The mortgage debts of Russians are growing, the prices of clothes and shoes are increasing, the interest of businessmen in opening fast food franchises is decreasing, Roszdravnadzor refuses to use Botkin.AI, in Chuvashia artificial intelligence is writing an opera and RB continues to follow suit. Most interesting events in the field of entrepreneurship.
- The Czech Republic, following Slovakia, intends to ask the EU to expand imports of Russian oil products given the impossibility of finding alternatives (Lidové noviny).
- Roszdravnadzor suspended the use of the Botkin.AI artificial intelligence system that analyzes CT images, considering it potentially dangerous.
- The volume of Russian mortgage arrears reached a record 75.6 billion rubles in October (RIA Novosti, citing the Scoring Bureau).
- Tesla has made its charging stations in South Korea available to other electric vehicle brands.
- X Corp internal documents show that the social network could lose up to $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year due to the suspension of marketing campaigns by several major brands (The New York Times).
- Mobile traffic in Europe will triple between now and 2028 thanks to the transition to 5G (average monthly consumption is already 56 GB, 2.5 times higher than in 2022). Providers are expected to spend more than €198 billion on network upgrades by 2030 (GSMA report).
- At the end of nine months of 2023, about 68 thousand Russians received citizenship or residence permits from other states (mainly Israel and Turkey), double the number of the previous year.
- Scientists from Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health intend to release the first batch of a domestic express pasteurizer for breast milk in the first half of 2024.
- Interest in opening franchise shawarma establishments decreased between January and October 2023 by more than 20% year-on-year.
- Hive LLC, owned by VimpelCom, acquired 13.3% of the developer of the solution for analyzing audience emotional response, Candy Flip Robots (SPARK-Interfax).
- The proportion of newcomers to CEO positions from spring 2022 to today has reached 40%, and the proportion of women has almost tripled (report by consulting group KFR, formerly Korn Ferry Russia).
- The son of the president of the ECB lost almost all his money due to investments in cryptocurrencies.
- The average price of footwear in Russia increased during the year by 25% (in two years, 51%), that of clothing, by 21% (in two years, 41%) (analysis by My Warehouse).
- The Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater presented the opera “The Main Question” with the participation of a robot artist and based on a libretto partially written using neural networks.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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