Australian Sanctions, “New People” and IT Companies Conditions for Sole Proprietors: The Main Thing July 20

World

• The Australian government has introduced a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus. The sanctions package includes 35 Russian organizations, as well as 10 citizens of Russia and Belarus.

• American scientists have discovered that the accuracy of ChatGPT-4’s mathematical calculations has been drastically reduced for several months. If in March it reached 97.6%, in June it was only 2.4%. At the same time, the previous version of the model, GPT-3.5, on the contrary, began to give more correct answers. In March, the accuracy was estimated at only 7.4% and in June it increased to 86.8%.

Business

• The New People faction proposed extending the conditions for IT companies to individual entrepreneurs. Individual entrepreneurs may receive tax and social benefits.
• Sberbank plans to open a branch in Bangladesh. So far, no concrete decisions have been made in the talks, according to local edition BDNews24.
• Nanolek, co-owned by Vladimir Khristenko, in the first half of 2023 increased supplies under state order by 2.7 times, to 16.61 billion rubles, ranking third among manufacturers due to range expansion, Kommersant reports .

• The Samolet Plus service has become an investment partner of the new building aggregator Dombook, the amount of the investment has not been disclosed. As a result of the collaboration, there will be a unified platform for developers, buyers and real estate agents with a complete database of primary and secondary real estate. It is expected that in the future one in four transactions in the primary real estate market will be carried out through the new service.

• Sber will open an IT center in Bangalore, India. Unlike the bank’s New Delhi office, which offers a wide range of services, the new unit will focus on information technology development. In the future, it is planned to employ up to 200 IT specialists there.

• A branch of the Moscow Israeli cooking network Dizengof/99 has opened in Tashkent. The founders Evgeny Tsyupko and his wife Galina moved to Uzbekistan last fall and already in the spring began work on the opening of the institution. Investments in the project amounted to around $200 thousand.

Services

• Yandex.Food has launched the delivery of various concerts to places. The couriers-partners of the service will take the order directly to the stands. To use this option, you must indicate the address of the stadium in the application, select the podium by geolocation and indicate the sector and row in the comment. It will be possible to place such an order already on July 22 at the concert of the group “Hands Up!” in Luzhniki.

telecommunications

• Until the end of 2023, all Internet traffic in Russia will go through special systems to counter cyber threats (TSPU). If the operators do not do this, they will be fined from 1 to 5 million rubles (in case of repeated violation).
• The Ministry of Digital Development proposes to stimulate the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) by state-owned companies by including such projects in digital transformation strategies, Kommersant writes.