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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · today 15:34 EDT

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Shifts Bulk of Philanthropy, 'Going All In on AI-Powered Biology'

The Associated Press reports that "For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — 'to cure, prevent or manage all disease' — if not in their lifetime, then in their children's."

During that decade they also funded other initiatives (including underprivileged schools and immigration reform), according to the article. But there's a change coming:



Now, the billionaire couple is shifting the bulk of their philanthropic resou

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