‘All Hell Is Going To Break Out’ in Israel
Trump talks tough on Israel/Hamas: If the terrorist group Hamas does not release all remaining Israeli hostages taken on October 7, 2023, by “12 o’clock on Saturday,” said President Donald Trump yesterday, the ceasefire agreement between the two parties should be rendered invalid. “All hell is going to break out,” added Trump.
Last week, when Trump fantasized about redeveloping the battered Gaza Strip into the “riviera of the Middle East” (featuring some Trump hotels) and moving Gazans to neighboring Jordan and Egypt while the, uh, infrastructure project takes place, it seemed like he was mostly just engaging in signature Trump bluster. But yesterday, he threatened to cut all U.S. aid to both Jordan and Egypt if they don’t comply; interestingly, today he meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan.
“I do think he’ll take, and I think other countries will take also,” Trump said of Abdullah. “They have good hearts.”
As all this was happening, Hamas “announced it would stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice over what the Palestinian militant group called Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, raising the risk of reigniting the conflict,” reports Reuters. “Hamas has accused Israel of dragging its feet on allowing aid into Gaza, one of the conditions of the first phase of the agreement, a charge Israel has rejected as untrue. In turn, Israel has accused Hamas of not respecting the order in which the hostages were to be released and of orchestrating abusive public displays before large crowds when they have been handed over to the Red Cross.”
Musk’s latest scheme: “A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, raising the stakes in his battle with Sam Altman over the company behind ChatGPT,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “The unsolicited offer adds a complication to Altman’s carefully laid plans for OpenAI’s future, including converting it to a for-profit company and spending up to $500 billion on AI infrastructure through a joint venture called Stargate. He and Musk are already fighting in court over the direction of OpenAI.”
“It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,” said Musk, via a statement from his lawyer. “We will make sure that happens.”
Never one to simply talk through lawyers, Musk also tweeted this:
Scam Altman
pic.twitter.com/j9EXIqBZ8u— Harry Bōlz (@elonmusk) February 10, 2025
For those just tuning in: OpenAI was originally structured as a nonprofit claiming that its sole goal was “to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” At some unclear point, this changed; Altman is now pursuing structuring it as a for-profit. At various points, there have been high-drama exoduses of senior OpenAI employees; a group of engineers left to start Anthropic, which they claim is actually interested in AI safety above all. Co-founder/former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and top researc
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