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Chair of the Gates Foundation. Founder of Breakthrough Energy. Co-founder of Microsoft. Voracious reader. Avid traveler. Active blogger.
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Bill Gates shared thisThe Global Fund has helped save 72 million lives since 2002. What an achievement. It’s exceedingly rare for an organization to work this well, this consistently, for this long. But we can’t get complacent. Donor funding cuts last year forced low-and middle-income countries to make impossible choices about how they address national health issues, including HIV, TB and malaria. Their resilience in spite of that has been remarkable, but there’s still so much work to do. Supporting the Global Fund is one of the best investments we can make in the health and well-being of future generations.
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Bill Gates shared thisKen’s incredible generosity will make a huge, lasting impact.Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3 Billion Gift from Ken Griffin, Pioneering a New Model for Higher EducationCarnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3 Billion Gift from Ken Griffin, Pioneering a New Model for Higher Education
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Bill Gates shared thisAI presents the world with big questions and even bigger challenges. This week in New York, I heard many different perspectives and came away with a lot to think about. The good news is that there are reasons to believe we can keep making progress and use AI to solve some of our toughest problems.
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Bill Gates shared thisI appreciated the opportunity to speak with Ezra at length about the state of AI. I believe the world isn't awake to the dangers of this technology and the choices humanity has to make. AI will either be the greatest tool for opportunity and equality we've ever seen—or the cause of immense, unprecedented harm. Which way things go is up to us.
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Bill Gates shared thisAt #Goalkeepers2030, I spoke with Archbishop Vicenzo Paglia about how people and relationships must remain at the center of how we use AI.
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Bill Gates shared thisWe need to put the appropriate AI safeguards and monitoring in place now—to both prevent a loss of control and stop bad actors from using the tech to cause harm. If we minimize the risks, we’ll get to benefit from AI’s immense potential in fields like medicine, education, and agriculture.Bill Gates says it’s ‘not enough to have a kill switch’ for AI: Full interviewBill Gates says it’s ‘not enough to have a kill switch’ for AI: Full interview
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Bill Gates shared thisHannah and her team at Our World in Data do an incredible job of putting the world’s progress into perspective—and showing just how much has changed for the better, even as we face real challenges. Worth the watch.
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Bill Gates shared thisThe question isn’t whether AI will transform the world—it's who will benefit from the transformation. In the 2026 Goalkeepers Report, we argue for three things that will be necessary for AI to become a great equalizer: building AI tools that work in every language people speak; grounding those tools in local data, designed for local realities; and investing in the people who will make AI work in the most underserved settings. Read the full report: https://b-gat.es/4Agi1iY
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Bill Gates shared thisHuge milestone for geothermal. We are one step closer to more clean energy around the clock. Congrats to the Fervo Energy team!Bill Gates shared thisThis week, Fervo Energy generated First Power at Cape Station, our flagship geothermal development near Beaver County, Utah, representing a landmark moment for the future of enhanced geothermal systems. For the first time, power from Cape Station Phase I is flowing through the transmission network. GeoBlock 1 is operating and in the early stages of its production ramp, with commissioning continuing on GeoBlocks 2 and 3. Enhanced geothermal is built to deliver firm, 24/7 carbon-free power, and Cape Station is where we prove it at commercial scale. Cape Station is fully contracted with investment-grade offtakers, and Phase I is backed by $421.4 million in non-recourse project financing. This milestone is years in the making, and we are grateful for the Fervo team, our partners, and the communities who helped make it possible. There is much more work ahead but today brings us one step closer to our goal: prove it, standardize it, repeat it. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gZu9b5Sc Forward-looking statements; actual results may differ materially.
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Bill Gates liked thisBill Gates liked thisExciting news… Ending Alzheimer’s, my new podcast with Bloomberg News, launches on 16 November! #EndingAlzheimers
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Bill Gates liked thisWe're delighted to see the announcement of #EndingAlzheimers, a new four-part Bloomberg Talks podcast series. In the series David Cameron, President of Alzheimer’s Research UK, explores the breakthroughs bringing us closer to better diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.Bill Gates liked thisExciting news… Ending Alzheimer’s, my new podcast with Bloomberg News, launches on 16 November! #EndingAlzheimers
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Bill Gates liked thisBill Gates liked thisFor AI to be truly useful for everyone, it has to work in every language—not just English. This idea is central to Chenai Chair's work. As Director of the Masakhane African Languages Hub, Chenai is working to shape AI that better reflects African languages, local realities, and the people who use it. Explore more of her work and impact: gates.ly/46Wp038
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I am the president of Iceland since August 1st 2024. Previously I served as the CEO and Chief Change Catalyst for The B Team, where global business and civil society leaders work together on confronting our crisis of conformity in leadership. I have long been on a quest to inspire and empower leaders to embrace purpose-driven, gender-balanced and principled leadership. I have passionately pursued this purpose as a business leader in Corporate America with M&M and Pepsi Cola, as the first female CEO of Iceland’s Chamber of commerce and as an executive and non-executive director for diverse businesses. An entrepreneur at heart, I joined the founding team of Reykjavik University where I founded the Executive Education department and led a successful initiative focused on empowering women and girls as entrepreneurs, leaders and investors. In 2007 I co-founded an investment firm with the vision to incorporate feminine values and ESG metrics into finance. The company made international headlines when it successfully survived Iceland’s infamous economic meltdown. In 2016, I ran for President as an independent candidate with no prior political experience and surprised everyone as I emerged from an initial 1% in the polls to becoming the runner-up with nearly 30% of the vote. <br><br>I have an international MBA from Thunderbird and have lived and worked in the US, the UK and across the Nordics. My work has led me to the TED stage several times and I have delivered keynotes and participated in dialogues about new visions for leadership for companies and conferences around the world. Newsweek named me to a list of 150 women who “shake the world” and the New Yorker called me a “Living Emoji of Sincerity”. Who needs a formal title when you can be an Emoji? <br><br>Twitter: @HallaTomas<br>Facebook: @hallatomas
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