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Bill Gates has emerged front and center in the news cycle this week, delivering a stark warning about global collapse and calling this moment a historic crossroads for humanity according to L’Express and The Daily Galaxy. Gates, in a wide-ranging interview published October 18, underscored his belief that rising nationalism and shrinking development budgets are eroding international cooperation, pushing rich countries to turn inward despite the urgent need for collective action. He insists the tools to fix our global challenges exist, but they will only work if the world acts decisively—and soon.

On the philanthropic front, Gates has reiterated his pledge to donate nearly all his remaining fortune, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation driving major commitments to global health, particularly the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Just last month, he announced $912 million dedicated to the Global Fund, boosting his already legendary profile as the world’s enduring mega-donor, as reported by KYMA. Gates intends to sunset the Gates Foundation within 25 years of his and Melinda’s deaths, believing fast-moving, time-bound philanthropy can catalyze riskier, more transformative solutions, a strategy he has discussed in alignment with researchers at Stanford.

Gates’ urgent tone extends to health aid. Speaking at a high-profile Brussels summit on June 25, he implored governments not to cut health funding, warning of tragic increases in child mortality if the current downward trend in official aid continues. According to Gates Notes, he highlighted staggering data: the number of children dying annually under five years old has dropped from over 12 million in 1990 to 5 million today, thanks to advances in vaccination and health systems. He’s proud of the Gates Foundation’s role in halving global child deaths since 2000 and voiced optimism that, despite setbacks, innovation and recommitment will resume historic progress.

Yet the twin crises of climate and innovation dominated Gates’s public messaging. He believes climate change is a “multiplier of risk” and has doubled down on backing breakthrough energy technologies, from carbon capture to alternative proteins, but cautions that equitable access and sound policy are critical or, in his words, “technology alone isn’t the answer.”

In a lighter news byte, Fortune highlighted Gates’s musings on humans enjoying a much shorter workweek in the age of AI, as tech leaders such as Ari Emanuel echoed Gates’s confidence that a three-day workweek may be on the horizon. Gates suggested on The Tonight Show in March that as automation advances, most jobs may ultimately require only a fraction of the current effort.

On social media, Gates’s voice continues to drive the global health conversation. Recent viral Rotary posts and World Immunization Week content featured Gates urging relentless collaboration to help end polio—a campaign now in its final stretch thanks to innovation, upgraded labs, and the persistence of frontline health workers, all amplified through hashtags like EndPolio.

Other headlines cite Gates’s enduring influence, from his revolutionary work with Indian engineers in the 1980s, which he credits as transforming Microsoft and global tech, to his ongoing support for African women’s health research through multimillion-dollar investments.

While Gates has faced occasional critique and speculation online, most notably around pandemic preparedness and Event 201, media coverage in recent days has remained focused on his pragmatic, data-driven approach and escalating calls for global unity in the face of crisis. There is little substantiated controversy or scandal attached to his activities this week, just a cascade of formidable headlines positioning Gates as the world’s leading advocate for urgency, innovation, and philanthropic action at a...