You can return money from a Qiwi wallet online, ChatGPT is available without registration – the main thing is April 2

World

• Türkiye is expanding the list of documents to extend a temporary residence permit. Starting May 15, foreign citizens must receive a UETS (national electronic notification system) address. To obtain it, you must go to the post office with your passport and valid residence permit.

• The United States and the United Kingdom have signed the first agreement on AI safety. The parties will jointly develop systems to evaluate generative artificial intelligence models. Microsoft, Google DeepMind OpenAI and others have already agreed to provide data.

Russia

• The HSE has launched a competition on the use of artificial intelligence tools in the preparation of courses and diplomas. Students will demonstrate their skills in using neural networks to solve complex problems and the authors of the top three papers will receive scholarships.

Finance

• Investments in the Moscow economy at the end of 2023 amounted to about 6.8 trillion rubles. Most of the investments went to the production of machinery and equipment.
• Qiwi Wallet users will be able to return money online on the service’s website. Previously, this required sending an application through the Russian Post or visiting the company’s own office.

• The founder of Positive Technologies, Yuri Maksimov, became a billionaire. Since the beginning of the year, shares of the Positive Group holding have increased by 43%. Maksimov became the third Russian businessman to raise that capital through software.

Business

• The FAS has started inspections in the largest retail chains in several regions: they will affect Perekrestok, Magnit, Dixy, Pyaterochka, Lenta, O’Key, Metro and Auchan. The service analyzes the price of chicken eggs throughout the entire supply chain.
• Sber launched a loyalty program for its corporate clients, it was called “SberBusiness Thank You”. The program allows clients in the field of small and micro businesses to accumulate bonuses and convert them into rubles (1 bonus is equal to 1 ruble).
• The number of SMEs in Moscow at the beginning of March amounted to 908,000, an increase of 6.3% compared to March 2023. A third of SMEs are engaged in trade, more than 12% work in the professional, scientific and technical.
• The developer of the MyOffice software, the company New Cloud Technologies (NOT), reduced its revenue by almost 44% and reported a loss in 2023.
• French fashion house Hermès and Italian fashion house Fendi, which temporarily closed their boutiques in Russia two years ago, have finally left Moscow GUM, RBC reported.

Services and technologies

• The Russian online hotel and apartment booking service Ostrovok has changed its name: the company has changed its positioning, logo and visual identity. The rebranding was based on the concept “Oh! Moments” is a collective image of the positive emotions that people experience after a long-awaited vacation and planning a trip.
• Since April 1, OpenAI opened access to ChatGPT to all users without registration. It is currently used weekly by more than 100 million people in 185 countries.

• Marketplaces and retail chains have become leaders in the number of reports of stolen data and access to infrastructure. Hackers steal personal information about customers or access to infrastructure. In the second case, the accesses end up in the parallel market, where the most experienced cybercriminals buy them to carry out large-scale attacks.

Transport

• Sales of passenger cars in the first quarter of 2024 doubled compared to January-March 2023 and exceeded those of 2021, RBC has learned.