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OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

Huge scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social: Sources say the DoD used Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications www.wired.com/story/openai...

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Grammarly's new AI tools necromance famous dead authors, and "humanize" copy to make it sound less robotic. But it also failed to detect obvious plagiarism when @milesklee.bsky.social tried it: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death Sparks Revolt Among Kalshi Customers How Kalshi decided to settle a market tied to Iran’s Supreme Leader prompted anger among traders who felt the rules weren’t clear.

Maybe we shouldn't be doing this:

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”

From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli Strikes As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

NEW: Iranians received a message saying "help is on the way" and promising amnesty if they surrender via a hacked prayer-timer app called "BadeSaba Calendar." Reporting by @wired.com Middle East: www.wired.com/story/hacked...

US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown.

Here’s the latest on the US/Israeli strikes on Iran. @mattburgess1.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/us-ira...

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

Just learned that @wired.com got nominated for four (!!) National Magazine Awards, including for our "How to Win a Fight" package, with a specific callout for this excellent piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

@laurengoode.bsky.social on the other Meta trial underway right now

www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.

Some detainees didn't know they were at Guantanamo—until a public health worker told them. Other nurses, doctors, etc., are quitting rather than participating in Trump's immigration camps www.wired.com/story/public...

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.

Loyalty is dead www.wired.com/story/model-...

The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.

"These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century."

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.

Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.

🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads Users of Meta's social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

"I think it's no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity."

Scoop from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

A teacher starting the day with a whistle. Two people taken by ICE, one with the car door window smashed in even though the door was open. A postal worker's dark new work realities. An empty restaurant but booming delivery. Just some of what we heard from Minneapolis www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

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.

The POWER OF CRYSTALS (and an army of 24/7 livestreamers raised by a local Party secretary) turned a county in eastern China into a glittering hub of global trade, by @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Rachel Zheng

www.wired.com/story/china-...

Really proud to have played a small part in this incredible package. @wired.com is at the top of its game RN.

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.

Beyond excited to have @wired.com's new magazine entirely dedicated to one of the biggest issues in our lives: how to understand China's rise and rise and rise.

Humanoid robots, EV batteries, cleansing crystals, AI boyfriends, gene-editing... Something made in China is already changing your life.

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.

TONS more stories here: www.wired.com/china-issue/

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.”

He Jiankui—the scientist who went to prison in China for making gene-edited babies—talked to @emilymullin.bsky.social about how he thinks some Silicon Valley billionaires are conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment”

www.wired.com/story/china-...

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?

In the US, about 16 companies are trying to build humanoid robots. In China, the number is more than 200.

@willknight.bsky.social went to see some of them in action (and declined the offer to punch a robot)

www.wired.com/story/china-...

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.

DeepSeek was just the beginning. @yilingliu95.bsky.social took a look at what's going on with Chinese AI

www.wired.com/story/china-...

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.

The second-biggest manufacturer of "Made in China" EV batteries is… the United States. @zeyiyang.bsky.social mapped the industry's global footprint

www.wired.com/story/chines...

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.

The POWER OF CRYSTALS (and an army of 24/7 livestreamers raised by a local Party secretary) turned a county in eastern China into a glittering hub of global trade, by @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Rachel Zheng

www.wired.com/story/china-...

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.

"While the president of this country is promising to make America great again as he strips it for parts, Chinese business and political leaders have quietly seized the moment."

@wired.com's 23 ways you're already living in the Chinese century

www.wired.com/china-issue/

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.

🇨🇳 new issue is here! Behold: The China Issue. It hasn't escaped @wired.com's attention that one superpower is surging forward while the other one is trying to annex Greenland. Here are 23 ways that China has become the future www.wired.com/china-issue/

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.

The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China. www.wired.com/china-issue/

Senior Editor, Science WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly:

1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social