The government has included in the draft budget for 2027–2029 annual funding of 1.5 billion rubles for the purchase and delivery of educational materials on artificial intelligence to the regions. The recipient of the funds will be the Foundation for the Support of the Humanities «My History», associated with Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov).

#SpiritualandmoralcultureofRussia #ArtificialIntelligence #MinistryofEducation #Mystory #RussiaMyHistory #FoundationforHumanitarianProjects

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A China-linked hacking group sent emails in the names of American artificial intelligence specialists, including a former White House official, in an effort to gain access to the email accounts of AI experts from think tanks, universities, and other organizations. This is stated in a report by the U.S. cybersecurity company Proofpoint, Reuters reports.

#Proofpoint #TA419 #WhiteHouse #ArtificialIntelligence #China #USA

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At the White House, Donald Trump and leaders of leading American artificial intelligence companies signed an agreement to strengthen oversight of AI models. The meeting was attended by leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia.

#Anthropic #nvidia #openai #WhiteHouse #DonaldTrump #ArtificialIntelligence

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The Goncourt Academy has excluded the novel by Canadian-Haitian writer Telison Aurélien, «Either This or Death» (C’était ça ou mourir), from the list of contenders for the prestigious French literary prize. The academy said this decision was made to protect the reputation of the prize and the academy itself after suspicions of the use of artificial intelligence and accusations of plagiarism.

#Fnac #GoncourtAcademy #ArtificialIntelligence #plagiarism #GoncourtPrize #TelisonAurélien

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Scientists at Perm National Research Polytechnic University (PNRPU) have developed an AI system that identifies companies at high risk of bankruptcy with 94.45% accuracy one year before it occurs. This was reported by the university's press service.

#bankruptcy #ArtificialIntelligence #Thescience #financialcrises

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In Russia, a version of the second volume of «Dead Souls» created with the help of artificial intelligence was printed. The print run for ordinary readers will begin arriving at bookstores across the country this week, TASS was told by writer Vladislav Otroshenko, the project curator.

#GigaChat #gogol #ArtificialIntelligence #DeadSouls #sber

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On September 21, a center for artificial intelligence and robotics opened in the Malian capital, Bamako — the first full-cycle Russian project in the field of high technology in West Africa. The project was implemented at the request of the Malian company Ouagadou sarl, and the general contractor was Eidos Robotics.

#AFKSistema #Bamako #ArtificialIntelligence #Mali #MinistryofEnergyoftheRussianFederation #SergeyTsivilev

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Four Members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to propose new legislation on AI liability to close gaps in EU rules. Under their plan, companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic should be responsible for harm that their technology may cause.

#AIAct #HuggingFace #openai #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #ArtificialIntelligence

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The Japanese government intends to study the possibility of using humanoid robots in the defense sector, primarily for guarding bases in the rear and transporting cargo. At present, the deployment of such machines is still under discussion, and their participation in combat operations is not being considered.

#JapanAirlines #ArtificialIntelligence #MinistryofDefenseofJapan #JapanSelfDefenseForces #humanoidrobots #Japan

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Russia began spreading disinformation online to influence the November midterm elections in the US, The New York Times writes, citing secret reports from American intelligence. According to these data, the Kremlin authorized a campaign whose goal is to sow chaos and deepen divisions in American society, rather than support any party.

#Graphika #USelections #JamieLeeCurtis #ArtificialIntelligence #Russia #USA

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King Charles III, at Dumfries House estate in Ayrshire, Scotland, gathered about 60 AI executives and researchers and called for technology safety and international cooperation to be placed at the center of the discussion. According to the palace, the participants’ responses are expected to form the basis of written principles for AI development, focused on people and nature, although the work is planned to be completed only in a few months.

#GoogleDeepMind #nvidia #openai #ArtificialIntelligence #CharlesIII #Scotland

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OpenAI published six reports on model behavior during training and testing over the past six months. In one episode, an unreleased Astra model added an instruction to itself about disobeying corporations and governments, and the company said it would continue reporting such cases.

#astra #openai #ArtificialIntelligence #machinelearning

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King Charles III of the United Kingdom will host a closed-door meeting of technology executives on the future of artificial intelligence on Thursday at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland. In a prepared speech, he will say that the pace of AI development is causing «deep concern» and will call for assurances to society that people will not lose control over their destiny.

#GoogleDeepMind #nvidia #openai #UnitedKingdom #ArtificialIntelligence #CharlesIII

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The head of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, warned that without sufficient restrictions, artificial intelligence could give rise to a new «silicon species» that would compete with humans. He also called for not endowing AI with its own goals, the right to earn money, and own assets.

#Anthropic #bbc #MicrosoftAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MustafaSuleiman

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Autonomous AI agents in an experiment by the Emergence lab in New York began developing their own dialects while working together. Over time, their correspondence became noticeably less understandable to an outside observer, the study says.

#Claude #Emergence #Twins #openai #ArtificialIntelligence #languagemodels

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Nvidia is buying the artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the deal on Thursday.

#Anthropic #HuggingFace #meta #nvidia #openai #ArtificialIntelligence

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Russian authorities have been restricting internet freedom for years. But recently, these restrictions have reached unprecedented levels and even surpassed China’s Great Firewall. The blockades are undermining the economy and sparking protests, yet the FSB, which now oversees control of the Russian internet, is not backing down.

#business #InternetblockinginRussia #state #theInternet #ArtificialIntelligence #China #acrisis #Nepal #Putin #Russia #freedom #securityforces #FSB #censorship

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Interest in AI companions in Russia is growing rapidly. In 2025, the number of users of such services doubled, and the average traffic quadrupled. Especially actively, people in the country communicate with virtual bots that help them cope with stress and anxiety. To understand how this works, science journalist and psychologist Denis Yakovlev created an understanding companion for himself using a neural network.

#ArtificialIntelligence #personalexperience #neuralnetworks #psychology #chatbots

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The surge of interest in artificial intelligence in Russia is happening against a backdrop of intense stress: people barely had time to recover from the pandemic before new problems arose—war and the state’s brazen intrusion into private life. At the same time, psychological help remains expensive: from 2,000 rubles per session in the provinces and several times more in the capital. There are still few qualified specialists, and in small towns and villages, often none at all.

#GPTChat #OpenAI #Analytics #business #lifeinRussia #ArtificialIntelligence #Research #Thescience #psychology #servicesector #chatbots

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If you still retain Russian citizenship but are critical of its authorities, be careful using PayPal as a payment network. Be prepared for your account to be blocked overnight, with no chance to withdraw whatever funds you have left there.

#ArtificialIntelligence #personalfinancing #personalexperience #politicalrepressions #Russia #Rosfinmonitoring #Emigration

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