Arguments about AI aren't just about the future — they're trapped it in nymag.com/intelligence...

This week’s Made in China is exactly the kind of reporting I hoped to work on when I joined WIRED. @zeyiyang.bsky.social talked to people in China caught up in the OpenClaw hype, and wrote a really smart story about what the saga says about the country’s AI market www.wired.com/story/china-...

SCOOP: The Pentagon/Anthropic feud has been all over the news, but few details about how the military actually uses AI chatbots have come out, until today @carolinehaskins.bsky.social uncovered tons of specifics about how these tools are likely being deployed www.wired.com/story/palant...

happy Marnie day to all who celebrate

I unexpectedly love being a blue head

SCOOP from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social & @laurengoode.bsky.social Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED: www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

SCOOP from @knibbs.bsky.social: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

So excited for @carolinehaskins.bsky.social to make her debut in Made in China this week!! On TikTok, Chinese drone manufacturers are peddling tools of modern warfare but presenting them with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising www.wired.com/story/pew-pe...

just had my debut Made in China guest appearance!! : ) got to collab with @lmatsakis.bsky.social on this piece about the Chinese companies selling anti-drone tech on TikTok, featuring the opening line "PEW, PEW, PEW!" www.wired.com/story/pew-pe...

This is like seeing HQ kill the joke of 67. Chinese Embassy in the US has started a “becomingchinesechallenge” on Facebook. Now you have a four week window to become Chinese! Just kidding that’s the death time of this trend.

Here's your mystery of the week: A blog about a small island off the coast of Canada, personal portfolio websites, weather forecast platforms, Shopify sites, and the US federal gov—a wide range of websites have reported being hit by a massive influx of bots tied to China and Singapore since 2025.

really, really loved this week’s edition of Made in China. such a fascinating and bizarre story, and @zeyiyang.bsky.social absolutely nailed it www.wired.com/story/made-i...

Leah is one of the best, most fearless reporters I've ever worked with and it's a privilege to be on her team

FYI subscribe as @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it

For years, the consensus was that Huawei and Xiaomi would finally crush the iPhone in China. That’s not what happened www.wired.com/story/how-ip...

This is happening right now! Come to the comments on the article below and ask me and @zeyiyang.bsky.social any and all questions you have about China + tech

I was at Davos when this came out, but the story meant a lot to me so I wanted to take a moment to share it now www.wired.com/story/china-...

NEW: ICE is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that could “directly support investigations activities,” reports @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

this is a very good feature about how one town in China fully reoriented itself to become the dominant crystal supplier in the world. a microcosm of why china is so good at manufacturing things & has become the leader in cornering all sorts of niche markets: www.wired.com/story/china-...

I'm still on leave so I'm reading WIRED's new China-themed issue for the first time—and it rocks. Especially this story ABOUT rocks, and why most crystals you see at your local yoga studio or juice bar come through one town in northern China: www.wired.com/story/china-...

The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China. www.wired.com/china-issue/

Found this piece, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social, to be nuanced and illuminating. Chinamaxxing as a state of "ironic defeat" www.wired.com/story/made-i...

The article I've been WAITING TO READ go @lmatsakis.bsky.social

In case you didn’t get the memo, everyone is feeling very Chinese these days. Chronically online people like @lmatsakis.bsky.social and I have been tracking the zeitgeist of "You met me at a very Chinese time of my life," "Chinamaxxing," and all other variations. Here's why everyone is saying it:

2) We are hiring a senior editor for our business desk, where you'll work with the amazing @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social and an insanely good squad of reporters:

Come work with me and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social! WIRED is hiring a Senior Business editor in NYC to work closely with our team. Feel free to reach out if you think you might be a good fit or have questions about what it's like at WIRED (it's the best) condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

This week's edition of Made in China includes stories from @ivylala.bsky.social, @yaling.bsky.social, & @radiimedia.bsky.social Sign up for Made in China, our weekly briefing on everything you need to know about Chinese tech, here: wired.com/newsletter

Made in China, our newsletter from @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social, really makes me smarter about the world on a weekly basis.

"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

the one and only @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has obtained new photos and records related to the dead bear RFK Jr. dumped in Central Park: www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

can't think of anyone better to be writing this book

Loved this piece about Taiwan’s public transit keychains from @lmatsakis.bsky.social, and especially this one collector: “Later, I had a lunchbox-shaped one, but looking at it too long would make me hungry, so I never really used it. I just kept it as a toy.” www.wired.com/story/icash-...

You may have heard of the "DoorDash girl"—a driver who alleged a customer exposed himself and filmed it. Afterwards, many Black content creators saw AI-generated versions of themselves defending the customer on TikTok, though they'd said nothing about it: www.wired.com/story/the-vi...

SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China." latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

SCOOP: Apple just pulled two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from after receiving an order from the country's top internet regulator. From me & @zeyiyang.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/apple-...

One of the best newsletters I receive tbqh

Despite Trump's tariffs and never-ending political drama, TikTok's e-commerce business is exploding, @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports in this week's Made in China www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...

this is so good and really captures what's sinister about everyone befriending chatbots. "They provide some facsimile of companionship while allowing users to avoid uncomfortable interactions or reciprocity," writes @damonberes.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Jake is incredibly well-sourced, enthusiastic, kind, and just a pleasure to work with. I am going to miss having his byline on WIRED so much

Incredible reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all

The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

If you remember this video of Chinese guys mimicking AI, then I've got a treat for you: I just talked to its creator, a 29-year-old actor in Hangzhou named Mu Tianran 穆天然, about how he captures AI slop's essensse so well, and why Sora 2 made him worry about his job. www.wired.com/story/made-i...

Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT: www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

@carolinehaskins.bsky.social got all of the complaints Americans sent to the Federal Trade Commission about ChatGPT. A handful of them are from people who said the chatbot reinforced their delusions and made psychotic episodes worse www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

Really interesting stuff from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social here on "GEO," the SEO equivalent for large language models like Chat GPT: www.wired.com/story/goodby...

Lmao, Chinese online sellers are already making replicas of the stolen treasures from Louvre. No one moves faster than them.

The Chinese government has unveiled a program to woo foreign talent -- right as the US admin is cracking down on H-1B visas.

For Made in China this week, I wrote about China's new K visa program, which launched right as the US made H-1Bs dramatically more expensive. Sign up for the newsletter here: www.wired.com/newsletter

this is a really important project, and I can't think of anyone better than @damonberes.com to be leading it