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Larry Ellison Is Spending Billions to Reshape Oxford and His Own Legacy  The Wall Street Journal Oracle billionaire’s institute gives Oxford major grant for AI vaccine research  Financial Times Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University  theregister.com Larry Ellison Wants For-Profits to Solve Big Problems. Here’s What That Mindset Overlooks  Inside Philanthropy Oxford, EIT Address Urgent Problem with AI Vaccine Research  PharmTech …

A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK’s Oxford University. Oxford Vaccine Group is leading the project to study the human immune system’s response to serious bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, targeting diseases including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli. Led …

Army football player Larry Pickett Jr. rescued a man from a burning vehicle early Sunday morning. Pickett, a second-year cadet at the service academy, was traveling with his family when they saw a crashed vehicle surrounded by downed power lines on Route 9W in Fort Montgomery, New York, about five miles south of Army’s West Point campus. The Fort Montgomery …

Figma burst onto the public markets last week, surging in share price by 333% and hitting a market cap of over $70 billion in just the first few days of trading. For investors bullish on startups, last week was a rejuvenation after a sluggish stretch in the IPO market. But for Figma cofounder and CEO Dylan Field, last week not …

David Ellison, son of software centi-billionaire Larry Ellison, nurtured a relationship with Paramount over the past 15 years as a movie producer. His father’s fortune and political status also scored points. The Federal Communications Commission greenlit the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance Media on Thursday, 383 days after the deal was first announced. The merger, which is set …