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#102: Gates Foundation's $540M AI Health-Data Bet, GiveDirectly's Three-Week Earthquake Cash, an AI Supercomputer for East Africa's Climate Center
Impact Signals #102: Gates Foundation's $540M AI Health-Data Bet, GiveDirectly's Three-Week Earthquake Cash, an AI Supercomputer for East Africa's Climate Center The Gates Foundation just made the largest charitable gift in University of Washington history: $540.2 million over ten years to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, expanding the Global Burden of Disease study from 925 to nearly 5,000 locations and funding AI-enabled tools inside the dataset the world's health planners steer by. On the operational side, Fast Company documented GiveDirectly landing cash on Venezuelan…
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