The owner of xAI suddenly ended a months-long legal process with Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the G7 countries and the United States announced new sanctions packages against the Russian Federation and third countries, salaries in IT and tourism are growing in Russia, and RB continues to follow news that is interesting for entrepreneurs.
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In the world
- The United States announced plans to impose sanctions on Chinese companies for supplying chips to the Russian Federation (Bloomberg). And EU countries intend to impose a 25% tariff on the import of Chinese electric vehicles and are also preparing a new package of sanctions (including against Sovcomflot).
- The Swiss company Swixx BioPharma has stopped supplying Humalog insulin to Russia by decision of the American manufacturer Eli Lilly (Kommersant).
- Another company announced the termination of long-term contracts with Gazprom Export for the supply of gas. This is the German energy corporation Uniper.
In Russia
- Average salaries in IT for two years increased by 15% to 244 thousand rubles per month (Izvestia). Above all, from 1C developers.
- The share of fakes on the Russian dietary supplements market is approximately 15%. This was reported by Roskachestvo.
- The demand for specialists in the field of tourism and hospitality (“Avito work”) increased by 31%. And average salaries increased by 19%.
- The general director of the nationalized Chelyabinsk electrometallurgical plant, Pavel Khodorovsky, was arrested in the pedophile (SC) case.
in business
- Six out of ten Ozon sellers hire employees: in total they created more than 630 thousand jobs. Staff salaries cost from 80 thousand rubles per month.
- Apple will allow users to opt out of the ChatGPT integration. To address AI privacy concerns.
- Elon Musk suddenly drops his case against OpenAI. The reason for this decision was not indicated in the lawyers’ statement.
- In the Russian Federation, support for small and medium-sized publishing businesses has been extended for three years.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB

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