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

For this week's edition of Made in China, @zeyiyang.bsky.social spoke to Dan Wang about his new book, which argues that China is an engineering state and America is a nation ruled by lawyers www.wired.com/story/dan-wa...

one of the best film reviews I've read in a while, I miss when more places published work like this. “It may shock some Americans to learn that many Chinese people, on many days, don’t even have the thought of America cross their minds,” @jennygzhang.bsky.social writes slate.com/culture/2025...

🐜 🐜 🐜 New from @knibbs.bsky.social: "Inside the world of illicit wildlife trafficking, there’s a growing assumption that nobody in government is paying attention." www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

$670 million worth of Labubus have been sold this year so far already, @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports

Really really good piece from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social on Palantir: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Trump recently fired one of our top economists after her agency published a disappointing jobs report. China shows how manipulating economic data erodes government credibility: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US. www.wired.com/story/china-...

"AI companies used what amounts to the collective history of our species to create software that obscures its very richness and complexity." www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

This snippet is particularly insightful. Once again, "attention is all we need", in reverse :)

"But perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence suggesting that ChatGPT regurgitated the language of Warhammer 40,000 is that it kept asking if The Atlantic was interested in PDFs." Amazing blog from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

I wrote about how AI chatbots strip cultural and historical context away from language. What remains is merely a ghost in the machine, and it's repeatedly making people confused and scared www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Love this from @lmatsakis.bsky.social about *why* it seemed like ChatGPT was satanic www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

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Welcome to the 1st edition of WIRED's Made in China newsletter: How Chinese Short Dramas Conquered the World, aka "The Secret Life of My Not-Billionaire BF Who's Addicted to Vertical Soap Operas." To get more like this from @lmatsakis.bsky.social and me, sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

The first edition of Made in China is here! Working with @lmatsakis.bsky.social (and @zeyiyang.bsky.social!) has been the privilege of my career and this newsletter is already so fantastic. Read! Subscribe: www.wired.com/story/china-...

Thrilled about the launch of Made in China, an indispensable weekly newsletter from @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social. Sign up and learn a little something! www.wired.com/story/china-...

One of the highlights of my career has been reporting on China & working closely with @zeyiyang.bsky.social. So I’m really excited to share that we’re launching a new newsletter together for @wired.com. It's called "Made in China." You can sign up for it here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

Oh, wow. I just know this will be good.

man it’s been terrifying to see some of the china reporting over the years but @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @zeyiyang.bsky.social actually do it with nuance and expertise. sign up for “made in china” now

One of the highlights of my career has been reporting on China & working closely with @zeyiyang.bsky.social. So I’m really excited to share that we’re launching a new newsletter together for @wired.com. It's called "Made in China." You can sign up for it here: www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

Smashing "subscribe" so hard on the new MADE IN CHINA newsletter by @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @zeyiyang.bsky.social that I nearly threw up www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

NEW from me: after EPA announced it would officially do away with its scientific research arm Friday, officials at the Office of Research and Development had few answers for employees on a Monday call about how many of them will be reassigned to other offices—and how many will lose their jobs

SCOOP: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been one of the loudest cheerleaders for Trump's tariffs. But his former investment bank is offering clients a way to bet they won’t survive in court. new from me & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cantor...

Trump's Commerce Secretary loves tariffs. His former investment firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, is letting clients essentially bet that the tariffs will be struck down in court, per a letter obtained by WIRED. Scoop w/ @lmatsakis.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/cantor...

NEW: A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in court. scoop from @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:

NEW by @lmatsakis.bsky.social: Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is betting that Trump’s tariff bills will be struck down in court. The company is buying the rights to potential tariff refunds. www.wired.com/story/cantor...

SCOOP: @zeyiyang.bsky.social identified 10 local governments in China that are offering discounts to consumers who choose cars running Huawei software. It’s not always clear whether the government, Huawei, or third-party vendors are paying for them www.wired.com/story/huawei...

SCOOP: WIRED identified 10 local governments in China that are offering discounts to consumers who choose cars running Huawei software. It’s not always clear who is footing the bill.

New: Since January, dozens of companies have been mentioning deportations in SEC filings, saying they risk causing labor shortages and a recession. This is very unusual. For reference, between June 2020 and Jan. 2025, just 6 filings mentioned deportations: www.wired.com/story/compan...

Good piece on the new AI Now report from WIRED's @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/report...

NEW: The self-owns are aplenty. @willknight.bsky.social, @laurengoode.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, and @lmatsakis.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/trump-...