Musk-led group makes $97.4bn bid for ChatGPT
maker OpenAI
Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/10/2025 7:00:54 PM
A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk offered $97.4bn to take over OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The billionaire's attorney, Marc Toberoff, confirmed he submitted the bid for "all assets" of the tech company to its board on Monday. The offer is the latest twist in a longstanding battle between Musk, the world's richest man and right hand to US President Donald Trump, and Open AI chief executive Sam Altman over the future of the start-up at the centre of the AI boom. In response to the bid, Altman posted on Musk's social media platform X: "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want."
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Department of Education Urges NCAA to
Restore to Female Athletes the Records
Stolen by Men 10 replies
Restore to Female Athletes the Records
Stolen by Men 10 replies
The Department of Education on Tuesday urged the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a counterpart organization overseeing high school sports to restore to female athletes various records, titles, awards, and recognitions that were stolen by men during the Biden administration.
The Education Department’s general counsel sent a letter to the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations asking them to “strip” the accolades “wrongfully credited to the biological males who unfairly competed against girls and women in The department said the request is “entirely consistent” with the NCAA’s policy change barring men from competing in women’s sports.athletics,” according to a press release.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State leaders gathered Tuesday afternoon to push for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island.
Gun violence advocates highlighted tragedies like Parkland and Sandy Hook in their push for the ban.
Governor Dan McKee said he was trying to push it through as part of the state budget this time, even as legislators bring it up the traditional way again in the General Assembly.
“We were all elected to govern, and the number one job of elected officials in the United States of America is to provide for public safety,” Rep. Jason Knight (D-Dist. 67 Barrington, Warren) said.
“Whatever else we’re here to do, that’s job one, we’re here to protect,”
Impeach Elon Musk?
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DOGE has Democrats absolutely terrified, as well it should, for reasons enumerated many times on this website. DOGE has uncovered the biggest money laundering operation in human history, and he is just getting started. Aside from filing lawsuits and restraining orders, most of which will be delaying tactics instead of killer shots, the best they can do is throw as much * against the wall and hope some of it sticks. That, and call for violence, as many of the more radical Democrats have done. Most of the * that has been thrown has been aimed at Elon Musk and Big Balls, and since nobody cares about
Vice President JD Vance will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, a source familiar with the matter confirms to National Review.
The high-profile meeting comes amid the White House’s continuing efforts to negotiate an end to the country’s three-year war with Russia and will take place days after Vance made his international debut in a speech Tuesday before the Global AI Action Summit in Paris, co-hosted by France and India.
“The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep that,” Vance said in his remarks, which also urged world leaders against overregulation and political bias
Say, remember when people kept telling conservatives that the culture war had already been lost? Good times, good times.
In yet another advance for equality over "equity," another corporate giant has hit reverse on so-called "Diversity Equity Inclusion" policies. Goldman Sachs, perhaps one of the most politically connected firms in the US, told Bloomberg News that it would abandon its previous policy demanding "board diversity" for initial public offerings (IPOs):
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is abandoning a significant pledge it made to refuse initial public offering business with companies that had all White, male boards.
Wall Street’s leading investment bank had a policy that it would only take a company public
Zelensky floats giving up Ukraine-held
Kursk in territory swap with Putin during
peace negotiations 4 replies
Kursk in territory swap with Putin during
peace negotiations 4 replies
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly suggested for the first time that Kyiv will give up its battlefield gains in Russia’s Kursk region in exchange for concessions from the Kremlin.
“We will swap one territory for another,” the 47-year-old told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday.
“I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority.” The Ukrainian president has previously suggested that the “hot stage” of the almost three-year-old war could end if Ukraine becomes a NATO member or regains nuclear arms — even if Kyiv doesn’t regain all of its territories.
Ukraine caught Russia off-guard this past August
WSJ: Dems In Disarray! No, Really!
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"Democrats in Disarray" has the sound of a handy media meme, somewhat akin to "Republicans in Retreat," and perhaps just as reliable. Mainstream media outlets used the latter quite a bit in 2009 and 2010, just before Republicans scored their biggest midterm win in a century and reset state-level legislatures for a generation. Beware the meme, dudes.
In this case, though, the Wall Street Journal could be on more solid ground with the former. Today, the WSJ argues that not only are Democrats clearly not connecting with voters, they aren't even connecting much with each other. Failure in this case has a thousand fathers, contra to conventional
Following Democratic talking points going out is like cleaning a grease splatter off the stove. There's always a single origin and then an inevitable, clearly defined spread pattern that tells you you have identified their weekly chosen term for demonization.
It has to be snappy and short. Much like the children with their drums, chants, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debts do every time they highlight their first-class university educations by banging away and following their designated super genius, leading them in some version of:
MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump’s actions have not caused a “constitutional crisis.”
Cevallos said, “I think we need to be careful with the term constitutional crisis because, as I define it, that would be a situation where the constitution doesn’t have an answer and there is a pressing conflict. The flurry of executive orders, the chaos, that I think doesn’t get us to crisis yet. It is irritating for the courts, it is challenging. It could lead to a serious problem if, as you said, they become too congested with dealing with these orders.”
He continued, “The crisis occurs
Democrats are prepared to shut down the federal government during next month’s spending fight after becoming enraged over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) financial audit of government spending.
The Democrats’ tactic puts them into a precarious position of supporting waste, fraud, and abuse, three items DOGE is tasked with cutting.
“I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And for us to be able to support government funding in that way only for them to turn it around, to dismantle the government.
The Walt Disney Company will be reportedly dropping two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs due to pressure from investors.
