Plus: Homegrown hallucinations, solid-state batteries, and an AI push in Chinese schools Scout is ETO's discovery tool for Chinese-language news and commentary on technology issues. See the latest editors’ picks, browse the feed by topic, or sign up for customized e-mail alerts at https://scout.eto.tech. - Microsoft’s huge AI and IoT research lab in the Shanghai Zhangjiang High-tech Park has repo…