Was No. 1 on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for 12 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007. As of 2024, the Gates Foundation has issued $83.3 billion in grant payments to charitable causes.

A Sept. 18 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes a picture of a gold microchip resting on a person's fingertip. “Bill Gates has invented a birth control microchip that can be switched on ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said climate change’s “doomsday scenario” is wrong, and advocated for continuing reductions in carbon emissions while accelerating aid to countries ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates admits he was naive to believe widespread information access would naturally lead to truth, acknowledging the power of confirmation bias. He now sees artificial ...