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Arenadata to buy developer of confidential computing solutions for 1.8 billion rubles
Arenadata has agreed to buy Ubik for 1.8 billion rubles, paying mostly with preferred shares and strengthening its focus on confidential computing and ML.
Softline readies AI cluster for listing: 400 million in dividends and shares
Softline’s «Software Factory» cluster, focused on custom development and AI, will direct 400 million rubles to dividends ahead of its listing and launch a share-based incentive for employees.
Vladimir Potanin: AI will have a strong economic impact for Russia, but will not replace people
Nornickel head Vladimir Potanin believes AI can deliver a major economic impact for Russia if the country backs its own solutions and does not shut itself into technological isolation.
CIA created digital twins of world leaders to forecast Putin and Xi Jinping's moves
The CIA spent two years developing a system with "digital twins" of foreign leaders to model their reactions to crises, negotiations, and political pressure.
Nvidia to invest $2 billion in Nebius and help former Yandex build a global AI cloud
Nvidia is investing $2 billion in Nebius and becoming its strategic partner to accelerate the launch of its AI cloud and the construction of data centers with capacity exceeding 5 GW.
Nvidia resumed H200 production for China after a pause over export licenses
Nvidia restarted H200 production for the Chinese market after a pause caused by export licenses, paving the way for shipments to local AI infrastructure customers to resume.
AI platform developer Andata avoided bankruptcy after layoffs and automation
Andata repaid its debt to the Federal Tax Service a day before the bankruptcy hearing, cut part of its team, and introduced AI into key processes, saying productivity rose 3–5x.
Huawei unveils Ascend 950PR: new AI chip claimed to be faster than Nvidia H20 in China
Huawei plans to ship the Ascend 950PR by the end of March 2026 and claims a nearly threefold advantage over Nvidia H20 in FP4, betting on its own HBM memory.
OpenAI Discusses Buying Fusion Energy for Future AI Networks and Data Centers
OpenAI is negotiating to buy tens of gigawatts of fusion energy — an early bet that future AI models will be constrained not only by chips but also by electricity.
Softline cancels FabricaONE.AI IPO in AI sector after collecting preliminary orders
FabricaONE.AI, Softline's AI division, has abandoned its IPO after collecting preliminary orders and did not announce new timelines, citing external conditions.
RusHydro to allocate almost 100 million rubles for Nvidia H100 servers for AI tasks
RusHydro's IT division is purchasing Nvidia H100 GPU servers for nearly 100 million rubles — a clear signal that major energy companies in Russia are beginning to build their own AI infrastructure.
Bank of Russia Seeks Run:ai Alternative, Prepares Neural Networks for Industrial Scale
Bank of Russia has begun searching for a domestic platform to manage GPU clusters at the level of Run:ai — this may signal a shift by the regulator from AI pilots to mass deployment.
Federal Health Insurance Fund invests 1.9 billion rubles in AI for assessing insured risks
Federal Health Insurance Fund launches digital transformation worth nearly 1.9 billion rubles: regions will implement new subsystems, and in two pilots — AI for calculating risk profiles of insured persons.
VENON Banking Trojan Targeting Latin America Rewritten in Rust Using AI
Researchers discovered VENON banking trojan for Windows: it copies the tactics of popular Latin American malware, but is written in Rust and was likely compiled using generative AI.
China blocks Meta's acquisition of Manus, a profitable AI startup from China
Chinese regulators cancelled Meta's $2.5 billion acquisition of Manus despite the startup's relocation to Singapore, demonstrating that AI companies from China remain under tight state control.
T-Technologies found a way to reduce agreement tendency in GPT and DeepSeek without retraining
T-Technologies' R&D center demonstrated how to test and reduce the tendency of GPT, DeepSeek, and other LLMs to agree with incorrect user assumptions without full retraining.
Anthropic Investigates Leak of Protected Mythos Cybersecurity Model to Private Forum
Anthropic is investigating a possible leak of Mythos — a closed AI model for cybersecurity — which allegedly appeared on a private forum and raised questions about access control.
SpaceX Prepares Own GPUs for AI, Targets Nvidia and AMD Market
SpaceX revealed plans to develop its own AI GPUs, seeking to reduce dependence on external chip suppliers and support the Terafab project ambitions alongside xAI and Tesla.
Softline Values "Software Factory" at 12 Billion Rubles Ahead of AI-Focused IPO
Softline readies Software Factory IPO: placement price set at 25 rubles per share, business valuation at 12 billion rubles, with AI-driven development automation as the stated growth driver.
Axios: Artificial intelligence already costs more than staff at some companies
Companies increasingly discover that implementing artificial intelligence costs no less than—and sometimes more than—payroll: AI models, cloud services, integrations, and quality control are growing more expensive.
Rosatom's OpenAI Rival Hits Snags in Software Registry Bid
Rosatom's new AI platform Cognitron, built on open source, failed to enter the Ministry of Digital Development's registry on the first try. The corporation has filed a second application to work with the public sector.
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video Generator Over High Costs
Just months after launch, OpenAI is winding down its Sora video generator. The project proved too expensive to run, and its projected revenue fell short of the company's expectations.
Russian company builds AI factory with Nvidia chips banned for China
“Speech Technology Center” is investing 210 million rubles in Nvidia HGX H200 servers to train language models.
KPMG Cuts Accountants' Salaries, Citing AI: $59 Thousand Savings
In the world of auditing, significant changes are taking place. KPMG, one of the largest players in this market, recently announced a reduction in the fees charged by its accountants. The reason?
Chinese humanoids conquered the world: 80% of the market already in Beijing's hands
Remember how we were mesmerized for years by Boston Dynamics videos where robots did somersaults and gracefully jumped over obstacles?
AI boom vs. toilets: why there's now no one to fix your tap
AI Boom vs. Toilets: Why No One Can Fix Your Pipes Anymore While we lazily argued in the comments about whether GPT-5 would replace the average junior developer in fintech or when Midjourney would…
EDM 2026: How Neural Networks Will Finally Free Us from Routine Work (and Why It Won't Happen Right Away)
Let's be honest: for the past decade we've been doing nothing but shuffling papers from one box to another, except the boxes became digital.
Robots Are Coming: Industry Flooding Hardware Specialists With Cash
Let's be honest: the dream of a purely digital economy, where everyone does nothing but write code for mobile apps, has officially shattered against reality.
Adobe Burns Bridges: Why Animate Became Redundant in the AI Era
Remember those times when the internet consisted of bouncing buttons, weird cartoons, and games that loaded forever? That was the world of Flash, and it seemed eternal.
Hugging Face: How an AI Platform Became a Warehouse for Thousands of Trojans
While we debate whether GPT-4 will replace programmers or when robots will start brewing our coffee, the true "practitioners" from the cybercrime world are already actively using AI infrastructure…