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Bill Gates plans to press Xi Jinping on global AI safety and restrictions

The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told Reuters in an interview that he believes China might agree to restrict potentially dangerous AI model releases if the US took initiative.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates arrives for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2026.
Bill Gates departs following a closed door interview before the House Oversight Committee investigating late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, June 10, 2026.

Gates Foundation says no payments were made towards Epstein, following internal investigation

The foundation had opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Bill Gates appears with a woman, whose identity has been obscured, in this image from the Epstein estate released by House Oversight Committee Democrats in Washington, D.C., U.S., on December 18, 2025.

Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations following Epstein revelations

Buffett omitted the Gates Foundation from his annual mid-year donations, instead directing all donations to four family foundations overseen by his daughter Susie and sons Howard and Peter.

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A digital billboard, paid for by The Lincoln Project Advocacy, shows images of US President Donald Trump (R) and late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Times Square in New York City on April 30, 2026.

Trump administration's handling of Epstein cases disapproved by majority of American public - poll

Just 10% of respondents in a Reuters/Ipsos poll said the Trump administration had helped efforts to hold people connected to Epstein accountable.

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FDA approves at-home coronavirus sample kit, suspends Gates-backed test

On Thursday, SCAN in a statement said it has been in talks with the FDA since March 1 and initiated its request for emergency use authorization (EUA) on March 23, submitting data on April 13.

MAY 16, 2020ByREUTERS
Health workers start the process to test people in a car as they use a newly approved saliva-based coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a testing site during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Edison, New Jersey, U.S., April 15, 2020

Gates ups pandemic funds to $250 mil, Trump WHO move makes 'no sense'

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a halt in US funding to the WHO, saying it had "failed in its basic duty" in allowing the pandemic to take hold.

APRIL 16, 2020ByREUTERS
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Bill Gates, world CEO in time of coronavirus

Governments that have lacked transparency turn even more opaque, not only to the detriment of their own people but to that of all humanity.

APRIL 15, 2020ByUDI SOMMER
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From the editor: the vision of Bill Gates

The founder of Microsoft's take on the COVID-19 crisis

APRIL 6, 2020BySTEVE LINDE
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Bill Gates, others pledge $125 million towards coronavirus treatments

The money is intended to ensure that treatments for the virus will be available in poor countries and affordable for individuals.

MARCH 10, 2020ByREUTERS
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends a conversation at the 2019 New Economy Forum in Beijing

Bill Gates urges Afghanistan and Pakistan to eradicate polio

Success in reducing case numbers worldwide has been largely due to intense national and regional immunisation campaigns in babies and children.

MARCH 25, 2019ByREUTERS
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