The Montreal-born entrepreneur posted on X that he’s had a difficult case of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) that has led to chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Experimental treatments have left him “largely dysfunctional,” he wrote, but he’s hoping to extend his life beyond the months to perhaps a few years he could otherwise expect. (The Logic)

Talking point: Skoll graduated from the University of Toronto before he moved to the United States and made his name as the first president—and first full-time employee—of eBay. He became a venture capitalist, philanthropist and movie producer, whose credits include An Inconvenient Truth, Syriana and When They See Us. He shut down his studio, Participant, in April last year, after a 20-year run. EBV is a common germ in the herpes family that causes cold-like symptoms and, in a few cases, mononucleosis. It can also, however, lodge permanently in bone marrow and contribute to the genesis of cancer over time, similar to the way the chicken pox virus—another type of herpes—can re-emerge as shingles.