Wildberries Commission, DDoS attacks on Google, Amazon and Cloudflare: the main thing on October 12

Russia

• Now you can send a parcel with Russian Post without leaving home: the company has offered courier services that will deliver parcels to branches. Residents of cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people will be able to use the new service

Finance

• Megamarket analysts have recorded a doubling increase in online shopping with the onset of cold weather for two years in a row. According to the market, most often in the autumn-winter period Russians buy expensive equipment and household goods.

• Starting October 9, Wildberries introduced a commission of 3% of the purchase price for paying for products with cards of the international payment systems Visa and Mastercard.
• The Ministry of Digital Development called for increasing financing for preferential IT loans by 25% until the end of 2023.
• The limits of microcredits available to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) may increase from the current 5 million to 7 million rubles, Kommersant writes.

Business

• A Moscow court fined Zoom 15 million rubles for repeatedly refusing to locate Russians’ data. For the first time, Zoom was fined 1 million rubles in July 2022 for refusing to localize data.

• The CEO of the investment company Kama Flow, Eduard Adamyan, received a 100% stake in the company Chatme, which develops chatbots for companies. ai. Previously, the project belonged entirely to its founder Sergei Shlykov. Kama Flow said the current changes represent a “technical phase.”

• Electrical engineering company IEK Group acquired the Russian assets of French company Legrand in Russia, TASS reports.
• Berlin-based no-code platform Transactionlink has raised €5 million from Target Global and White Star Capital. The money will be used to further develop the KYB (Know Your Business) function and expand offices in Berlin and London.
• Google, Amazon and Cloudflare reported the largest DDoS attacks that began in late August and are still ongoing, Reuters writes.

• Car-sharing Citydrive has reached an agreement with electric vehicle manufacturer Kama and plans to buy a thousand Atom cars for its fleet of the first production series. The companies will also develop a special digital platform on which the user’s personal settings can be saved.

• The Moscow Stock Exchange expects dozens of small IPOs in 2024. Representatives of the site indicate that the real sector of the economy does not attract enough capital through IPOs and SPOs, however, small companies continue to have interest.

• The company red_mad_robot will invest $2 million in the creation of the NDT laboratory (Neuraldeep.tech), which will develop products based on generative AI. A team of specialists will combine various AI technologies to launch new services.

• The Attorney General’s Office will verify the legality of Wildberries’ actions. We are talking about a 3% commission, which was introduced to the market when paying with Visa and Mastercard cards. The Bank of Russia and Rospotrebnadzor will participate in the inspection.

Technologies

• YandexGPT 2 solved several variants of the Unified State Exam in the literature. The neural network approached the average score of Russian schoolchildren in this subject and exceeded the minimum threshold required for admission to the university. It should be noted that this is the first time in Russia that a generative neural network passed the unified state exam, completing all its tasks, including creative ones.

• Sber taught Kandinsky’s neural network to create animations based on a text description. The Kandinsky 2.2 model generates 4-second videos with a resolution of 640×640 pixels and a frequency of 24 frames per second.