The Big Story

WIRED’s most ambitious, future-defining features from our favorite (human) writers.

The Big Story Newsletter: AI Could NeverSign Up Now

Epstein Files

He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life

The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world.

Ryan Biller

Boarded Up

Two Literal Crypto Bros Built a Real Estate Empire. Then the Homes Started to Fall Apart

Joel Khalili

Sprint Mode

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Maxwell Zeff

Special Editions

Things Fall Apart

It's not enough to build things. You also have to tear them down. WIRED commissioned five stories about decommissioning, from EVs and internet cables to supercomputers and space stations.

The WIRED Guide to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games

Ice hockey, curling, influencers—the 2026 Winter Olympics promise to be the most talked about Games in recent memory. WIRED has all the news you need coming out of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

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 Greatest Successes and Worst Flameouts of 2025

From Tesla to AI friends to Big Balls and back, this is our definitive breakdown of everything, and everyone, that conquered the WIRED world this year—and a few that fell from the top.

On Kalshi, people have placed bets on everything from football games to foreign affairs. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gambling—and is actually good for society.

Steven Levy

Fallout Producer Jonathan Nolan on AI: ‘We’re in Such a Frothy Moment’

The Westworld showrunner thinks AI will be good for burgeoning filmmakers, but not for Hollywood blockbusters.

Katie Drummond

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities

Even as Big Tech CEOs curry favor with President Trump, Silicon Valley employees are calling on their bosses to use their influence to help stop his immigration policies.

Katie Drummond

Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page: He ‘Makes Me Insane’

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.

Katie Drummond