Here's daily briefing for Thursday, August 8th.

Today on Forbes, this secretive billionaire thinks he can cure HIV.

Here's why.

It's opening day at the Reagan Institute's new building, a sparkling

323,000 square foot glass and steel edifice on Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Governor Mora Healy, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft,

and President's past and present of MIT, Harvard,

and Mass General Brigham,

are sipping lemon spritzers and nibbling hors d'oeuvres.

A choir of a dozen scientists and staffers start singing somewhere over the rainbow.

Everyone is here to toast Philip Terry Reagan, the billionaire founder of software company Inter Systems, and his wife, Susan, also an executive at the firm.

The Reagan's have donated $400 million for research to harness the immune system to fight disease.

Soon, instead of singing, these same scientists will be running experiments in a bid to cure one of the world's most

elusive viruses, HIV.

Giving a rare interview, Reagan, who is 74 years old, says, quote,

we started to evolve this whole idea of a Manhattan project on HIV.

Reagan is referring to America's massive R&D program

to build the first atomic bomb during the Second World War.

Reagan, who is the sole owner of Inter Systems and is worth an estimated 3.1 billion

dollars, believes, despite all good evidence to the contrary, that we are on the cusp of a similar scientific

breakthrough when it comes to curing the estimated 39 million people worldwide living with

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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