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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Grade Expectations

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.
Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova
Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
Humiliation Ritual

Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts

Hugo Lowell
Locked Out of the World Cup: A Year Marked by Barriers, Borders, and Broken Access
World Cup 2026

Locked Out of the World Cup: A Year Marked by Barriers, Borders, and Broken Access

Malak Saleh

Inner Loop

The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible

The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.
Hugo Lowell
Donald Trump Is Ready for Fight Night. So Are Donors

Donald Trump Is Ready for Fight Night. So Are Donors

The UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn is the president’s birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza.
Hugo Lowell
Greg Bovino Was the Star at a European Remigration Conference

Greg Bovino Was the Star at a European Remigration Conference

The man who headed Trump’s invasions of US cities joined the US and European far right in Portugal to preach “remigration”—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants.
David Gilbert
Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump's Ballroom Has Turned Toxic

Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump's Ballroom Has Turned Toxic

“Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,” says one Trump aide about the funding melee. The votes, though, may simply not be there.
Hugo Lowell

Policy

YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts

YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts

New research suggests that dozens of monetized YouTube channels are run by people and organizations that the US government has sanctioned for their ties to Tehran.
David Gilbert
The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.
Ali Winston
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit.
Matt Burgess and Vittoria Elliott
An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in At Least 4 Deadly Shootings

An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in At Least 4 Deadly Shootings

David Norman, a former Phoenix police officer who’s described himself as “a fucking savage,” now runs a company that provided training to Homeland Security’s Special Response Teams.
Ali Winston

Disinformation

China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers

China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers

GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
Molly Taft

How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
Gia Chaudry
Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
David Gilbert
Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked

Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked

Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social about Iran echoed a conspiracy theory that has been circulating online for years.
David Gilbert

Extremism

A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots

A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots

After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.
David Gilbert
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
Daniel Boguslaw
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges

The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
Ali Winston
An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’

An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.
Ali Winston

Global Elections

This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms

This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms

WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.
David Gilbert
Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms

Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms

Silicon Valley’s battle against AI regulation is already shaping the next US election cycle.
Maxwell Zeff
The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord

The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord

The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.
Tulsi Rauniyar
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts don't know what to think.
Kim Zetter

Politics News

A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents

A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents

Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.
Lauren Goode, Paresh Dave, and Louise Matsakis
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
Matt Burgess
The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger
Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen

Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda.
David Gilbert

Latest

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS
All together now

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS

Vittoria Elliott
A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts
Big Business

A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts

David Gilbert, Matt Giles, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer
Uncanny Valley: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix
Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix

Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger
The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem
You're Fired

The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem

Molly Taft and Dell Cameron