A Virginia startup calling itself Operation Bluebird announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter” and “tweet” since X has allegedly abandoned them.“The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.’s products, services, and marketing, effectively abandoning the storied brand, with no intention to resume use of the mark,” the petition states. “The TWITTER bird was grounded.”If successful, two leaders of the group tell Ars, Operation Bluebird would launch a social network under the name Twitter.new,…
Looking for Tuesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:If you’re ready to feel bad about yourself, here’s a Strands about a lot of achievements you’ll never have. How To Play StrandsThe New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in…
The Trump administration may think regulation is crippling the AI industry, but one of the industry’s biggest players doesn’t agree.At WIRED’s Big Interview event on Thursday, Anthropic president and cofounder Daniela Amodei told WIRED editor at large Steven Levy that even though Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, may…
A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge of plodding, and arm movements bordered on sluggish and awkward. But just this weekend, we…
My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its parent, embryonic programmers form ineradicable attachments to the patterns and quiddities of their first formative language.For…
A company with $20 billion in annual revenue can’t commit $1.4 trillion to capital infrastructure. It’s simple math: by the end of 2026, market pressure is likely to push OpenAI toward scaling back its record-setting AI data center buildout.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is “looking at commitments of about $1.4 trillion…
The alarm hasn’t yet reached the general public, but tension is beginning to build in the corridors of the aerospace industry, in microchip laboratories, and in government offices. For months, an element almost invisible to the world—yttrium—has become the silent center of a new global dispute. Supplies are thinning, prices…
Retro handheld gaming continues its renaissance, as we’ve got a fresh and delightful new Game Boy Color RPG to look forward to early next year in the form of Gumball in Trick-or-Treat Land. This family-friendly adventure from developer Exquisite Laundry Pet and publisher Mega Cat Studios will officially launch on…
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday.Four members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice tell WIRED…
Friday is here at long last. It’s the first Friday of December. In my hometown, First Friday is a big deal. There’s an art walk, live music. Local retailers will often have free beverages for shoppers (sometimes boozy, but in these chillier times it can be hot cocoa). It’s a…
You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data centers, and agents meant to keep enterprise customers locked inside its ecosystem. The company believes these offerings will give it…
Twitch “costume play” queen Emily “Emiru” Schunk has been playing dress-up since she was young. Today, the hobby has made her one of the most followed women on Twitch, with 2 million fans on the platform (she has another 5 million followers across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X). Schunk started…
It’s Wordle Wednesday which means I have another riddle for you to solve. Every week we spice things up on Wednesdays with an extra riddle, brain-teaser or logic puzzle before solving the Wordle. Here’s today’s:I’m surrounded by water, but I never drink. I can swim for miles, but I never…
“It’s a PR campaign, obviously,” claims Joshua Naftalis, a former prosecutor, now a partner at law firm Pallas Partners. “It’s a no-stone-left-unturned strategy.”To date, Bankman-Fried has not filed a formal pardon application, a White House spokesperson tells WIRED. “We do not discuss speculation about sensitive issues, such as pardons, on-record,”…
Earlier this year, a Peter Diamandis report found about 100 companies working on humanoid robots globally. A few short months later, there are 150 just in China. In fact, the humanoid robot hype is getting so potentially overheated that China’s economic planning agency is warning its robotics sector that too…
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A glorious, wintry Sunday is upon us. Snow, rain, snow again. Ice,…
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Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual…
