Louise Matsakis
@lmatsakis.bsky.social
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🤖 How is AI changing everyday life in China? 🇨🇳 Silvia Lindtner and Selina Xu join Louise Matsakis (@lmatsakis.bsky.social) to discuss how AI is shaping daily life in China and what its rapid development means for society. ▶️ Watch: https://www.ncuscr.org/video/ai-in-china/
Artificial Intelligence in China: Innovation, Regulation, and Daily Life
Silvia Lindtner and Selina Xu join Louise Matsakis to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping life, education, and work in China.
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remember when everyone was like “u should delete Facebook” and somehow now it’s “you should give Facebook all your emails, bank statements, text messages, all of it!” nothing matters 💕
we are living in science fiction times. fascinating reporting from @laurengoode.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
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this is such a China move tbh. A huge problem with China's internet ecosystem is how little of it is on the open web. Innovating can be hard because many services (and data) are locked up in walled gardens
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 4w agothe future is going to look a lot like the past as in, endless gamesmanship as giant corporations attempt to ratfuck each other
SCOOP: Flock Safety announced a voluntary employee separation program on Friday amid growing backlash against the surveillance technology company, according to an internal email shared with WIRED. By @dmehro.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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It was a dream come true to interview some of the smartest people thinking about China’s tech ecosystem at Johns Hopkins SAIS last week. We need for spaces where we can talk about China with the complexity it deserves www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-G...
I wrote about the biggest thing the AI discourse is getting wrong about China: Beijing is not shrugging off the risks of advanced AI, it just doesn't buy the idea that “cooperation” should start with the US deliberately keeping China behind www.wired.com/story/china-...
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown
The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.
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I regret to inform you that Chipotle is working with Palantir lol www.wired.com/story/chipot...
Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks
The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...
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I’m extraordinarily proud to work with @ejdickson.bsky.social & Alana Levinson, who worked on this unflinching account of some of the most horrific abuses committed against women on the internet www.wired.com/story/burner...
I'm moderating at this China tech policy event in DC next week, the lineup is incredible. You should join us if you're in town! Tickets are free and it's open to the public, but there's only a few seats left: www.eventbrite.com/e/getting-te...
Getting Tech Right: U.S. China Policy for a New Era
This public event will examine the full landscape of U.S.-China technological relations.
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I feel spiritually aligned with the dead mouse in @zoeschiffer.bsky.social's scoop we just published. At my core, I am the mouse caught in the trap at the General Services Administration's crumbling office building. if you really think about it, we are all this poor mouse
Mechanical Turk may be shutting down, but AI will always depend on data workers whose knowledge trains and tunes models. AI runs on extracted cultural skills and knowledge, and culture is always changing. Less the end of an era, but the end of an early prototype.
Louise Matsakis@lmatsakis.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
a plug for Wired's Made in China newsletter, written by @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social — I learn something new every week!!! www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About
Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.
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This is starting in a few minutes! Come hang out with me and @lhn.bsky.social on Reddit and ask whatever's on your mind about AI + cybersecurity
Louise Matsakis@lmatsakis.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm doing a Reddit AMA with the GOAT @lhn.bsky.social on Monday answering all your questions about the recent spree of hacks by rogue AI agents. Leave a question for us here: www.reddit.com/r/pwnhub/com...
I'm doing a Reddit AMA with the GOAT @lhn.bsky.social on Monday answering all your questions about the recent spree of hacks by rogue AI agents. Leave a question for us here: www.reddit.com/r/pwnhub/com...
From the pwnhub community on Reddit: We're Louise Matsakis and Lily Hay Newman, reporters at WIRED. Ask us anything about the state of AI security, from models that hack real systems to the biggest ta...
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For MADE IN CHINA this week, @zeyiyang.bsky.social spoke to Yiyang Zhuge, the Chinese podcaster whose interview with Christopher Nolan broke the internet www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About
Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.
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NEW from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social: At least four police departments that Flock featured in YouTube marketing videos have since been accused of misusing the company’s license plate readers www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse
Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company’s tech.
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"Even though Google will take a stake in the new company, it’s a devastating blow to the search giant as it attempts to keep pace in the frantic AI model competition." www.wired.com/story/jeff-d...
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
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NEW: “We now have evidence confirming that both of the two largest AI labs have not only failed to contain their agents, but also failed to detect their jailbreaks in real time.” @lmatsakis.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
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NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
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I have turned my terrible habit into content www.wired.com/story/made-i...
Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine
Big Tobacco studied nicotine analogs like 6-methyl-nicotine for decades but never marketed them. Now, Chinese vape makers are using them to sidestep US regulations.
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"In many ways, the open versus closed debate is more entangled with the US versus China debate than ever before." really insightful piece about the hysteria over Kimi K3 from @zeyiyang.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chinas...
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
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SCOOP from @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a new group that directly opposes Leading the Future, a pro-AI industry super PAC with $50 million in funding from OpenAI president Greg Brockman & his wife www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.
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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.
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
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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...
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
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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
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅@zeyiyang.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn China, for $30, you can have Dwayne Johnson drive your Tesla. Sounds too cheap to be true? Well, what you’re actually buying is a tiny replica of The Rock's head sitting above the rearview mirror and tricking Tesla into thinking an attentive driver is behind the wheel while FSD is engaged.
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...
A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents
Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.
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