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The Gates Foundation is funding a startup’s plan to fight malnutrition with bacteria

Synthetic microbiomes to treat disease. Sea levels may rise faster than we thought. AI for scientific researchers. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

  • By Alex Knapp
  • Forbes Staff
There's a new top 3 on the rich list. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have climbed the rankings and now trail only Elon Musk... by some distance. Images: Getty

The top 10 richest people in the world (May 2026)

There’s a new member of the $300 billion club and a second sibling from America’s richest family among the planet’s ten wealthiest people.

  • By Forbes Staff

Reranking the world’s billionaires by wealth – and altruism

Forbes recalculated the wealth of the richest billionaires to add back in what they gave to charity. Here’s who moves up the ranks.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Bill Gates admits to affairs, says he never did anything ‘illicit’ with Epstein

Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, said Epstein was aware of his affairs but that he wasn’t involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking schemes.

  • By Mary Whitfill Roeloffs

Asides

How Melinda French Gates plans to fund “chronically,” “unconscionably” underfunded programs for women and girls

Divorced from Bill Gates and the foundation they created, French Gates discusses connecting with other women to maximize their impact at a critical time.

  • By Luisa Kroll

Melinda French Gates suggests Bill Gates’ Epstein ties caused marriage to end

Bill Gates and his ex-wife separated in 2021.

  • By Martina Di Licosa

Bill Gates donated another $2 billion to ex-wife Melinda’s foundations, new records show

Melinda French Gates has received at least $10.8 billion from Bill to bolster her philanthropy supporting women and families.

  • By Monica Hunter-Hart
President Donald Trump will host tech executives at a Rose Garden event Thursday following a separate gathering on artificial intelligence hosted by First Lady Melania Trump, though Tesla CEO Elon Musk is notably absent from the guest list.

Trump will host tech billionaires Bill Gates, Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg at rose garden event tonight

Elon Musk is not on the guest list released by the White House.

  • By Sara Dorn
  • Forbes Staff
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg overtook Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s third richest person Thursday

The biggest billionaire winners and losers of Trump’s first 100 days

Hundreds of billionaires are poorer since Trump took office. Here are the few who have lost—or gained—the most.

  • By Chase Peterson-Withorn
  • Forbes Staff

America’s most generous philanthropists 2025

America’s top philanthropists: From Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to newcomer Reed Hastings of Netflix, the most generous people in the country have doled out billions.

  • By Forbes Wealth Team
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