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Gates Foundation plans to give away $9 billion in 2026 to prepare for the 2045 closure while slashing hundreds of jobs

Who will take the reins of philanthropy with the Gates Foundation absent?

Fortune

Gates Foundation unveils $9 billion budget and plans to cut staff

The Gates Foundation plans to spend a record $9 billion in 2026, focusing on global health and other key areas

The Independent UK

Gates Foundation Sells MSFT Stock—Should Investors Be Worried?

The Gates Foundation sold 65% of its Microsoft stake, but analysts say the move reflects rebalancing, not fading confidence, which makes MSFT stock a buy

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Foreign aid cuts will see extra 200,000 children under five die this year, damning Gates report warns

Report from the Gates Foundation says the death rate for under-fives will increase for the first time this century as cuts by Donald Trump and from nations across Europe begin to bite

The Independent UK

Bill Gates decries ‘significant reversal in child deaths’ as nearly 5 million kids will die before they turn 5 this year

The Gates Foundation rings the alarm on the century’s first reversal in progress to save the world’s poorest children, following cuts to international aid.

Fortune

Microsoft No Longer Top 3 Holding After Gates Foundation Sells 17 Million Shares

The Gates Foundation Trust significantly rebalanced its portfolio in the third quarter of 2025, trimming its largest holdings and exiting several positions entirely in a quarter marked by selling.

Benzinga

African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the internet.

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Bill Gates Says Whats Happening To Health Of World's Children 'Worse' Than Most People Realize And He Can't Replace Government Cuts

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates warned that shrinking global health funding threatens millions of children's lives, even as he announced a $912 million pledge to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Benzinga

Gates Foundation Axes Grants to Arabella Advisors, Seeks 'Early Exit' From $450M Deals With Woke Nonprofit Giant

The Gates Foundation is ending its $450 million partnership with Arabella Advisors, a powerful for-profit consultancy.

International Business Times UK

Bill Gates Leans Heavily On Warren Buffett's Playbook, Pumps More Into Berkshire — 67% Of His Foundation's Portfolio Sits In Just These 3 Stocks

The Gates Foundation Trust, co-founded by billionaire Bill Gates, has increased its portfolio value to $47.78 billion as of the end of the second quarter of 2025, boosting its stake in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B (NYSE:BRK) with its holdings remaining highly concentrated in three key stocks.

Benzinga

US has slashed global vaccine funding – if philanthropy fills the gap, there could be some trade-offs

The U.S. government is relaxing federal vaccine requirements and cutting vaccine research and development funding here at home. Elsewhere, it’s going even further.

The Conversation

Just 1% of health R&D targets women. The Gates Foundation aims to change that with $2.5 billion push

The unprecedented funding will support research in areas ranging from gynecological health to AI-powered diagnostics.

Fortune

Why investing in women’s health is good for business

Dr. Anita Zaidi is president of the Gender Equality Division at the Gates Foundation.

Fortune

A new Bill Gates charity foundation is spending $1bn to boost AI tools for at-risk Americans

Bill Gates helps launch $1 billion initiative to help low-income Americans get out of problems with AI.

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International Business Times UK

Warren Buffett Donates 9.4M Berkshire Shares to the Gates Trust Despite Rumoured Rift With Bill Gates

Buffett converted 8,239 class A shares of Berkshire Hathaway into 12.35 million class B shares out of which, 9.4 million were given away to the Gates Foundation while the remaining were donated to family foundations.

Benzinga

Bill Gates Is Betting Two-Thirds Of His Foundation's Portfolio In These 3 Stocks

The Gates Foundation Trust, founded by the billionaire Bill Gates, has a portfolio valued at $41.806 billion, which is concentrated in these three stocks as of the end of the first quarter of 2025.

Fortune

Inside Bill Gates' meeting with his foundation's staff after his $200 billion bombshell: ‘How do we get people to care?’

Bill Gates and Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman met their employees with a combination of optimism and rage.

International Business Times UK

Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Decides To Give Away 99% of His Wealth via Foundation by 2045

Bill Gates wrote in a recent blog post that he plans to give away 99% of his £127 billion fortune over the next two decades via the Gates Foundation.

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The philanthropy world weighs in on Bill Gates’ $200 billion bet on global health: 'People will be watching this as an example'

The Gates Foundation will close in a tight 20-year timeline. What does the philanthropy world make of it?

Windows Central

Bill Gates to donate '99% of his billions' to fix Elon Musk's mess: "The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one"

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will give away $200 billion and spend the next 20 years eradicating deadly diseases and premature deaths of mothers and babies.

International Business Times UK

Bill Gates Says Elon Musk Is 'Killing Kids,' Here's The Real Story Behind The Explosive Claim

A bitter feud has ignited between Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Gates accuses Musk of killing the world's poorest children through misguided USAID cuts.

Fortune

Melinda French Gates reflects on Gates Foundation legacy

French Gates has played a pivotal role in global health since the turn of the century.

The Independent UK

Why Bill Gates is donating 99 per cent of his billion dollar fortune to Gates Foundation

Gates' contribution will empower the foundation to inject an additional $200 billion into its global health and US education initiatives

The Conversation

Foreign aid cuts could mean 10 million more HIV infections by 2030 – and almost 3 million extra deaths

In January, the Trump administration ordered a broad pause on all US funding for foreign aid.

International Business Times UK

Warren Buffett Entrusts His Children With 'Not So Easy' Task To Donate His $143 Billion Wealth; Eldest Son To Become Next Berkshire Hathaway Chairman

Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, 94, entrusted his children with the responsibility of donating his entire wealth upon his passing to charities of their choice. His new estate plans will also stop funding the Gates Foundation upon his death.

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