According to the conglomerate’s latest SEC filing, Disney will be dropping its “Reimagine Tomorrow” program from its 2024 SEC 10-K report’s DEI section.
“The program was mentioned in the 2023 report, which defines the program as ‘the Company’s digital destination for amplifying underrepresented voices and features some of Disney’s DE&I commitments and actions,'” noted Fox Business.
FIRST ON FOX: More than 680,000 law enforcement personnel have urged the Senate to confirm President Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, as quickly as possible – a show of support that comes as Democrats on the panel have moved to delay his confirmation ahead of a planned vote this Thursday. The total number of supporters from law enforcement agencies was shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, and includes state, local and federal backers from groups including the National Sheriffs’ Association, the National Police Association and more than 370,00 members of the national Fraternal Order of Police, which announced their support for Patel Monday
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Elon Musk and his adorable son, X, traveled to the White House on Tuesday to meet with President Trump in the Oval Office.
President Trump signed a new executive order mandating federal agencies work with DOGE.
Elon Musk said DOGE will begin investigating federal government workers who have managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars.
“We do find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who who have essentially a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars,
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to restore the gender ideology webpages it deleted.
US District Judge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered Trump to restore the pages by midnight tonight.
Last month, President Trump scrubbed public health websites of all things related to “gender ideology.”
A group dubbed Doctors For America sued the Office of Personal Management and numerous government agencies, claiming the removal could prevent doctors from helping patients.
Interference in another country's internal affairs?
Sure, if you're the Vatican, or more specifically, the Vatican's big umbrella NGO of NGOs known as Caritas, whose U.S. arms include Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services.
According to the Associated Press:
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican's charity said Monday that U.S. plans to gut USAID were “reckless” and could kill millions, while Pope Francis’ point man on development urged the Trump administration to remember Christian principles about caring for others.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit, is one of the cardinals most closely associated with Francis’ pontificate and heads the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment, the church’s Caritas Internationalis charity and development.
Will it help stave off a potential Armageddon?
NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace for deep impact.
Dubbed 2024 YR4, the building-sized space rock reportedly has a 1-in-43 chance of slamming into Earth in 2032 — up from about 1%, the Independent reported.
The asteroid was discovered by NASA in December and is reportedly at the top of NASA’s watch list when it comes to hazards from beyond. (Photo) With this “time-critical” threat potentially on our doorstep, the space agency has enlisted the aid of the James Webb telescope to study 2024 YR4 and gauge how much
Chelsea Clinton claims that 'misinformation' has been weaponized against her after claims she was gifted $84million from the under fire United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have attempted to shut down the embattled government agency tasked with humanitarian relief overseas after they agreed the organization was 'beyond repair' and wasting billions. The billionaire 'first buddy' led a civilian review of the federal government with Trump's go-ahead and decided this week to shut down the agency.
For decades, car-making has been the jewel in Germany's industrial crown, a powerful symbol of the country's famous post-war economic miracle. Its "Big Three" brands, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, have long been praised for their performance, innovation and precision engineering. But today, the German motor industry is struggling. How can it get back on the road to recovery? When you arrive by train in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, the first thing you see is the Volkswagen factory. Its huge facade, emblazoned with a giant VW logo and flanked by four tall chimneys, dominates one bank of the canal that runs through the city.
A group is planning a nationwide economic blackout as a response to the rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives sparked by the federal government. Why It Matters When President Donald Trump reentered office last month, one of his first calls to action was to end several of the DEI initiatives in the federal government. He mandated in an executive order that funds could be frozen for companies that do not comply. He also outlawed any messaging that promotes inclusion-based language. The orders have caused PBS to close its DEI office, while major companies like Amazon, Target and Google
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faced widespread mockery after launching a tipline to "expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety." On Monday, Schumer shared a link calling on "whistleblowers" to report violations, arguing they "are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable." The categories whistleblowers can report include "retaliation," "wasteful spending," "fraud," "criminal activity," and "other."
"Today, I’m calling on our brave public servants," the Senate Minority Leader wrote as he shared the tipline form on X.
We've been seeing a pretty amazing move to make over the government over the last three weeks since President Donald Trump has taken office.[Snip] Now, there's a follow-up action in Congress with the House Oversight Committee naming Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to head the new "Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets." Luna announced that they would be looking into UFOs, the Jeffrey Epstein client list, JFK, RFK, and MLK, as well as the origins of COVID-19 and the 9/11 files.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State leaders gathered Tuesday afternoon to push for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island.
Gun violence advocates highlighted tragedies like Parkland and Sandy Hook in their push for the ban.
Governor Dan McKee said he was trying to push it through as part of the state budget this time, even as legislators bring it up the traditional way again in the General Assembly.
“We were all elected to govern, and the number one job of elected officials in the United States of America is to provide for public safety,” Rep. Jason Knight (D-Dist. 67 Barrington, Warren) said.
“Whatever else we’re here to do, that’s job one, we’re here to protect,”
President Donald Trump is waging war against former President Joe Biden’s green energy regulations on Americans’ household appliances.
Trump made the announcement in a social media post at 5:57 a.m. on Tuesday and said he was instructing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to oversee the matter, Fox News reported. The president wrote in his post:
I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS,
It’s a Croc block!
Dozens of schools in at least 20 states across the U.S. have banned students from wearing Crocs to class.
School administrators claim students are more likely to struggle to walk when wearing the shoes — which could be deadly in an emergency. (Photo) “It’s actually a safety hazard,” Stoney Pritchett, principal of Bessemer City High School in Alabama, told TODAY. “Man, they can twist the knees, twist the ankles, things like that.”