NEW: The Trump admin clamped down on Anthropic following a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to Claude Mythos. Why? US officials were concerned the company may have ties to China.

SCOOP: The White House put export controls on Anthropic following a dispute over Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom's access to Mythos. Officials were concerned about what they believed were SK Telecom's ties to China, sources tell WIRED. w/ @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/sk-tel...

How many lessons does this story pack?! - If you ever thought everyone obeys the will of Xi, consider what this says about workarounds. - 上有政策下有对策 - And they have a sense of humor about it - Tesla “safety” theater - ”AI” guardrails vs user innovation - Online discourse in China—a goldmine

scoop: a former Meta employee who lost their job in the company’s recent layoffs was detained by ICE in El Paso, Texas, sources tell WIRED. It’s unclear whether they remain in custody. w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

NEW from me, @peard33.bsky.social, and @lmatsakis.bsky.social: Immigration agents have detained a Meta worker who recently lost their job in a massive round of layoffs, according to documents we viewed www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

SCOOP from @telliotter.bsky.social and @zeyiyang.bsky.social: RightsCon, the world’s largest digital rights conference, was canceled this year due to pressure from the Chinese government, which didn't want people from Taiwan to participate www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

I'm completely OBSESSED with cyberdecks and was so delighted to read this from @thiccreese.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cyberd...

Scoop: Rednote (aka 小红书/Xiaohongshu) is taking steps to separate its Chinese and international users. Users report being redirected to new intl web domain, whose separate privacy policy, updated in late March, says intl user data will be stored in Singapore. www.wired.com/story/rednot...

SCOOP from @zeyiyang.bsky.social: Xiaohongshu (or Rednote) is moving to split Chinese users from everyone else, threatening one of the last real bridges between the Chinese internet and the rest of the world www.wired.com/story/rednot...

NEW: Someone allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house then went to OpenAI headquarters to make threats at workers. @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

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

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"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