WSJ: Energy Department shifts to lab-leak lean; FBI's Wray confirms lab-incident assessment

The Wall Street Journal reported that a classified Department of Energy update had shifted to a 'low confidence' judgment that the pandemic most likely began with a laboratory leak; days later FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly confirmed the FBI's 'moderate confidence' lab-incident assessment. Coverage noted the intelligence community remained divided — four agencies plus a NIC panel leaned natural origin — and that both assessments were low/moderate confidence.