Wendy Schmidt on philanthropy, technology and unexplored oceans
Philanthropist and investor Wendy Schmidt founded the Schmidt Ocean Institute in 2009 with her husband, Eric, former CEO of Google. Here, Wendy tells Trudy Ross…
Philanthropist and investor Wendy Schmidt founded the Schmidt Ocean Institute in 2009 with her husband, Eric, former CEO of Google. Here, Wendy tells Trudy Ross…
While technology experts sound the alarm on the pace of artificial-intelligence development, philanthropists — including long-established foundations and tech billionaires — have been responding with…
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Wendy Schmidt describes her philanthropy and investing as focusing on the interconnections between human activity, the land we live on, and the oceans we depend…
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Wendy and Eric Schmidt, Kjell Inge Røkke, Andrew and Nicola Forrest, Victor Vescovo and Agnès Troublé are among those who have formed the loose coalition, comprised mainly of privately funded institutions,…
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High-dollar philanthropists made a lot of headlines in 2022, but not in ways they might have hoped. Between the widely reported Sam Bankman-Fried fiasco, Zuck’s…
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Year Rank Total giving Biggest Gift(s) 2024 13 $250,000,000 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation ($249 million) and Schmidt Family Foundation ($1 million)…
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The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is launching a new, $300 million initiative that applies advanced computer science to some of the hardest problems…
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Like many people who grew up during the 1970s, Wendy Schmidt watched The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. She followed that great explorer and conservationist into the…
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The U.S.-based 11th Hour Racing Team won the around-the-world Ocean Race on Thursday, thanks to a jury that awarded the hobbled sloop the equivalent of…
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Humans are starting to use the sea more as farmers than as hunters, says Hal Hodson In the summer of 1942, as America’s Pacific fleet…