The APEC forum ended, Sam Altman was removed from Open AI, large corporations refuse to advertise on the X network due to Elon Musk’s position, and RB continues to monitor the evolution of global and domestic entrepreneurship.
- The Czech Republic asked the EU to extend permission to import products from Novolipetsk Steelworks until 2028 due to difficulties in finding alternative suppliers.
- One day before the suspension of work at several checkpoints on the border with the Russian Federation, 163 immigrants out of 335 for the year arrived in Finland (for comparison: on November 16, 26 people applied for asylum, on the day previous – 75 ).
- The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) concluded by publishing a statement on “the determination to create a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, inclusive and predictable trade and investment environment” (the document does not mention military conflicts).
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and company co-founder Greg Brockman were fired by the board due to “loss of trust”; the technical director became the acting head of the company.
Mira Murati . - Apple, Disney, Lionsgate, Paramount and Sony Pictures have suspended advertising on Elon Musk’s Network X due to the ad’s proximity to far-right publications.
- The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has assigned Hidemy the status of a foreign agent. Red Ltd. (HideMy. name of the service) for distributing “inaccurate information about the policies of the Russian authorities” on Telegram, this is the first foreign agent among VPN providers.
- The Energy Ministry announced that the Russian government had lifted a temporary ban on gasoline exports due to a surplus of fuel and a “significant decrease” in wholesale prices; The ban had been in effect since September 21.
- Active purchases of apartments at the excavation stage with the aim of reselling them later caused a rapid increase in prices due to a reduction by almost a third in the supply of objects in the initial stages of construction.
- The Cabinet of Ministers signed a resolution giving Roskomnadzor the authority to block resources with the publication of detailed information on the methods and means of bypassing the blockage. The document will come into force on December 1.
- The former director of legal support and corporate governance of the state corporation Rostec, Alla Laletina, faces a sentence of ten years and a fine of three times the amount of the violation. Bribery case worth 67 million rubles. of the director of the Novosibirsk artificial fiber plant, JSC, has been discussed since July last year.
- Due to falling demand, Volkswagen is cutting production of electric vehicles at its largest plant in Germany.
- Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said that by the end of 2023, the number of rooms in modular hotels in the country will increase by almost 6 thousand.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB

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