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6 days ago | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Edward Fishman |Rachel Ziemba |Pablo Chavez
The most recent quarterly earnings results of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft offer insights into how the Trump administration’s tariffs might affect tech companies’ capital expenditures on data centers and other infrastructure that supports their AI efforts. For now, the impact appears minimal, but in the medium and long term, US tariffs could have significant effects on companies’ artificial intelligence-related investments. The four companies are still making enormous outlays.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Rachel Ziemba |Geoffrey Gertz |Emily Kilcrease |Paul Scharre
AI expert Paul Scharre, executive vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security, joins Emily and Geoff to dig into the Biden Administration’s latest export controls on advanced semiconductors and the prospects for building a global regime to control AI diffusion.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Edward Fishman |Emily Kilcrease |Geoffrey Gertz
Emily and Geoff react to the nominations of Scott Bessent for U.S. Treasury Secretary and Howard Lutnick for U.S. Commerce Secretary and overall point man for trade and tariffs. Then Evan Robinson-Johnson, business reporter from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, joins to talk about the national security review of Nippon Steel’s bid to buy U.S. Steel - which both President Biden and President-elect Trump have vowed to block.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Gwendolyn Nowaczyk
Donald Trump's return to the White House is widely expected to reshape America's global priorities. With personnel choices and policy agendas that mark a significant break from the status quo, the Trump administration could redefine America's national security posture. CNAS experts are sharpening the conversation on what Trump’s appointments and policies mean for the future of the country. Continue reading this edition of Sharper to learn more.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Zeyi Yang
Source: Wired Journalist: Zeyi Yang Late last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new restrictions limiting what kinds of Chinese tech startups US venture capital firms can invest in for national security reasons. When they go into effect in January, the long-awaited measures will stop American VCs and other investors from pouring money into cutting-edge Chinese AI models.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Rachel Ziemba |Emily Kilcrease |Geoffrey Gertz
Podcast November 12, 2024 Will Technology Define the Future of Geopolitics? Rachel Ziemba, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Steve Paikin to discuss the era of growing geopolitical tensions paralleled by deepening ...
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Edward Fishman |Emily Kilcrease |Geoffrey Gertz |Michele Flournoy
Emily and Geoff tackle some of the most common questions on starting and building a career in the field of economic security, with the help of Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense as well as the co-founder and current Chair of the Board of the Center for a New American Security, and John Hughes, a partner at the strategic advisory firm DGA Group and a CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow.
Check out CNAS’ current internship and job opportunities at https://www.cnas.org/careers.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Geoffrey Gertz |Emily Kilcrease |Eleanor Hume
Join Emily Kilcrease and researcher Eleanor Hume to discuss the latest edition of CNAS's Sanctions by the Numbers series, examining how the U.S.'s sanctions policy on China has shifted under the Biden administration.
Find the full report and its findings here: Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Eleanor Hume |Rowan Scarpino
Executive SummaryThe Biden administration has exceeded the Trump administration in the number of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls placed on Chinese persons (i.e., individuals or entities). The Trump administration added 216 Chinese persons to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List and 259 Chinese persons to the Entity List.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Paul Scharre |Adam Tong |Emily Kilcrease |Geoffrey Gertz
That escalated quickly! Emily and Geoff discuss why the U.S. aim to deny China access to the computing power necessary for frontier AI capabilities has led to an ever expanding set of new export controls. They are joined by Reed Albergotti of Semafor to talk about what this means for the Middle East's tech ambitions and by Pablo Chavez to share his analysis on the drive for sovereign AI around the world.
