A great debate A proliferation of Chinese-made AI tools is brewing in Silicon Valley, particularly “open-weight” AI systems that, by some measures, can rival or even surpass some of the best American models. My WIRED colleague Hugo Lowell has written about the Trump administration’s internal debate over how to handle these Chinese models. Among the
Lea Feiger: Yes. In recent days this has come up. You say, “I’ve been listening to them.” It’s like, “Oops, Zoë, your bill is ready.” And I say, “What’s going on there?” Zoe Schiffer: You’ve been listening to them. It’s embarrassing. That’s embarrassing. Lea Feiger: It’s something wild. No, honestly, if it’s making your life
At the beginning of this year, I picked up a rather unfortunate habit: vaping. More specifically, I started smoking flavored vaporizers made in the so-called “Vape Valley” of China and sold throughout the United States. Flavored nicotine vaporizers are largely illegal in the United States, yet convenience stores and tobacconists across the country have generated
A recent exam of hundreds of mobile apps marketed to U.S. military personnel found that more than one in eight contained software created by companies in China, Russia or other foreign nations, raising new concerns that adversary governments could collect data that reveals where service members live, work and deploy. According to researchers at Purdue
while you walk At the XPeng exhibition event in Munich, you are greeted by, I kid you not, a giant wooden Trojan horse. It’s not exactly a subtle message from a Chinese brand announcing the world’s first launch of an electric vehicle, right in the German auto industry’s backyard. It’s hard to believe that XPeng
DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of large language models, is preparing for its IPO debut in 2027, but it could arrive as soon as ind this year as it also seeks to raise about $1.5 billion in new funding at a valuation of about $71 billion, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after the company raised $7