This digest compiles the latest from Wired.
Today’s Wired Roundup
Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page: He ‘Makes Me Insane’
20 Jan 2026, 11:30 am by Katie Drummond
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about maintaining neutrality in an online ecosystem increasingly hostile to facts.
She Was Given Up by Her Chinese Parents—and Spent 14 Years Trying to Find a Way Back
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Olivia Cheng
More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a remarkable coincidence.
Chinese EV Batteries Are Eating the World
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Zeyi Yang
China’s lithium batteries aren’t always “made in China.” Companies like BYD and CATL are building factories on nearly every continent.
He Went to Prison for Gene-Editing Babies. Now He’s Planning to Do It Again
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Emily Mullin
Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.”
How China’s ‘Crystal Capital’ Cornered the Market on a Western Obsession
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Louise Matsakis, Rachel Zheng
Decades ago, Donghai was a backwater county. Today, thanks to an army of 24/7 livestreamers, it orchestrates a multibillion-dollar global industry.
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.
Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Yi-Ling Liu
How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Will Knight
Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?
You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Afra Wang
Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise.
China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Johanna Costigan
Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.
China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World
20 Jan 2026, 11:00 am by Jeremy Wallace
A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.
End of today’s Wired roundup.
