Greg Williams
@gregwilliams718.bsky.social
Executive Editor Exponential View. Former Deputy Global Editorial Director, WIRED
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:
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo ago$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
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-...
Ford's Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.
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Could the psychedelic world’s new Trumpworld allies be the ones who finally help it achieve its goal? www.wired.com/story/psyche...
Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back
Abuse allegations and infighting helped kill a campaign to legalize MDMA for medical use. Trumpworld is giving the therapy’s advocates hope for a second shot.
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Zuckerberg has quietly expanded his footprint on Hawaii with a massive new land purchase. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground
Meta’s CEO has become one of the biggest landowners in Hawaii, growing his property’s footprint and erecting new mysterious buildings.
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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...
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
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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...
Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect
Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay.
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Export control constraints don't appear to be damaging the ability of Chinese AI labs to produce frontier models. restofworld.org/2025/china-a...
DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China
Investors believe practical AI applications will fuel the next wave of growth, with startups building on top of DeepSeek’s foundation.
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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-...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
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Have heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of this, but here it is backed up by data. www.axios.com/2025/04/04/f...
Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
Foreign travel into the U.S. tumbled in mid-to-late March compared to the same time last year.
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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...
I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me
I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.
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Putting this right at the tip top of my list of 2025 stories I'm extremely jealous of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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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-...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
wired.com
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.
Greg Williams@gregwilliams718.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Nothing helps sales like trying to ban a book. Smooth move. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.
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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.
Alex Wayne@aawayne.bsky.social · last yr.Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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...
Paul Deegan warns U.S.-Canada trade war threatens local news media on both sides of the border - Editor and Publisher
As tensions rise between the United States and Canada over tariffs, newspapers on both sides of the border are feeling the strain. Paul Deegan, CEO of News Media Canada, joined E&P Reports to discuss ...
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“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...
Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
What happens when a superpower goes rogue.
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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...
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Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last yr.This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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...
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.
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