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Curtis Vance
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Bill Gates became the sole trustee of an $89bn endowment, and the document that did it is filed with the foundation's tax return
The foundation's 2024 tax return carries, as a filed attachment, the trust amendment under which Melinda French Gates resigned every position and…
Curtis Vance·6 min
Racing's Safety Bill Is Mostly A Drug-Testing Bill, And The Tracks Pay All Of It
The Federal Trade Commission has opened public comment on the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's proposed 2027 budget of $74,034,117…
Curtis Vance·5 min
FDA Proposes To Strike The Words Animal Test From Its Drug Rules, And Prices The Change At Zero
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed rewriting 38 provisions of its drug and biologics regulations to replace animal testing language with…
Curtis Vance·5 min
Three People Died at Burning Man This Year, and the Cause of None of Them Is Known Yet
The gathering's fortieth year drew more than 60,000 people to the Nevada desert, and the deaths of three men across three consecutive days have…
Curtis Vance·3 min
A Pretraining Researcher Quit Anthropic and 90 Million People Read the Reason
Jacob Coxon spent three years building the capabilities he now says are unsafe, which makes his resignation different from the safety-team departures…
Curtis Vance·3 min