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  1. winbuzzer.com/2026/05/14/anthr

    Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have formed a $200 million, four-year partnership to fund AI tools, datasets, and technical support for health, education, and economic mobility programs.

    #AI #Anthropic #Claude #GatesFoundation

  2. RE: tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/1165

    Thank you for the gift link, but really, the idea that it's up to a singular individual to save the world is how we got #elonmusk, the #gatesfoundation, etc.

  3. Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center

    Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine, and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Computing #alumni #BillGates #CA #Canada #comedy #Gates #GatesFoundation #hahaveryfunny #Humor #palantir #peter-thiel #Technology #thiel
    newsbeep.com/ca/579993/

  4. @i47i
    If this is the real reason to un-invite the king of #Philanthrocapitalism than we could say that at least one good outcome happened after the publication of (some) of the E. files.
    #EpsteinFiles #PhilantroCapitalism #India #GatesFoundation #UniversalHealthCare

  5. Gates Foundation will use $2.5B and new tech to close gaps in women’s health - Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)

    The ... - geekwire.com/2025/gates-founda #health/lifesciences #gatesfoundation #womenshealth #billgates

  6. @verdantsquare

    The best thing Gates could invest in is saving/restoring US democracy.

    The sitting administration, like the other world autocracies, is a petrostate with no interest in addressing Climate Change. In fact, it wants to undo progress to date and deny/hide Climate Science.

    We The People will hopefully vote otherwise, but the machinery of voting by the time that happens will be compromised, and that's unlikely to fix the problem. At this point, the only votes that count are those of billionaires.

    If the greedy billionaires line up behind profit at the expense of all else, and the less greedy billionaires fritter away their funds on issues that are individually important but that collectively sap any hope of a long-term future for humanity, we're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Even if we cured cancer and solved myriad other societal ills, if the Climate Crisis isn't solved, society will melt down anyway and humans may well go extinct, so what was the point?

    Also, unless he puts unexpected safeguards on things, I'll bet quite a bit of this goes to using or investing in AI, which at this point means a hugely more energy-intensive and fresh-water-consuming world at a time when we can least afford it. In effect, it's an investment in hastening the Climate problem.

    I'm sure he'll put some of it into specific Climate efforts, but the thing is this: While it's useful to do some amount of research on climate, we know what we really have to do and are not doing it. A sustainable future means ramping down energy use and consumption-based economics.

    The problem with research isn't that it might not produce some wonderful discovery, but that we don't know that it will, and we don't know the timeline. As such, we need to start in earnest doing things we DO know how to do and that we DO know the timeline for. He is not promising to do that.

    I see no serious leadership on Climate here, just a giant hunk of monetary inertia on a path that is sinking humanity. I'd love it if someone could convince me otherwise, but I'm not optimistic. I certainly don't think it's the sort of thing where just "trusting the process" is enough.

    #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #democracy #autocracy #petrostate #capitalism #LateStageCapitalism #sustainability #science #ClimateScience #philanthropy #oligarchy #Gates #BillGates #GatesFoundation

  7. Bill Gates schießt gegen Elon Musk: Der reichste Mann der Welt tötet durch seine Kürzungen bei der Entwicklungshilfe die ärmsten Kinder. Gates findet das unerträglich und will bis 2045 fast sein gesamtes Vermögen für mildtätige Zwecke einsetzen. Fokus: Senkung der Kinder- und Müttersterblichkeit sowie Impfungen gegen Polio, Malaria und Masern. Gates: „Ich will nicht als reicher Mann sterben!“

    #BillGates #ElonMusk #Entwicklungshilfe #GatesFoundation #USAID

    manager-magazin.de/politik/bil

  8. And it comes laced with familiar #humanitarian confidence, as #BillGates & his team now believe that their central goals can be achieved in much shorter time. But it is also disconcertingly definitive: The #GatesFoundation will close its doors, permanently, on Dec. 31, 2045, at least several decades before originally intended. In the meantime, it will be spending down its endowment, as well as almost all of Gates’s remaining personal fortune.

    #philanthropy

  9. For all its pragmatic #PublicHealth spade work, the #GatesFoundation has also served as a kind of valorous abstraction—the seeming embodiment of “the Golden Rule,” in a phrase that #BillGates likes to use, & the face of an increasingly anachronistic era of elite optimism.

    “You could say this announcement is not very timely,” Gates says, but the timeline isn’t short: He is committing the foundation to 20 more years of generous #aid, >$200B in total, targeting #health & #human #development.

  10. India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of open access

    Numerous articles here on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, since its successful implementation […]

    #apcs #businessModels #diamondOa #funders #gatesFoundation #goldOa #grants #india #openAccess #plos #profits

    walledculture.org/india-spends

  11. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  12. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  13. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  14. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  15. #SanjushDalmia and @JACoates recommend that #UKRI stop funding #APCs as part of its #OpenAccess policy. Instead, it should require grantees to release their grant-funded research as OA #preprints. This type of policy is sometimes called #Plan_U and variations on the theme have been adopted by the #GatesFoundation and #ChanZuckerbergFoundation.

    Two articles about this:

    * Free from Research Information
    researchprofessionalnews.com/r

    * Paywalled from Times Higher Ed
    timeshighereducation.com/news/

  16. Another sign that gold open access was a mistake, and that diamond open access is the future

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shift in its publishing policy hugely important.

    An article in Chemical & Engineering […]

    #apcs #coalitionS #diamondOa #funding #gatesFoundation #goldOa #peerReview #planS #preprints #publishers #unesco #verixiv

    https://walledculture.org/another-sign-that-gold-open-access-was-a-mistake-and-that-diamond-open-access-is-the-future/

  17. New #research paper led by Heather Chamberlain at WorldPop - High-resolution estimates of social distancing feasibility, mapped for #urban areas in sub-Saharan #Africa - in #ScientificData #Covid19 #NPIs #socialdistancing
    Mapped index data: wopr.worldpop.org/?/SocialDist
    Visualised on the #GRID3 data hub: data.grid3.org/search?categori.
    The work is part of the #Grid3 project, funded by #gatesfoundation and #FCDOGovUK
    Project summary: worldpop.org/current-projects/
    Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-017