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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc., right, and Lauren Sanchez Bezos walk to lunch during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, US, on Thursday, July 10, 2025. The annual event has been a historic breeding ground for media deals and is usually a forum for tech and media elites to discuss the future of their industry. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

In Pictures: Tech titans gather for day three of Sun Valley billionaire camp

Jeff Bezos, Cliff Obrecht and Bill Gates are among the rich and powerful gathering for the third day at Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley Conference in Idaho.

June

Newly married Lauren Sanchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos depart from the Aman hotel during wedding celebrations in Venice.

Final bash set to end lavish Bezos wedding party in Venice

Some guests were seen leaving the Gritti Palace hotel in central Venice wearing their pyjamas before boarding small boats to reach the party.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez kiss as they leave a hotel for their pre wedding reception, in Venice.

Gates, Oprah, Kushner: Bezos celebrates ahead of nuptials

Five hotels and 30 water taxis were booked out as the three-day $76 million wedding got under way in Venice despite local protests.

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos enjoying the foam party on the Koru, their $US500 million megayacht.

Bezos’ Venice wedding plans upended as celebrities jet in

Dozens of private jets carrying Bill Gates, Lachlan Murdoch, Lady Gaga, Elton John and others are expected to arrive in Venice this week.

CTO & Founder Dr Ali Fathi and Tetratherix CEO Will Knox in their Lab.

‘Next Cochlear’ launches ASX float to sell its ‘medical Lego’

Tetratherix, a medical device company backed by Xero founder Rod Drury, is set to make its ASX debut later this month with an ambitious global pitch for investors.

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May

Bill Gates is giving away $310b. Can his plans survive the Trump era?

The billionaire’s strategy to turbocharge his global health drive could be undermined by political reality, as the US and other Western governments drastically cut foreign aid.

Bill Gates at the 2024 World Health Summit.

Bill Gates to give away $311b, accuses Musk of killing children

The co-founder of Microsoft, who will donate nearly all his wealth and wind up his charitable foundation by 2045, hit out at the Tesla boss and Donald Trump.

April

Phoebe Gates, in vintage Chanel, at the offices of her online start-up Phia.

Bill Gates’ daughter determined to make it on her own

Phoebe Gates, the youngest and most stylish of Bill and Melinda Gates’ children, steps into the spotlight as a founder of a new online shopping tool.

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Employment jumps; No Fed bailouts coming; ASX pressured on James Hardie

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Bill Gates is looking to enter the nuclear energy market.

Bill Gates enters race to build mini nuclear reactors in Britain

The billionaire’s new company, TerraPower, is looking to break into an increasingly competitive market to build small modular reactors

March

Billionaire Richard White’s girlfriend Zena Nasser singing “Money, Money, Money” in a video posted to TikTok.

WiseTech shareholders just one cheeseburger away from the void

Richard White’s blind confidence in his own understanding of people – learned from those psychology books he recommends to women on LinkedIn – is deeply misplaced.

December 2024

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Victoria’s asset sale; MinRes’ gag request; Wesfarmers’ rates alert

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Bill Gates believes the world is at a dangerous tipping point

The philanthropist has been fighting global disease for 25 years. He is now wrestling with the optimist’s dilemma.

November 2024

Joe Longo at the ASIC Forum.

ASIC’s Joe Longo named Time climate crusader

This feels like 2011, when Euromoney opened our eyes to the charms of Wayne Swan.

October 2024

Bill Gates at TerraPower with a mock-up of metal fuel pin bundles for his planned SMR.

Billionaires bankroll the hunt for nuclear energy’s ‘holy grail’

The massive power demands of AI have triggered a round of frantic deal-making as companies battle for uninterrupted supplies.

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Why Microsoft Excel won’t die

The spreadsheet program has entered its 40th year, although those forced to use it won’t necessarily be celebrating.

September 2024

Cleantech businesses have found that winning investments from private equity and infrastructure funds has become more difficult.

More US cleantech companies close as fundraising challenges emerge

Start-up cleantech businesses that easily raised money from venture firms just two or three years ago are now finding it harder to get hold of fresh cash.

August 2024

Mike Lynch had only recently been acquitted on fraud charges.

Joy for ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ and lawyers ends in superyacht tragedy

Just weeks after a huge courtroom victory, UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among seven people, including a Morgan Stanley executive, missing off Palermo’s coast.

July 2024

Tech meltdown revealed a fundamental flaw in plain sight

The global CrowdStrike breakdown revealed just how much of the global IT system is built on inherently unsafe code.

Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant pose for photographers during their pre-wedding ceremony in Mumbai.

Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding

A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.

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