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How China built a chip industry, and why it’s still not enough

At a conference at Tsinghua University in Beijing in January, a group of the most influential executives and founders working in artificial intelligence...

OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK

On June 6, 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was...

A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web

Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI...

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think

The US and China are, by many measures, archrivals in the field of artificial intelligence, with companies racing to outdo each other on...

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was...

The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On

Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though...

WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, that was another executive order that came out. I think it was literally titled something around eliminating data silos. Another...

Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds

I don’t want to admit it, but I did spend a lot of money online this holiday shopping season. And unsurprisingly, some of...

Bitcoin mining in China rebounds, defying 2021 ban

Bitcoin mining is quietly staging a comeback in China despite being banned four years ago, as individual and corporate miners exploit cheap electricity...

Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots

The real question is how effectively AgiBot’s algorithms can teach its robots new tricks. Using reinforcement learning to teach a robot tasks that...

The Man Who Makes AI Slop by Hand

Mu is not the only comedian who has tried to imitate the style of AI-generated videos, but he really nails all of the...

China launches Pakistan’s remote sensing satellite along with two of its own

China on Sunday launched a Pakistani remote sensing satellite along with two of its own onboard a single rocket, further deepening space cooperation...