#wired.com. × ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns. ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.
#Mar.05.2026
#wired.com. × Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps. In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading or updating ByteDance apps designed for the Chinese market.
#Mar.05.2026
#wired.com. × The Xiaomi 17 Ultra—and Its Unique Leica Collab—Is the Ultimate Phone for Photographers. The latest Xiaomi flagship is a beast and comes in a specially co-designed Leica edition that’s picture-perfect.
#Feb.28.2026
#wired.com. × How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves. Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.
#Feb.26.2026
#wired.com. × ‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok. On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising.
#Feb.19.2026
#wired.com. × OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK. As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.
#Feb.13.2026
#wired.com. × A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web. From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.
#Feb.12.2026
#wired.com. × The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Gay Dating App. The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.
#Feb.05.2026
#wired.com. × How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China. Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s flagship devices are packed with impressive features, but Apple is dominating the Chinese smartphone market again—for now.
#Feb.05.2026
#wired.com. × Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China. Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked the Notepadd++ update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version of the popular free source code editor and note-taking app for Windows.
#Feb.04.2026
#wired.com. × Jeffrey Epstein Had a ‘Personal Hacker,’ Informant Claims. Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and more.
#Jan.31.2026
#wired.com. × Nvidia’s Campaign to Sell AI Chips to China Finally Pays Off. Beijing reportedly approved the sale of hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese AI companies—the culmination of a dramatic shift in US tech policy.
#Jan.29.2026
#wired.com. × This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required. Gestala is the latest company to emerge from China’s burgeoning brain-computer interface industry. It plans to access the brain with noninvasive ultrasound technology.
#Jan.29.2026
#wired.com. × What Happens When a Chinese Battery Factory Comes to Town. Chinese firms are building battery plants from Europe to North America, promising jobs while prompting local concerns about the environment, politics, and who really benefits.
#Jan.22.2026
#wired.com. × The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think. WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.
#Jan.21.2026
#wired.com. × She Was Given Up by Her Chinese Parents—and Spent 14 Years Trying to Find a Way Back. More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a remarkable coincidence.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × 23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century. The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All. How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × He Went to Prison for Gene-Editing Babies. Now He’s Planning to Do It Again. Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.”
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese. Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel. Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own. Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession. Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry.
#Jan.20.2026
#wired.com. × Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World. China’s lithium batteries aren’t always “made in China.” Companies like BYD and CATL are building factories on nearly every continent.
#Jan.20.2026
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