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U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman denied OpenAI's request to access the confidential terms of a settlement between X, SpaceX AI, and Apple in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. X and SpaceX AI plan to drop their claims against Apple after reaching the deal, but the case continues against OpenAI. Pittman reviewed the agreement privately and concluded it holds no information pertinent to the remaining dispute.
Nitter and its downstream service XCancel, which let users read X posts without logging in or seeing ads, have gone offline following a cease-and-desist from X. Nitter's GitHub repository is now archived and read-only, while XCancel posted a notice saying it must suspend operations due to ongoing legal proceedings.
X Corp and xAI have filed to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Apple in a Texas federal court, with no explanation given for the move and no confirmation of a settlement. The suit had accused Apple of favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT within Apple Intelligence to the detriment of competitors like Grok. Musk's companies say their claims against OpenAI, also named in the original suit, will continue.
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.
Nitter and XCancel, alternative front-ends for viewing X (formerly Twitter) content, have resumed operating after briefly going offline. The shutdown followed cease-and-desist letters X Corp. sent on 24 August 2026 demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and its code repository.
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 startup called Operation Bluebird, founded partly by former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates, has launched a new social network named Twitter.now. The move follows a lawsuit from X last year, which tried to block the company from using the Twitter name, though Operation Bluebird argued X had abandoned trademarks like 'Twitter' and 'Tweet.' The platform is currently in paid testing at $20 for early access and features an AI trust-scoring system called VERA.
X has issued legal takedown notices to the open-source Nitter project and its offshoot XCancel, accusing them of data scraping and rules violations. Both services, which let users read X posts without an account, JavaScript or tracking, have gone offline, with Nitter's maintainer citing legal advice and XCancel posting a notice about the cease-and-desist letter. Nitter's GitHub repository is now archived and read-only.
X Corp issued cease-and-desist letters to the operators of XCancel and Nitter, two third-party front-ends that let users view X (formerly Twitter) content without an account or ads. Both projects have gone offline in response, with their maintainers saying they are pausing all operations and seeking legal counsel before commenting further. Nitter had been running for seven years, while XCancel operated for about two.
XCancel, a third-party viewer that let users browse X (formerly Twitter) content without logging in or dealing with X's interface restrictions, has gone offline. The site's operators posted a notice saying they received a cease-and-desist letter from X Corp on August 24 and halted the service while they seek legal advice.