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flag The Gates Foundation is refocusing its $9B annual budget on health, poverty, and agriculture, cutting some programs and boosting AI tools for long-term impact.

flag The Gates Foundation is doubling down on three core goals—ending preventable maternal and child deaths, controlling key infectious diseases, and reducing poverty through U.S. education and global agriculture—committing at least 70% of its funding over the next two decades to these areas despite global aid cuts. flag It will wind down its digital financial services programs in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by 2030 and phase out its U.S. poverty initiative launched in 2022, though economic mobility work will continue via an AI-focused partnership for frontline workers. flag The foundation will maintain a $9 billion annual budget for five years, then increase spending to fulfill Bill Gates’ pledge to spend his entire fortune by 2045, while capping operating expenses at 14% and reducing its workforce by 2030. flag It continues advocating for U.S. leadership in global health, despite recent funding pauses like the withdrawal from Gavi, and is investing in AI tools for education and agriculture to improve outcomes.

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