In a court filing, Mr. Musk said he and other investors would pull their $97.4 billion bid if OpenAI withdrew its plan to change its structure.

The company answered the billionaire’s offer in a legal filing, accusing him of hypocrisy.

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money.

When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.

A Chicago children's hospital says it is putting the brakes on so-called "gender care surgeries" after President Donald Trump's executive order.

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The Southern California start-up, which builds flying drones and missiles, is set to raise up to $2.5 billion.

The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would invest up to $40 billion in the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT.

He was among the first backers of Apple Computer and 3Com, earning windfalls, but it was his humaneness that distinguished him from other venture capitalists.

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney.

Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz. Before the killing, he had been an architecture student.

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.

After the search giant welcomed more ads from small rivals like Ask.com, Google ad costs for some nonprofits ballooned.

Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander will be extradited from Miami to New York, where they will remain in federal detention until trial.

There is a two-word phrase that the environmental activists who set many of our federal and state policies around forestry do not seem to know. That phrase is "unintended consequences," and as much of Los Angeles burns this week, those consequences have been deadly. 

These expert officials are supposed to be saving the planet, not making wide, populated swaths of it catch fire, and yet, incredibly, it looks like that is exactly what led to the horrors in California this week.

GOVERNMENT MISMANAGEMENT, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE, IS TO BLAME FOR CALIFORNIA'S DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES

For example, experts have warned for years that federal and state restrictions on controlled burns to mitigate fires are creating a tinderbox, not just in California, but in Canada, as residents of the Northeast U.S. who sucked down wildfire smoke last year learned.

Here is how former California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore puts it, "The nature of the wildfire problem changes a little bit from north to south… In both cases, you have the issue of air quality management districts that are under both federal and state mandate to clean up the air. That makes it difficult to have prescribed burns with the sort of frequency that needs to happen to be able to reduce the fuel load."

In other words, the environmentalist blinkered attitude that smoke is bad for the air, and hence must be stopped at all costs, made the forests vastly more combustible and set the stage for thousands of homes and businesses to burn to the ground.

Likewise, the failure of the water supply in Los Angeles, which led to scenes of fire hydrants running dry that looked like they could have been out of the movie "Chinatown," are the result of green utopianism.

Ninety-five percent of California’s water flows into the Pacific, which the last time I checked, isn’t exactly running out of water itself. So why, you may ask, is this precious resource literally pissed away into the ocean? To protect fish, including the Delta Smelt, the population of which has been on the brink of extinction for years. 

No, I’m serious. Environmental regulations require the state to flush water into the sea after major snowfalls, even while aqueducts and eventually fire trucks grow dry as dead leaves. It is a policy that baffles the sensible mind, but makes sense to environmentalists.

Much like we saw with hysterical COVID activists, these fanatical environmental regulators have no ability to grapple with legitimate competing interests. Once they decide to clean the air, they will damn well clean the air, even if it means burning down the forest, which has the opposite effect of cleaning the air.

It doesn’t matter if people go homeless and neighborhoods turn to cinders, because the environmentalists have their heart in the right place, and are earnestly focused on big, important planetary threats, not a home or two on fire.

These are the same people, mind you, who will blame the entire event, the fire, the wind, everything, on climate change. I'm surprised they haven’t used climate alarmism to somehow explain why Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana while her city burned and refuses to answer questions about it.

The tragedy in California this week has its roots in decades of institutional capture in our universities and regulatory agencies by climate alarmists. The most absurd and sensational claims about climate change are met with gasps and promises of more money in our halls of power.

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That has to change. It is too kind to call environmental regulators myopic. At least myopia offers a narrow range of vision. These people just seem blind, and after their predictions fail to come to fruition, year after year, decade after decade, they just keep making them.

It has been seven years since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assured us the earth only had 12 years left to address the climate. What? Are we down to five now?

Incoming President Donald Trump needs to ensure that everyone involved in the federal climate and environmental policies of his administration is capable of understanding unintended consequences and legitimate competing interests. 

California has made a huge sacrifice at the altar of climate alarmism this week. People’s lives and homes were destroyed in fealty to the all-powerful preservation of the environment. It backfired badly, and if we don’t change course, it will not be the last time this happens. 

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will reimburse California for costs associated with hiring more firefighters and controlling the raging wildfires that have ripped through Southern California. 

News of the Fire Management Assistance Grants trickled in Tuesday, and by the evening the White House put out a statement from President Biden confirming the move. FEMA confirmed the measures on Wednesday, in an announcement laying out some details about the grants. 

The funding will provide federal reimbursements for up to 75% of "eligible firefighting costs" incurred by the state, as California seeks to shore up its firefighting force and put out the wildfires that have killed at least two people and driven thousands from their homes. Eligible costs include expenses for field camps, equipment, materials, supplies and mobilization or demobilization efforts attributed to fighting the fires. 

HUNDREDS OF LA HOMES EXPECTED TO BURN IN WILDFIRES

"My Administration will do everything it can to support the response," Biden said Tuesday, announcing news of the grant. "I am being frequently briefed on the wildfires in west Los Angeles. My team and I are in touch with state and local officials, and I have offered any federal assistance that is needed to help suppress the terrible Pacific Palisades fire."

EX-NFL QUARTERBACK SHOWS MASSIVE SCOPE OF CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: ‘MUCH WORSE THAN PEOPLE THINK’ 

Firefighter shortages in California have been an ongoing problem for several years in California. In advance of the news about FEMA's grant, the Los Angeles Fire Department was compelled to request that all off-duty firefighters in the area volunteer to help. The U.S. Forest Service this summer boosted its staffing levels in California for the first time in five years, but the total number of federal wildland firefighters remains greatly diminished from what it used to be despite the state seeing an uptick in the number and severity of wildfires in recent years, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Meanwhile, in October, the U.S. Forest Service announced an end to prescribed burning to control wildfires as a result of staffing shortages.  

California's decision to end prescribed burns came after Biden's opposition to a bipartisan bill aimed at streamlining the process for implementing forest management projects, like prescribed burns, in California. In a September statement explaining the opposition to the bill, the Biden administration said that certain provisions served to undermine crucial environmental protections.

PLANE PASSENGER REACTS TO LA WILDFIRES: ‘THIS IS PURE DEVASTATION’ 

FEMA's grants aimed at bolstering the state's firefighting force amid the raging wildfires were initiated following requests from California. FEMA indicated that at the time of the requests the wildfires had burned an excess of 700 acres of private and public lands around the Pacific Palisades, San Fernando Valley and Santa Calrita Valley areas.

FEMA added that more than 45,000 homes in the area were being threatened by the fire. 

A spokesperson for the agency told Fox News Digital that its regional office is in constant contact with local authorities in California, and that the agency has also deployed a FEMA liaison officer to the area to help monitor the evolving situation. The spokesperson added the agency is urging residents to listen to local officials and has provided a phone number for them to text if people are in need of safe shelter. 

The financing efforts follow new funding rounds by Elon Musk’s xAI and the market leader, OpenAI, which is now valued at $157 billion.

Everyone from Jamie Dimon to the International Monetary Fund is ringing alarms about the shadowy world of private credit. But the money keeps rolling in.

Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.