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🚨 New BRSL Publication: "Chokepoints, Competition, and Cooperation: Quantum Computing Export Controls in a New Era of Tech Diplomacy." #quantum #quantumcomputing #exportcontrols #techdiplomacy #security
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Drawing lessons from U.S. semiconductor controls on China, this paper highlights the importance to allied nations of correctly identifying chokepoints in the quantum computing supply chain and adapting controls as capabilities evolve across hardware and software.
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Read the full paper on the BRSL website, here: brsl.berkeley.edu/2026/05/28…

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🎙️ New BRSL podcast episode! This week on the BRSL Weekly Brief we're diving into three separate, yet deeply interconnected, topics: the ongoing Iran war, European pushes for rearmament, and worldwide semiconductor chip shortages.
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Many thanks to Robin Geiß of @UNIDIR for joining BRSL's Professor Andrew Reddie yesterday at the @GoldmanSchool for an illuminating talk on emerging technology, security, society, and how Dr. Geiß charts UNIDIR's strategic direction.
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The lecture was part of Professor Reddie's course “Progress? An Introduction to Technology and Public Policy,” examining the intersection of politics, security, and technology in the U.S. and across the globe.
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🎙️ New BRSL Podcast This week on your BRSL Weekly Brief, Professor Andrew W. Reddie answers questions about Super Micro and the alleged scheme by three employees, including the company’s co-founder, to send NVIDIA microchips to China in violation of U.S. export laws.
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🚨 New BRSL Brisk Assessment! In this new publication, BRSL Executive Director Leah Walker makes a case for why leading research institutions, like UC Berkeley, are a natural home for national security research, like the Lab's. @GoldmanSchool
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Because of the built-in culture of academic excellence and technological innovation, such institutions pose a great opportunity for research and allow researchers the space to forge ground-breaking solutions to complex geopolitical and national security-related issues.
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ICYMI: 🔊 We've posted another episode of our weekly news podcast, the BRSL Weekly Brief. This week's episode focuses on the battle between AI companies and the Pentagon surrounding autonomous weapons, the risks they pose, and how embedded they are in current operations already.
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