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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Almost two years have passed since OpenAI released GPT-3.5 to great fanfare. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, compared the technology’s arrival to his first encounter with the graphical user interface—a breakthrough that reshaped personal computing—in the 1980s.

Donald Trump becoming the next US President after the gala inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2025, nearly every powerful and influential person in the US is trying to be in his good books, and this includes Microsoft founder Bill Gates, as the billionaire philanthropist is reportedly eager to meet with the President-elect at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Catalyst is awarding US$40 million to Montreal-based Deep Sky to help it test its carbon removal technology in Alberta.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has scaled yet another peak as the world's richest person, with his net worth surpassing the $400 billion mark as per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk’s net worth stands at $447 billion, gaining $ 218 billion in this calendar year so far, and has surpassed the combined wealth of billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index data.

America’s wealthiest have long urged each other to give away more money.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. An underappreciated force behind great technological change is intense—and petty—rivalry. In the “war of the currents" in the late 19th century, Thomas Edison electrocuted stray animals to discredit Nikola Tesla.

Instagram is experiencing technical glitches across the globe, with many netizens moving to X (formerly known as Twitter) to complain about the app not working.In a post on X, one user simply wrote: “Instagram stops working #instagramdown" with a meme attached.Also Read | THIS Royal family is 4x richer than Elon Musk and Bill Gates combined… its not the British monarchy Also Read | Donald Trump nominates Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary — Who is he?Tracking site Downdetector has noted over 740 user complaints about the app being affected since 10.34 am today (November 19).It also reported that around 40 per cent of users experienced server issues, 41 per cent had login issues, 14 per cent saw their feeds interrupted.There is no official statement on the glitch from Instagram or parent company Meta Platforms yet.Also Read | Delhi police arrest Chinese national in ₹100 crore online stock trading cyber fraud caseLast month too, thousands of Instagram users flagged an outage. People were unable to send or receive direct messages on October 29, according to data available on Downdetector.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WHEN HISTORIANS write about the first quarter of the 21st century, they may sum it up this way: 20 years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for nearly every issue the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works on, from poverty reduction to primary-school enrolment.

Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani recently shared memories of his first meeting with his wife, Rohini, during a quiz competition in 1977 at Mumbai's Elphinstone College. In a podcast with Nikhil Kamath, he recalled, “We had a quiz competition, I was representing IIT and the quiz was (hosted) at Elphinstone College. That's how I met her.” Nilekani humorously noted that IIT had «obviously» won the competition, adding, “Obviously, we won the quiz… That’s how I met her way back in 1977."

Humanitarians are enlisting entertainers and creators to reach impassioned youth during climate week events that coincide with the United Nations General Assembly's high-level meetings

Alongside the launch of the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Report 2024, Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates tells ET that he hopes India will be able to graduate from the public distribution system and rely instead on raised incomes over the next decades. Edited excerpts: The latest Goalkeepers Report focuses strongly on malnutrition. What is your view on India’s policy interventions such as free cereals given through the public distribution system? There is no doubt that the poorer you are, the higher is food as a percentage of your budget. And so, the idea that governments, either by incentivising the private sector or through various subsidisation, keep food costs fairly low- particularly for the urban poor, and yet they have to be careful not to hurt the farmers. The balancing act, India does manage largely. In the US, we have graduated from needing to have this type of food distribution. We have a thing called ‘food stamps’, where you get money, and you can only use it to buy food. At some point — it could be more than a decade — hopefully, you can graduate from having to have a public distribution system and just rely on the fact that you have raised incomes and educated consumers.

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks the richest governments should increase their support for African countries

Bill Gates addressed two pressing challenges that the humankind might come around the world. He pointed the major situation of the world being in a crossroads as today’s decisions will affect the future generations, reported Fortune. Bill Gates also has come up with the point of proactive measures of humanity being at risk to be entered in a cycle of conflict or health issues.

The CEO promoted a relaxed work environment, emphasizing flexibility and extended hours, often blurring the lines between work and personal life. According to leywino, she was encouraged to immerse herself fully in her role, which included the freedom to socialize casually with colleagues and engage in informal activities during work hours.

Over the course of human history, some technologies have had a more profound impact than others. Arguably, fire was the first ‘technology’ tamed by humans, which then led to agriculture, the printing press, electricity, computing, the internet and so on.

Alice Walton will become a member of an exclusive elite group of centi-billionaires, which includes Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett, soon, provided her wealth keeps increasing and surpasses the $100 billion threshold. The Walmart heiress surpassed the L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers to become the wealthiest woman in the world, and her net worth is expected to surpass $100 billion in the near future. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Alice Walton, the retail tycoon Sam Walton's daughter, is now worth over $95 billion for the first time. Due in large part to Walmart's stock price surge of 44% to a record high this year, her net worth increased by $25 billion. Also Read: Somebody Somewhere Season 3: Premiere date, where to watch, plot, teaser, cast and production

LONDON — British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been found dead in the wreckage of his superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily earlier this week. He was 59 years old.

A superyacht that sank off the Sicilian coast during a storm left six passengers missing, including British tech kingpin Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah

LONDON — British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch was acquitted of fraud charges in June in a landmark trial over allegations made by Hewlett Packard that he had artificially inflated the value of his company when he sold it to the U.S. enterprise tech giant for $11.7 billion in 2011.