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Warren Buffett Donates 9.4M Berkshire Shares to the Gates Trust Despite Rumoured Rift With Bill Gates

Buffett converted 8,239 class A shares of Berkshire Hathaway into 12.35 million class B shares out of which, 9.4 million were given away to the Gates Foundation while the remaining were donated to family foundations.

International Business Times UK

Bill Gates Is Betting Two-Thirds Of His Foundation's Portfolio In These 3 Stocks

The Gates Foundation Trust, founded by the billionaire Bill Gates, has a portfolio valued at $41.806 billion, which is concentrated in these three stocks as of the end of the first quarter of 2025.

Benzinga

Warren Buffett donates another $6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway shares—with the lion's share going to the Gates Foundation

The Gates Foundation is the biggest beneficiary this time around.

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Bill Gates Could've Been The World's First Trillionaire — and Richer Than Elon Musk — If He'd Kept His Microsoft Stock

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, could have been the world’s first trillionaire if he had retained his original company stock.

Benzinga

Warren Buffett Donates $6 Billion In Berkshire Stock To Gates Foundation And Other Charities, His Biggest Gift In 20+ Years: Here's How Much He's Given Away So Far

Warren Buffett has donated a staggering $6 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) shares to the Gates Foundation and four family charities. This is Buffett’s largest annual donation since he began his philanthropic journey almost two decades ago.

Benzinga

Bill Gates Warns Of 'Perilous' Times After Trump Administration Pulls Funding From Gavi, A Group That Has Paid For Over A Billion Children's Vaccinations: 'All The Progress We've Made Is At Risk'

This week, on multiple occasions, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates expressed concern over the future of global health, warning that recent cuts to funding for Gavi could undo decades of progress in saving children’s lives through vaccinations.

Benzinga

Bill Gates in Brussels next week for fresh vaccine financing push with EU leaders

The head of the Gates Foundation hosts a pledging conference on Wednesday, together with EU leaders, in order to collect 9 billion dollars for vaccines. Gates will also participate in a debate at the European Parliament.

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Bill Gates vows to give most of $200bn fortune to African health and education

Tech mogul says “Every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity’

The Guardian - US

A precarious success story: In South Africa, the hard-won progress of a youth-led HIV education program is threatened by international funding cuts

Youth rely on mobile health clinics to help curb the spread of HIV. But what happens now?

Fortune

Bill Gates Sells Berkshire Hathaway Stock for the Third Consecutive Quarter, Dumps 2.4M Shares in Q1

Bill Gates sold over 7 million Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway in the past three quarters, with the latest sale of over 2.48 million shares in Q1.

International Business Times UK

How to Age Gracefully: Learn from Bill Gates, the Who and David Attenborough

Getting old isn’t nearly as bad as many people think it will be. Nor is it quite as good. Maybe it’s somewhere in between.

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Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates Decides To Give Away 99% of His Wealth via Foundation by 2045

Bill Gates wrote in a recent blog post that he plans to give away 99% of his £127 billion fortune over the next two decades via the Gates Foundation.

International Business Times UK

The philanthropy world weighs in on Bill Gates’ $200 billion bet on global health: 'People will be watching this as an example'

The Gates Foundation will close in a tight 20-year timeline. What does the philanthropy world make of it?

Fortune

Bill Gates to donate '99% of his billions' to fix Elon Musk's mess: "The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one"

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will give away $200 billion and spend the next 20 years eradicating deadly diseases and premature deaths of mothers and babies.

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Bill Gates Says Elon Musk Is 'Killing Kids,' Here's The Real Story Behind The Explosive Claim

A bitter feud has ignited between Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Gates accuses Musk of killing the world's poorest children through misguided USAID cuts.

PC Gamer

Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE cutbacks are directly responsible for kids dying: 'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one'

Adds that Musk has no idea what these agencies do.

International Business Times

Bill Gates Speeds Up Giving Away Fortune, Blasts Musk

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday an accelerated timeframe for giving away his fortune as he touted artificial intelligence as a game-changer to boost public health and save lives globally.

Euronews

Bill Gates pledges to donate ‘virtually all’ his fortune to global health causes over next 20 years

The billionaire philanthropist had previously planned for his fortune to keep funding global health initiatives decades after his death.

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Bill Gates Says Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could ‘Absolutely’ Cost 2 Million Children's Lives If Not Reversed

Bill Gates is concerned about recent spending cuts from the current administration and their impact on child mortality rates around the world.

The Guardian - US

Bill Gates says his Foundation will close in 2045 and decries Musk for USAID cuts

Microsoft co-founder accuses Trump ally of involvement in ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ by slashing US aid funding

The Independent UK

Bill Gates to donate 99 per cent of fortune to his own charity

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Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk After Pledging To Donate 99% Of His Fortune: 'Killing The World's Poorest Children'

Billionaire Bill Gates pledged to donate 99% of his fortune to the Gates Foundation over the next years before closing down the organization in 2045

The Independent UK

Melinda French Gates reflects on legacy of Gates Foundation as it announces it will close in 2045

Melinda French Gates says she and her ex-husband, Bill Gates, always intended for the foundation they started together to spend down all of its resources rather than to exist in perpetuity

The Independent UK

Why Bill Gates is donating 99 per cent of his billion dollar fortune to Gates Foundation

Gates' contribution will empower the foundation to inject an additional $200 billion into its global health and US education initiatives

The Independent UK

The Gates Foundation’s first 25 years: How it changed global health and philanthropy

In its first 25 years, the Gates Foundation became one of the world’s largest charitable foundations and one of the most powerful institutions in global health

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