Friday, December 19, 2025

Tech Billionaires Back $1 Billion for CERN’s Next Physics Breakthrough

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Some of the wealthiest individuals in technology including Eric Schmidt and France’s Xavier Niel have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to CERN to fund a proposed successor to the Large Hadron Collider, as the storied research institute turns to private backers for the first time to back future breakthroughs.

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