Today is Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
It is the 43rd day of the year.
322 days remain.
WHAT’S ON TAP
NOTABLE & NOTEWORTHY: OpenAI’s CEO responds to ELON MUSK’s buyout offer.
An update on VINCE NEIL’s private plane crash and a bombshell report on LIAM PAYNE’s past relationship in SHOWBIZ.
JUSTIN BALDONI spoke about hard times prior to the current “It Ends With Us” legal drama. Details in CASTING CALL.
PRINCE ANDREW joins another curious business venture. Details in ROYALS.
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Firefighters responding to a house fire in the Sacramento area successfully rescued a family of three on Monday, then successfully revived one of two house cats suffering from smoke inhalation.
One of the human residents of the fire also entered the hospital.
A local photojournalist recorded the rescuers feeding oxygen to the feline fire victim. WATCH:
video via @cameraguydave
[via CBS Sacramento]
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FOLLOW UP: After news broke Monday that ELON MUSK was leading a group of investors to acquire OpenAI, a competitor to his own xAI project, OpenAI’s founder has publicly rejected the unsolicited offer.
“no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman quipped, offering one-tenth of Musk’s proposed buyout for OpenAI.
Musk led the acquisition of Twitter-turned-X in 2022 for about $44 BILLION. Since then, he’s incorporated an A.I. chatbot into X, called Grok, using technology developed by Musk’s other A.I. development company, xAI.
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Rocker VINCE NEIL was not onboard his private jet when it crashed at the Scottsdale airport on Monday. His girlfriend, Rain, and her friend, Ashley, were on the aircraft, however.
According to MOTLEY CRUE’s manager, Rain suffered five broken ribs in the incident.
The pilot, unfortunately, did not survive.
A preliminary investigation found the landing gear failed, causing the collision. [via TMZ]
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Months after LIAM PAYNE’s passing, a bombshell report about his relationship with ex-fiance MAYA HENRY has surfaced.
A source told Rolling Stone that Payne allegedly sexted other men while dating Henry from 2018 to 2022, as he “struggled with his sexuality.” The insider also claims that he forced her to get an abortion in 2020, giving her an ultimatum of either having the procedure and staying with him or raising the kid alone. Payne was already dad to son Bear, now 7, at the time.
Henry previously addressed their relationship in her book, “Looking Forward,” telling People Magazine at the time that she put herself in “unsafe and harmful” situations at times, but didn’t “fault [Payne] for his struggles.”
At the time of his passing, Payne was dating influencer KATE CASSIDY, who had joined him in Buenos Aires just days prior to his death. [via Rolling Stone, People]
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JUSTIN BALDONI says he “wasn’t in the best place” prior to the legal drama with “It Ends With Us” co-star BLAKE LIVELY coming to light.
In a new episode of “Gent’s Talk” podcast, which was recorded last November, the actor/director told host SAMIR MOURANI that he needed time to “recover” and “heal” after filming.
The statement was made a month before Lively filed her lawsuit, accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on set. In response, he countersued the actress, her husband RYAN REYNOLDS, and their publicist. [via The Sun]
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UP NEXT: KID ROCK’s (potential) new flame, a questionable deleted scene from “Titanic,” a majority of Americans support PRESIDENT TRUMP in The Swamp, and an historic car crash on this day in history.
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