OpenAI seeks new investments to increase its value to 100 billion dollars, the Russian government approved the idea of international priority development territories (ITOR), whose residents of “friendly” countries will be able to hide information to protect companies from sanctions and be allowed it to grant state loans to countries with low credit ratings according to the version of the international rating agencies Fitch-Ratings, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service. And RB remains attentive to interesting developments in the field of entrepreneurship.
- The share of business trips in the overall structure of tourist flows in 2023 quadrupled due to the popularity of destinations such as China and Turkey.
- The Russian government has made it easier for foreign investors to enter Russia: now states will be able to obtain a loan from Russia regardless of their credit rating according to the international rating agencies Fitch-Ratings, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service.
- Starting in February, the operator of the Belarusian section of the Druzhba pipeline, Gomeltransneft Druzhba, will increase the tariff by 10% (previously it was an increase of 14.5%).
- The government also approved and submitted to the State Duma a package of bills on the creation of international priority development territories (ITOR), whose residents of “friendly” countries will be able not only to launch high value-added projects, but also close information to protect companies from sanctions (the first such special zones will appear before the end of 2024).
- Threads became the most downloaded app on the App Store this week.
- Russians’ foreign currency deposits in November rose for the first time since May 2022, up to $27 billion.
- US Customs has required importers to prove that imported fish and seafood, as well as products obtained during processing, are not of Russian origin.
- Russian Post will receive about 1 billion rubles in 2023 from the sale of non-core assets.
- OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, is in talks for a new round of funding and plans to raise additional funds to reach a valuation of $100 billion, which would make it the second most valuable American startup (after Elon’s SpaceX Musk) (Bloomberg).
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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