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This might not only shift the thinking about temporal considerations but encourage billionaires to get money off the sidelines,
said Soskis, who has received some funding from the Gates Foundation There’s no doubt that the USAID payment cutoffs that Elon drove have resulted in a dramatic increase in childhood death,
Gates said in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday I have decided to give my money back to society much faster than I had originally planned,
Gates, 69, wrote in a statement It's unclear whether the world’s richest countries will continue to stand up for its poorest people. But the one thing we can guarantee is that, in all of our work, the Gates Foundation will support efforts to help people and countries pull themselves out of poverty,
The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one,
Gates said of Musk in an interview with the Financial Times All the intelligence will be in the AI, and so you will have a personal doctor that's as good as somebody who has a full-time dedicated doctor -- that’s actually better than even what rich countries have,
Gates told the New York Times The tools are so phenomenal,
he said of the potential for AI in global health The United States, United Kingdom, France, and other countries around the world are cutting their aid budgets by tens of billions of dollars. And no philanthropic organization—even one the size of the Gates Foundation—can make up the gulf in funding that's emerging right now,
I think 20 years is the right balance between giving as much as we can to make progress on these things and giving people a lot of notice that now this money will be gone,
Gates told the Associated Press As I was learning about what children die of, you know, HIV and diarrhoea and pneumonia, were all things that I was stunned how little was going into helping the poor countries,
Gates said, reflecting on the early days of the foundation's mission Having that time horizon and the resources just puts an even greater burden on us to say, ‘Are you actually putting your resources, your thumb down, on what are going to be the biggest, most successful bets rather than scattering it too thinly?’
Gates Foundation CEO Suzman told AP I will give away virtually all my wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years to the cause of saving and improving lives around the world,
the billionaire Microsoft founder said in a post on his blog It's kind of thrilling to have that much to be able to put into these causes.
Following the announcement, he said Ultimately, though, ... the timeline was Bill's decision to make with the board of trustees."
Well, I wish I had even more time. But I have to say, 'OK, this is the last part of my life. And I'm a steward of these resources, ... I should make sure that it's well spent. And now this is the last stage of all that."
You always want more money going into these things where you're saving lives for a few thousand dollars. And I will be an advocate for that,
said Gates, praising global health initiatives spearheaded by former President George W. Bush — like his Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief launched in 2003 — which he says should be maintained By deciding to spend all this money in the next 20 years, we can get a lot more done,
Gates said in an interview taped last week, days before he announced the initiative So we should be going from 5 million children dying a year over the next five years to 4 million. And now with these cuts, if they're not reversed, we will go to over 6 million dying. So, instead of going down, we will go back up,
Since then, some of the programs have been cut off,
No, I won't. I hope I'm still alive when we finish the 20 years, but I will save a little bit to be able to buy hamburgers as much as I need,
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