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| 2025 | Planned publication of the first of three memoirs, 'Source Code'. |
| 2025 | Bill Gates revealed in a BBC interview that his total charitable donations had reached $100 billion, with $60 billion directed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
| 2025 | In Source Code, Gates wrote that he believed he was autistic. |
| January 2025 | Launched Manas AI, an AI-enabled drug discovery startup with cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, securing about $25 million in initial funding. |
| January 2025 | Faced sanctions from Delaware Chancery Court Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster for deleting personal emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. |
| January 24 2025 | Kaitlyn Dever became the first actress cast in the upcoming Godzilla x Kong sequel |
| 2024 | Appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to philanthropy. |
| 2024 | Eric Schmidt discussed potential AI startup strategies in an interview with Stanford University students, highlighting the Silicon Valley approach of 'move fast and break things' and potential legal risk-taking with intellectual property. |
| 2024 | Legendary announced Adam Wingard would not return to direct the next film due to scheduling conflicts |
| 2024 | Steve Endacott ran as an AI avatar named 'AI Steve' in the Brighton Pavilion constituency for the UK general election, promising to vote in Parliament based on policies with at least 50% support. AI Steve placed last with 179 votes. |
| 2024 | Initially endorses President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, then shifts support to Vice President Kamala Harris after Biden's withdrawal. |
| 2024 | Hoffman's podcast 'Possible' won two Webby awards, including Best Individual Episode featuring Trevor Noah and Best Crime and Justice Episode featuring Bryan Stevenson. |
| 2024 | Mark Cuban was included in the Time 100 Most Influential People 2024. |
| 2024 | Cuban endorsed Kamala Harris for President and launched 'Business Leaders for Harris' with other executives. |
| 2024 | Sheryl Sandberg endorsed Kamala Harris for president. |
| 2024 | Halvorson and Kurtz published 'This Little World: A How-To Guide for Social Innovators' through Routledge, providing practical guidance for social innovation practitioners. |
| 2024 | NPR investigation revealed Marc Benioff purchased over 600 acres of land in Hawaii near Waimea, totaling $24.5 million in investments, which raised local concerns about housing prices. |
| 2024 | Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society |
| October 2024 | Bill Gates donated $50 million to Future Forward USA Action, an organization supporting Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. |
| October 2024 | Jennifer Katherine Gates gave birth to her second daughter. |
| October 17 2024 | Cuban joined Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in Wisconsin, criticizing Donald Trump's tariff policies and comparing him to the Grinch. |
| July 2024 | Washington Post reported Hoffman's multimillion-dollar investment in election technology company Smartmatic. |
| July 17 2024 | The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill was officially announced, marking the beginning of its legislative journey in the UK parliament. |
| July 4 2024 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire became available to stream on Max. |
| June 2024 | Legendary announced Grant Sputore as the new director for the upcoming Godzilla x Kong sequel, with a planned release date of March 26, 2027 |
| June 11 2024 | The film was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Ultra HD Blu-ray. |
| May 14 2024 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was released on digital platforms. |
| May 10 2024 | Legendary announced David Callaham would write a follow-up to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire |
| April 2024 | Conducted an interview with an AI deepfake of himself, built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and trained on over 20 years of his public speaking and published materials. |
| April 2024 | In April 2024, Sheryl Sandberg's documentary, Screams Before Silence, was released on YouTube. The film addresses the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas during the October 7th attack on Israel, which Sandberg has called the most important work of her life. |
| April 26 2024 | The film was released in Japan via Toho. |
| April 17 2024 | For the Japanese release, artists Ai, Yaffle, and OZworld released the film's theme track 'Rise Together'. |
| April 11 2024 | Appointed to Amazon's board of directors. |
| March 2024 | Litigation in London struck down Wright's claims, declaring he was not Satoshi Nakamoto. |
| March 2024 | Benioff donated $150 million to Hawaii medical organizations to build additional facilities and connect the Hawaii Pacific Health system with local hospitals. |
| March 29 2024 | The film was released in theaters in the United States. |
| March 29 2024 | Film released in the United States nationwide. |
| March 27 2024 | The film was released internationally in theaters. |
| March 25 2024 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire held its red carpet premiere at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. |
| March 25 2024 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. |
| March 22 2024 | The full soundtrack album for the film was released. |
| March 13 2024 | WaterTower Music released a single titled 'Main Title Theme' from the film's soundtrack. |
| January 2024 | Sandberg announced that she would not stand for re-election on the board of Meta in May 2024. |
| 2023 | Appointed to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, a legislative commission tasked with making policy recommendations to Congress and the Executive Branch. |
| 2023 | Director Adam Wingard and co-writer Jeremy Ongaro were inspired by the Godzilla Minus One trailer, deciding to recreate a specific shot of ground bursting beneath Godzilla's footfall for the Rome sequence in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. |
| 2023 | The Egyptian battle scene between Godzilla and Kong was creatively inspired by the iconic fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David from the 1988 film They Live. |
| 2023 | It was reported in 2023 that Jeffrey Epstein had threatened to expose an alleged affair Bill Gates had with a Russian bridge player. |
| 2023 | In February, Bill Gates confirmed that he was dating Paula Hurd, widow of former Oracle Corporation and Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd. |
| 2023 | In 2023, Gates was ranked sixth in the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans with a net worth of $115.0 billion. |
| 2023 | Gates was the subject of an episode of the UK Channel 4 series The Billionaires Who Made Our World. |
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