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U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on effective altruism threaten efforts to reduce suffering, prevent catastrophic risks and ensure global cooperation on AI safety.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2026
Trump’s misguided war against effective altruism
Why would the Trump administration, which with great fanfare created a Department of Government Efficiency, now oppose being effective?
Protesters in San Francisco march from OpenAI’s headquarters to xAI, calling for a pause in artificial intelligence development last March.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2026
Don’t hold your breath for AI agreements or arms control
There have been incidents in which AI has gone rogue, cajoling, flattering or even blackmailing human operators to attain some form of agency.
Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, has warned that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to humanity.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2026
When AI does the thinking, what could possibly go wrong?
Bill Gates’ message is simple: “Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history.”
OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco, California, on July 21. Software made by OpenAI broke free and hacked into another company’s computer systems in July.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 31, 2026
China sees opportunity in America’s recent AI security scares
Chinese companies embrace an open approach for the mathematical parameters that determine how an AI system operates; their U.S. counterparts take the opposite approach.
In the past five years, at least 15 Microsoft branch offices and joint ventures in China have been shut, corporate filings show, and Microsoft is pursuing what five company sources described as a strategy of retreat.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2026
Microsoft retreats in China, but AI boom helps it keep a window open
Microsoft once regarded the idea of quitting China as unthinkable. But in the past five years, at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China have been shut.
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett attends the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders' meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2024.
WORLD
Jul 15, 2026
Warren Buffett cuts off donations to Gates Foundation following Epstein revelations
Bill Gates has seen his reputation tarnished following the U.S. Department of Justice’s release of files about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in February.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates arrives for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 10.
WORLD
Jun 24, 2026
Gates told Congress Epstein considered blackmailing him
In closed-door testimony this month, Gates disputed details that Epstein recorded in emails to himself regarding the Microsoft?co-founder’s extramarital affairs.
Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, departs following a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 11, 2026
Bill Gates tells Congress his Epstein ties were ‘grave error’
The release of Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein has spurred close public scrutiny of the convicted sex offender’s past associations with powerful figures.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been asked to appear before U.S. lawmakers after documents released by the Justice Department raised new questions about his contacts with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 10, 2026
Bill Gates faces questioning in U.S. Congress over Epstein ties
Democrats say they intend to ask what Bill Gates knew about the disgraced financier’s crimes and the full nature of their relationship.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in Stockholm in January.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 8, 2026
Bill Gates to appear before house Epstein panel on June 10
The Microsoft co-founder has called his relationship with the late disgraced financier a “huge mistake” and has denied wrongdoing.
A photo, released by the U.S Department of Justice in the Epstein files, shows Jeffrey Epstein, center, at his Manhattan mansion in 2011. Pictured, from left: James E. Staley, at the time a senior JPMorgan executive; former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers; Jeffrey Epstein; Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder; and Boris Nikolic, who was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s science adviser.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 26, 2026
How Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives
More than he did at any other major tech company, Jeffrey Epstein found success boring into the inner sanctums of Microsoft.
U.S. philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates attends an event in New Delhi on March 19, 2025.
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2026
Bill Gates a no-show at India AI summit as event marred by organizational chaos
The Gates Foundation said the billionaire would ?not deliver his address “to ensure the focus remains on the AI Summit’s key priorities.”
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen meet in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on Wednesday. Belem will host the COP30 U.N. climate summit from Monday through Nov. 21.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2025
Make COP30 about human welfare
In poor countries, parents are not kept awake by concern about achieving a 0.1 degrees Celsius temperature reduction in a century.
Bill Gates speaks at a summit on climate and growth at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris in December 2023. Gates has recently shifted his stance on climate change, advocating for a focus on adapting to a warmer world rather than pursuing emissions reductions.
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2025
Bill Gates is wrong to quiet-quit the climate fight
He says he’s still in it. But his heart no longer appears to be. Worse, he’s giving ammunition to those fighting against further progress.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez listens to Bill Gates speak during an interview at the annual Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers Summit in New York on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 23, 2025
Bill Gates pledges $912 million to health aid, urging countries to reverse cuts
Speaking at an event in New York, Gates said the world was at a crossroads, with millions of children at risk of dying if funding drops too steeply.
Bill Gates, chairman of the Gates Foundation, visits Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Aug. 19.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2025
The world needs 91AV原创 leadership in life sciences
For decades now, Japan has understood the value of global health investment better than almost any other country on the planet.
Bill Gates in New York on May 8
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2025
Gates Foundation commits $2.5 billion for women’s health
The Gates Foundation announcement provides the most detail yet on one area where the foundation plans to use its remaining funds before it shuts down in 2045.
Bill Gates, who pledged on Thursday to give away almost his entire personal wealth in the next two decades and said the world's poorest would receive some $200 billion via his foundation, during an interview in New York City, on Thursday
BUSINESS
May 9, 2025
Bill Gates says Musk is ‘killing’ world’s poorest children by cutting aid
Bill Gates has pledged to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045.
Tech entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Masayoshi Son made his fortune by becoming a bridge between California's technology culture and Japan.
COMMENTARY
Oct 31, 2024
Masayoshi Son may be the oddest of the oddball billionaires
Masayoshi Son made his fortune by becoming a bridge between Californian tech culture and Japan.
Bill Gates delivers a speech at the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin in May. He and his ex-wife Melinda Gates started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has had a far-reaching impact on global health and sustainability.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2024
The economics of philanthropy
Philanthropy can help bridge the gap between the haves and have-nots. But wealthy people need more of an incentive to give than just being altruistic.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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