Greg Williams

We are proud to announce the finalists for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Congratulations all, and huge thanks to our panel @gregwilliams718.bsky.social (Chair), Nick Davies, @meenakshirv.bsky.social & @sayeedawarsi.bsky.social. Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

More great work from @tbij.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Ford says the new method of manufacturing will be 40 percent faster than the existing process and will need 20 percent less parts. www.wired.com/story/fords-...

Could the psychedelic world’s new Trumpworld allies be the ones who finally help it achieve its goal? www.wired.com/story/psyche...

Zuckerberg has quietly expanded his footprint on Hawaii with a massive new land purchase. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

According to NASA, the annual rate of increase in global sea levels has doubled since 1993. Sadly, we're going to see more of this. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes: - Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters - Livestreams to connect with our journalists - A new commenting experience + more It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵

When Ross Ulbricht received a mystery $31 million bitcoin donation Saturday, some guessed he was sending himself old Silk Road profits. Crypto tracers now tell me they suspect a much stranger source for the money: a vendor from the defunct dark web market AlphaBay. www.wired.com/story/ross-u...

Export control constraints don't appear to be damaging the ability of Chinese AI labs to produce frontier models. restofworld.org/2025/china-a...

8) And this one is important. For all the talk about the powerful pro-Trump media ecosystem, the share of Americans who have heard negative business news coverage of the government has exploded. Evidently even the podcast bros can’t distract Americans from the realities of the stock market.

Distract yourself from the global market meltdown with this terrific @wired.com piece from @amitkatwala.bsky.social about another potential form of global meltdown. www.wired.com/story/q-day-...

Have heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of this, but here it is backed up by data. www.axios.com/2025/04/04/f...

There are now only two occasions in recent financial history where the S&P 500 sold off more sharply in two days than it has since the US tariff announcements - the peak of Covid panic in March 2020, and a cluster of occasions during the very worst moments of the global financial crisis in 2008

Great piece from @joelkhalili.bsky.social on his attempt to win a crypto Hunger Games. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

Putting this right at the tip top of my list of 2025 stories I'm extremely jealous of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

AI is stealing the headlines, but the quantum arms race is no less frantic and high-stakes, by @amitkatwala.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/q-day-...

It’s Sunday. You deserve it. www.wired.com/story/the-ar...

some big personal news! next week i'm coming on board at @wired.com to cover all things climate, energy, & environment. i'm pinching myself that i get to join this unbelievable team of journalists who are doing absolutely incredible work — i'm so excited to dive in.

Delighted to announce Phare Bio as the winner of the @wired.com Health startup competition! Many congratulations to Dr Akhila Kosaraju and the team who are using generative AI to find novel antibiotics.

Again, hard to overstate what a massive resource WIRED is at this point in history.

So @WIRED is removing paywalls for our reporting based on freedom of information requests. We’re a for-profit media outlet, but we’ve decided to strike a balance between business and public interest. freedom.press/issues/wired...

Nothing helps sales like trying to ban a book. Smooth move. www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Great to bump into my old chum @gregwilliams718.bsky.social, Deputy Global Editorial Director of @wired. Great to bump into my old chum @gregjw1, Deputy Global Editorial Director of @wired.com, at brilliant #wiredhealth brilliant #wiredhealth!

Ready to go at the @wired.com Health event at King’s Place. Some stellar sessions coming: Dame Sally Davies on antimicrobial resistance, Daphne Koller will make an announcement on machine learning and drug discovery, Steve Horvath on biological aging + @reidhoffman.bsky.social on his new AI startup.

A nonsensical threat to: One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.

CEO of News Media Canada Paul Deegan has warned that Trump tariffs between US and Canada threaten news industry because newsprint is imported from Canada while ink heads north from the US www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/paul...

“The Chinese have many advantages, but until recently America had the decisive one — we had more friends around the world. Unfortunately, over the last month and a half, America has smashed a lot of those relationships to smithereens.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically. www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

Really enjoying the reporting from @londoncentric.media London deserves a media outlet worthy of a complex and fascinating global city. At last it has it. So great to see local journalism of this calibre. Kudos to @jim.londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

You know all that great reporting that @wired.com has been doing about DOGE? There’s more… www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The mighty @evrat.bsky.social spent 2 years for @wired.com on this mind-blowing story about the world’s first AI-inflected death cult, whose obsessions over the prospect of a machine superintelligence eventually sent them spiraling into destruction. Worth your time. www.wired.com/story/deliri...

I heard democracy might be in trouble, so I had some ideas about how we should fix it.

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TikTok is now unavailable in the US—and getting around the ban isn't as simple as using a VPN. Here's what you need to know.

🚨 Tiktok went offline in the US last night at 03:30 UTC (10:30pm ET) 🚨 Graphic based on @kentik.bsky.social aggregate traffic stats. #tiktokban

If you'd like to follow what's happening as SCOTUS hears arguments over a possible TikTok ban we have a @wired.com live blog up and running. www.wired.com/live/tiktok-...

"...the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created." TLDR: Meta is now a free-for-all. @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-d...

A reminder that we're staffing up. Come join the team at @wired.com! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

This is the conclusion of a decades-long fight for a more equitable internet – and a harbinger of what may await other consumer protections in the years to come, by @brbarrett.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/net-ne...

BYD and Geely are only just getting started. US tariffs? They’ll diversify in South America and south/east Asia. Spoke to an entrepreneur who advises the German finance minister and the threat to German manufacturers is huge - a challenge to the country’s industrial competitiveness + social fabric.

Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics.

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"Apple has to get AI right. Corporations, after all, are less likely than buildings to stand proud for a century." The peerless @stevenlevy.bsky.social on what Apple Intelligence means for the world's most valuable company (at the moment!) www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Earlier this year, surgeons carried out pig kidney transplants in living people for the first time. www.wired.com/story/a-thir...

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Kash Patel, who has pushed conspiracy theories and helped produce a single featuring the J6 Prison Choir, has proposed investigating the investigators of the failed insurrection.

Excited that tomorrow is @wired.com's Big Interview event. We'll be in conversation with Mira Murati, Brian Chesky, @jensenhuang.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @jaygraber01.bsky.social + many more. Join via livestream if you can't make it in-person! www.wired.com/story/thebig...

The Irish election is another subject that Elon Musk believes he is an expert on and therefore must weigh in. Here he is quoting a far-right bigot who was instrumental in instigating the Dublin Riots a year ago...