Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅
@zeyiyang.bsky.social
🖊 Writing about China and Technology for WIRED. Reporting on everything because everything is computer. ✉️ zeyi_yang[AT]wired.com 💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
NEW: I’m living in the dystopian future, so you don’t have to ✨
I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.
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NEW: Madison Square Garden's sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners recently made a major exception -- for Taylor Swift. Scoop from @noahshachtman.bsky.social. Free for everyone to read, because James Dolan doesn't want you to:
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.
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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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I don’t know how to convince anyone of this, but the hundreds or thousands of words many publications run below the headline aren’t decorative. Often they contain nuance that doesn’t fit into ten words.
With the FDA reconsidering regulations on peptides, telehealth companies see an opportunity that could be even bigger than the compounded GLP-1 business. From @knibbs.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/fda-pe...
The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun
The FDA could decide whether to loosen rules around peptide production this week. Some telehealth players are already seeing dollar signs.
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If you're a current or former employee at CDC or FDA in a food safety role, I'm interested in speaking with you for a story for @wired.com. You can reach me securely at emullin.06 on Signal.
Officials found that AliExpress not only failed to staff teams dedicated to removing counterfeit and dangerous items from the platform, but it also made it easy for bad actors to evade detection.
AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes
Online retailer AliExpress says it's shocked by largest DSA fine yet.
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An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.” www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high...
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Sorry - that is 100,000 (one hundred thousand)
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589.bsky.social · 4w agoSpaceX have filed for a 100,00 satellite "Gen3 NGSO" system. Presumably Starlink Gen3, but they don't call it that. The sats are 2000-2500 kg, area 300 to 400 sq m. Orbits 320-480 km at various inclinations. Have added to my page at www.planet4589.org/space/con/co...
I have been using Apple Map with navigation voice set in Mandarin in the past few weeks. Siri could not pronounce numbers in Mandarin right lol. It'd say Route 21 as something like "ao-yao," which has become a running joke in my family.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4w agoThe new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.
I had wanted to read a drone show story for years. This one by Sheon Han, about the crossover of drone shows and religious zeal, is so fascinating www.wired.com/story/i-foun...
I Found Jesus at a Drone Show
Drone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.
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Despite Anthropic's ever-escalating measures to block Chinese users, people still think Claude is best and keep trying to access via VPN, "transfer station," and illicit accounts and IDs bought off Telegram. Newsletter this week on Anthropic & China's cat-and-mouse game w/ @mattburgess1.bsky.social
How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions
As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.
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Sources tell me there’s a post circulating around Meta in which a worker has created a mock SEV, but instead of it being about a software outage, it’s about Meta’s internal morale…
Today the Court only issued a decision in case number 4: Blanche v. Lau. A 6-3 decision declares that green card holders returning from trips abroad may be deemed "applicants for admission" in some situations, despite their permanent resident status, via a rapid decision by a frontline CBP official.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.There are four immigration cases left to decide: two "major," two "minor." 1. Birthright citizenship 2. Temporary Protected Status 3. Whether asylum seekers can be turned away at land ports of entry 4. A complex removability question for some green card holders with convictions.
In 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.
During a meeting this week open to all employees at Instagram, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox addressed the “difficult” and “brutal” environment created by the “insanity of this company” in the past few months www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
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In 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.
Mr. Mayor, you told the public you were aware of @wired.com's story about Dolan's outrageous security apparatus but hadn't read it. LMK if you need a free link! The tax benefits he gets alone from what is space that all New Yorkers feel is partly theirs... www.wired.com/story/madiso...
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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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...
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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NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
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Premiering tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival, TikTok Never Dies is a documentary that chronicles the last 6 years of the app ban drama in the US. It’s essentially a post mortem, asking viewers to relive the endless drama & decide whether it’s worth it. Here’s my convo with the filmmaker Hao Wu.
The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.
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I talked to Zhou Yong, founder of the leading Chinese humanoid robotic hand maker LinkerBot 灵心巧手. It shipped 10k hands in 2025 for as low as $600 each. Zhou predicts that in the future, a humanoid robot will cost less than a smartphone and eventually replace every worker.
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
LinkerBot makes dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600. It wants to become the standard for humanoids and automated factories—and eventually replace human labor altogether.
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i asked @zeyiyang.bsky.social about the Chinese version of ChatGPT's favorite phrase ...and what Chinese speakers think about it
laughed out so many times reading this story. They pay you only $0.55 for recording a five-minute video!!
Reece@thiccreese.bsky.social · 2mo agoMY FIRST “BIG STORY” FOR WIRED!! Spent a week with a camera strapped to my forehead, training robots how to do chores. “Teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow.” www.wired.com/story/househ...
NEW: My unhinged @wired.com colleagues turned our latest digital issue about AI into a mandatory AI retraining course for employees who hate AI everywhere: www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...
Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.
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Anthropic employs at least four philosophers. Google DeepMind employs at least TEN. When journalism fully implodes, at least my B.A. in philosophy will be put to good use. (Love this story from @joelkhalili.bsky.social about the murky motives of AI companies and their Aristotles)
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?
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@makenakelly.bsky.social SCOOP: Palantir employees voiced their discomfort about how their work was supporting ICE, so the company put together a hackathon for them to "fix" the problem in the form of new tools Spoiler: the company still has billions in DHS contracts www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.
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exciting news! truly living the dream—Wired is launching a book club this summer, hosted by ME! more details to come, and sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/b...
