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The US Department of Justice filed to intervene in X's and Elon Musk's appeal against a €120 million fine the European Commission imposed last December for violating the Digital Services Act. Assistant attorney general Brett Shumate said the Commission had overstepped its authority in targeting an American company, and the case will be heard at the EU's General Court in Luxembourg.
WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast, hosted by Zoë Schiffer with senior writer Ej Dickson, examines a loosely organized network of anonymous X accounts dubbed the 'burnerverse' that circulate explicit, nonconsensual videos of young women. The episode centers on University of Florida student Maddie Kowalski, who discovered burner accounts had spread sexually explicit videos of her that were filmed and shared without her consent, after she was targeted on platforms including Yik Yak.
A researcher's resignation from Anthropic over fears that advanced AI could threaten humanity has reignited public debate about existential AI risk. His social media post drew massive attention, prompting Anthropic's alignment lead to publicly estimate a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within a decade, and CEO Dario Amodei to call for slower AI development. Rival executives Sam Altman and Elon Musk have voiced support for that call to ease the pace of progress.
A developer launched a community platform where engineers can document and share the AI tools, agents, and workflows they use for building software. The site was created out of frustration with scattered, fragmented glimpses of other developers' AI setups seen on social media like Twitter/X. The creator plans to keep his own profile updated with an AI agent and hopes others will contribute their setups too.
A federal court rejected claims by rival startup Project Bluebird that X Corp. had abandoned the TWITTER, TWEET and Bird Logo trademarks after Elon Musk rebranded the platform. Project Bluebird had filed intent-to-use applications for TWITTER and TWEET and rebranded its own app from twitter.new to tweet.app following the ruling. The court pointed to X's Apple App Store listing, which still describes the app as 'formerly known as Twitter,' as evidence of continued bona fide trademark use.
A federal judge ruled that startup Operation Bluebird cannot use the 'Twitter' name for its new social platform, citing likely trademark confusion with X Corp. However, the same ruling found the company can likely use the word 'tweet' and the bird logo, since X appears to have abandoned both marks. The startup has since rebranded its waitlist platform from Twitter.now to Tweet.app, which already has over 172,000 signups paying to reserve handles.
A federal judge issued a partial preliminary injunction in the trademark fight between Elon Musk's X Corp. and Operation Bluebird, ruling that X can keep using the 'Twitter' name for now since it still references it in places like its App Store listing. However, the judge found X failed to prove it still actively uses 'tweet' or the bird logo, allowing Bluebird to keep those elements. In response, Bluebird said it will rebrand its upcoming platform from Twitter.new to Tweet.app.
A federal judge in Delaware ruled that startup Operation Bluebird cannot use the name 'Twitter' for its new social network, siding with Elon Musk's X on that trademark. But the judge also found X likely abandoned rights to the word 'tweet' and the bluebird logo, letting the startup relaunch its site as Tweet.app and open to users, drawing over 172,000 handle requests before launch.
A federal court granted Elon Musk's X a preliminary injunction stopping a startup called Operation Bluebird from launching a new app under the Twitter name. Chief Judge Colm Connolly found X likely to prevail on trademark infringement claims, largely because X's own App Store listing still describes itself as 'formerly known as Twitter,' showing the company hasn't abandoned the brand.
Thousands of X (formerly Twitter) users reported that Grok, the platform's AI chatbot, stopped working starting around 9:00 AM ET, according to Downdetector data. Affected users received an error message stating the model was unavailable and prompting them to try a different one. X has not issued any official statement addressing the outage.
A group calling itself Operation Bluebird has launched Twitter.now, a social platform that resurrects the old Twitter name and bird logo with some modifications. The founders argue that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the Twitter brand when he renamed the service X, leaving the identity open to reclaim.
Operation Bluebird, led by former Twitter legal counsel Stephen Coates, has launched a new social platform at Twitter.now featuring a blue design and bird logo reminiscent of the original Twitter. The launch comes even as a federal judge in Delaware has yet to rule on Elon Musk's request for an injunction in his trademark lawsuit against the group. Coates argues that Musk abandoned the Twitter name and bird logo when he rebranded the company to X in 2022.