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A Changing Export Control Landscape: H200 Exports, Remote Access Rules, and What Comes Next

A Changing Export Control Landscape: H200 Exports, Remote Access Rules, and What Comes Next

January 2026 was, in many ways, an inflection point for export controls. From the resumption of Nvidia H200 sales to China to congressional discussion on restricting remote cloud access, IST's AI Chip Export Control Initiative team unpacks what these developments mean for the future.

AI, artificial intelligence, Bureau of Industry and Security, China, chip, export control, NVIDIA, semiconductor

February 24, 2026

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon – IST Hosts Book Talk with Author Ankit Panda

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon – IST Hosts Book Talk with Author Ankit Panda

IST’s Nuclear Policy team hosted international security expert and author Ankit Panda in Palo Alto to learn more about his latest book unpacking the trilateral nuclear competition between the United States, China, and Russia. IST CEO Philip Reiner sat down for a fireside chat with Ankit, highlighting in their discussion the need to collectively identify political and technical solutions to address the nexus of emerging technologies and the new nuclear age.

AI, and communications, artificial inteligence, China, control, NC3, nuclear, nuclear command, nuclear risk, Russia, United States

November 17, 2025

Q&A: The Missing Middle: Solving America’s Deep-Tech Financing Gap

Q&A: The Missing Middle: Solving America’s Deep-Tech Financing Gap

In this month's edition of The TechnologIST, Lillian Ilsley-Greene sits down with Fatima Faisal Khan to discuss a new report on how to close America's deep tech financing gap in strategic competition with China.

biotech, China, deep tech, energy, quantum, venture capital

October 31, 2025

The Missing Middle: How to Close America’s Deep-Tech Financing Gap in Strategic Competition with China

The Missing Middle: How to Close America’s Deep-Tech Financing Gap in Strategic Competition with China

The United States and China are locked in competition to finance & deploy foundational technologies that will underwrite economic leadership and ensure national security for decades to come. Building on the prior work of IST’s Strategic Balancing Initiative, "The Missing Middle" digs into the systematic gap between early-stage capital and late-stage financing facing American deep-tech companies and the strengths and weaknesses of China's bifurcated system.

capital, China, deep tech, finance, hardware, national security, quantum, venture capital

October 31, 2025

Book Talk | The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon

October 23, 2025 2:00 pm

Book Talk | The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon

In a world with increasing nuclear dyads, can emerging technologies make us safer – or are we opening Pandora's Box? Join IST in Palo Alto, CA or virtually for a book talk with Ankit Panda.

AI, China, international security, NC3, nuclear, nuclear dyad, nuclear security, Russia

October 6, 2025

Q&A: National security, competition, and risk reduction — AI at IST

Q&A: National security, competition, and risk reduction — AI at IST

As AI models continue to proliferate and gain prominence, what are the cross-sector implications for national security, strategic competitiveness, and more? In this month's edition of the TechnologIST, Lillian Ilsley-Greene sat down with IST AI experts Jennifer Tang, Gabrielle Tran, and Fatima Faisal Khan to hear about how their work addresses the potential risks and opportunities of AI.

AI, antitrust, CFIUS, China, chips, competition, national security, NVIDIA, outbound investment, TechnologIST, venture capital

August 29, 2025

Congressional Oversight on Salt Typhoon: Missing An Opportunity

Congressional Oversight on Salt Typhoon: Missing An Opportunity

The Salt Typhoon intrusion into U.S. telecom networks is “one of the greatest intelligence operations ever conducted against the United States.” How should Congress have responded? IST Senior Vice President for Policy Nicholas Leiserson unpacks the missed opportunities for oversight, and the path forward.

China, congress, cybersecurity, legislation, PRC, Salt Typhoon, SolarWinds

May 6, 2025

Episode 42: Preparing for Unnatural Disasters

Episode 42: Preparing for Unnatural Disasters

To kick off Hack the Plant season 5, host Bryson Bort welcomes back IST Executive in Residence Joshua Corman to learn more about UnDisruptable27, his Cyber Civil Defense initiative driving the safety, security, and resilience of four lifeline basic human needs.

China, critical infrastructure, disruptions, resilience

March 11, 2025

A Transatlantic Perspective on Quantum Tech

A Transatlantic Perspective on Quantum Tech

IST CSO Megan Stifel welcomes Markus Pflitsch. Formerly in the financial services sector, Markus transitioned back into the quantum space in 2019. He details his path to becoming CEO and founder of a leading quantum company, his unique take on the quantum ecosystem, and the differences in the funding environments in Europe and the United States.

artificial intelligence, China, Europe, quantum, venture capital

December 18, 2024

The Future is Quantum

The Future is Quantum

IST CSO Megan Stifel interviews Stefan Leichenauer, a member of the inaugural team at SandboxAQ with experience in both AI and quantum science. Stefan explains his journey from academia to private industry, SandboxAQ’s origins within Alphabet, and where quantum science is going next.

artificial intelligence, China, quantum

December 12, 2024

The Cleantech Boom

The Cleantech Boom

IST Chief Trust Officer Steve Kelly speaks with Dr. Alex Gagnon, co-founder and CEO of Banyu Carbon and an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Oceanology. They discuss the transformative potential of direct ocean capture in carbon dioxide removal and explore the ecosystem of partnerships needed to scale cleantech solutions.

carbon removal, China, cleantech, climate change, venture capital

December 5, 2024

Why Venture Capital Is Indispensable for U.S. Industrial Strategy: Activating Investors to Realize Disruptive National Capabilities

Why Venture Capital Is Indispensable for U.S. Industrial Strategy: Activating Investors to Realize Disruptive National Capabilities

How can the U.S. realize disruptive national capabilities and establish technological leadership in the geostrategic competition with China? From IST’s Strategic Balancing Initiative, a new report calls for harnessing the power of the venture capital industry to unlock innovation, and offers insights for policymakers & practitioners.

China, industrial strategy, quantum, research and development, techno-industrial competition, venture capital

October 15, 2024

Q&A with Josh Corman on UnDisruptable27

Q&A with Josh Corman on UnDisruptable27

This month at BSides Las Vegas, IST Executive in Residence Joshua Corman announced the launch of UnDisruptable27, a new initiative that seeks to inform, influence, and inspire community action to strengthen the safety and security of our lifeline critical infrastructure systems by 2027. Director of Strategic Communications Sophia Mauro sat down with Josh to learn more about the newly-launched effort to strengthen the resilience of lifeline critical infrastructure.

China, critical infrastructure, TechnologIST

August 26, 2024

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

WIRED's Lily Hay Newman interviewed Josh Corman on the launch of UnDisruptable27. "A longtime critical infrastructure security researcher is launching a project to communicate with utility operators, municipalities, and regular people in creative ways about both urgency and optimism around protecting critical infrastructure now,” writes Newman.

BSides, China, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity

August 6, 2024

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

This concept paper, the third and last working paper in the series, lays out how a third round of working group meetings further explored those initial solutions, building out specific ways to operationalize them, identifying specific questions that need to be addressed to achieve these goals, and suggesting potential mechanisms for achieving them

biotech, China, energy, industrial strategy, quantum

June 28, 2024

China: Nuclear Crisis Communications and Risk Reduction

China: Nuclear Crisis Communications and Risk Reduction

In this brief, IST's Sylvia Mishra interviewed Dr. Tong Zhao for his insights on China’s approach to crisis communications and nuclear risk reduction.

China, nuclear crisis communications, nuclear risk reduction

June 26, 2024