Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...

Bill Gates says he worried Microsoft could "fade" in excellence when he stepped down, but his successor, Steve Ballmer, "took ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

In decades past, as the effects of climate change slowly became undeniable, some looked to the super rich for answers — the ...

Ex-employees of a startup bankrolled by Bill Gates' investment firm, sued the company, accusing it of exposing them to toxic ...

After the US slashed global aid, the South African government stated that only 17% of its HIV spending relied on US funding. But some experts argue that US health initiatives had more bang for buck ...

Thought leaders from industry, academia, government and civil society gathered to discuss the ethics and governance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) March 10-11 at the K&L Gates-Carnegie ...

Microsoft's co-founder claims AI will replace humans for most things and we'll have AI agents prioritizing tasks that are worth it.

Many of these early tech billionaires, Gates most prominent among them, were avid philanthropists too, giving away enormous ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that wonders if the president would be less interested in blanket tariffs if everyone stopped using the verb “slap” to describe ...