AI registration to protect the rights of new inventions, Hardy cognac is on sale again: the main thing on September 30

Space

• The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov and American astronaut Nick Haig successfully docked with the ISS. Travel time was about 28 hours.

World

• China’s stock market posted its biggest gain since 2008 after the country’s three largest cities eased home-buying rules and the People’s Bank cut mortgage rates.

Russia

• Starting October 1, 2024, recruits will be able to appeal the decision of the preliminary trial commission through the State Services portal. The decision to write is not suspended.

Investments

• Russian sports technology startup YouChip raised 12 million rubles from VFSO “Labor Reserves” President Ilya Galaev. The funds received will be used to perfect the product and prepare for its market entry in 2025.
• Minority shareholders of the Dutch Yandex NV (Yandex’s former parent company, now called Nebius Group) complained to State Duma deputies that they could not exchange shares for Yandex securities. Because of this, according to investors, the total damage for all shareholders of the IT company amounted to 1 trillion rubles.

Business

• The FAS and its experts study the problem of greenwashing and pseudo-ecological products. They believe that it is important to put an end to these types of cases, as they distort the market situation and mislead consumer expectations.
• Lagoda has become a distributor of French Hardy cognac. The company expects to earn at least 70 million rubles a year.
• Wildberries launched a tracking system in August 2024 to prevent share buybacks and fake large product orders. During the month of operation, it was possible to maintain the availability of goods from 418 sellers and prevent more than 94 thousand similar cases.
• The Russian subsidiary bank of the Hungarian OTP group, OTP Bank, began to return part of the payments of Russian clients to the European Union in euros. This may be due to a sharp increase in the flow of legal entities to OTP Bank after Raiffeisenbank suspended currency transfers for most clients from September 2.
• A government decree has come into force according to which companies and citizens who have applied to register the results of their intellectual activity and their brands can ask Rospatent not to publish data about them in the official gazette until the end of 2025.

Services and technologies

• The Ministry of Energy proposed creating an AI registry to protect the rights of new inventions. It may appear in 2025.
• A Trojan that impersonates automatic notifications from banks has begun to spread in Russia. The virus penetrates devices through phishing links sent by attackers via email or instant messaging.
• A vacancy for an Android developer to work on the “Culture of Government Services” application has appeared on the VK website. It is used to design the “Pushkin Card”.
• E-book reading service Bookmate has changed its name to Yandex Books. Representatives of the platform called this a logical step in the development of the site within the Yandex Plus ecosystem.