Bitcoin growth and demand for hamburgers, news from OpenAI, Anthropic, Pobeda and Muztorg: the main thing for business on November 9

In Russia

• Central Bank of the Russian Federation: The dynamics of financial flows in October indicate a slowdown in economic activity. The volume of payments, financial and investment flows decreased, with the only exception of consumer demand due to rising prices in retail trade.
• Hamburger restaurants have become the most popular restaurant format. One in two Russians (49.2%) visited a burger restaurant (Romir) between July and September 2024. Less popular are canteens (23.6%), bakeries (20.4%), pizzerias (20.1% ), bars and restaurants (17.4%), sushi and rolls (14.7%), cafes (6.3%), as well as Russian food. fast food (pancakes, meatballs – 4.5%). In total, according to the study, the HoReCa segment recorded a turnover of more than 1.6 trillion rubles for nine months of 2024, the best figure in the last five years.

• Roskomnadzor has recorded the leak of more than 600 million personal data records since the beginning of the year. Of those, 500 million were connected as a result of an incident.

• In eight months, Russia bought rice from Kazakhstan worth $11.7 million, 22% more than in 2023 and the highest since 2022.
• MTS Defender Product Director Andrey Biychuk warned of a new round of fraud under the pretext of calling public services. Customers are asked to register for meter replacement through an “e-queue” by entering the SMS code (which actually gives them access to “Government Services”).
• The interest of Russians in hybrid cars will increase by 38% in 2024. The share of Chinese brands in this segment is 93%.

• The Wall Street Journal claims that Russian authorities want to unite the country’s largest oil companies into a single “megaproducer” through Rosneft’s acquisition of Gazprom Neft and Lukoil. The Kremlin, Rosneft and Lukoil deny the information.

• More than 100 drivers and their assistants work in the Moscow metro. This is almost double that of 2023.

• The Russian film distribution market is 79% supplied by domestic films. At the end of October 2024, Russian films accounted for 29.5 billion rubles and 83 million viewers.

in the world

• On the night of Friday to Saturday, the price of Bitcoin reached a new all-time high. According to Binance, it exceeded 77 thousand dollars.
• FT: Trump wants to reappoint Robert Lighthizer as US Trade Representative (the media calls him the “trade czar”). Lighthizer himself aspires to the position of Secretary of Commerce.
• Anthropic has announced partnerships with Palantir and Amazon Web Services. Its AI model, Claude AI, will now be used in the analysis of classified US intelligence materials.
• Arianespace announced the first commercial launch of the European Ariane 6 rocket. It is expected in early 2025.

• The head of Binance predicted a “golden age” for the cryptocurrency business under Trump. Representatives of the aerospace sector have a similar attitude.

• Tencent, in partnership with Visa, is launching a payment system with biometric fingerprint authentication in stores and restaurants in Singapore. This is the first expansion outside of China.

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for a reform of the global financial architecture, taking into account the interests of Africa.

• SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft adjusted the orbit of the ISS for the first time. To do this, he turned on the engines for a strictly defined time.

• A US federal judge in the state of California ruled that the CEO of Meta Platforms (recognized as an extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), Mark Zuckerberg, is not personally responsible for 25 lawsuits alleging the obsession of children and adolescents with the networks social. This does not prevent judicial investigations from being initiated against the company itself.

in business

• The ECB requires UniCredit and Raiffeisen to create a financial cushion in case of risks arising from work in the Russian Federation. In Europe they believe that banks cannot fully control their activities in the country.
• OpenAI fixed the ChatGPT bug within half an hour (the problem peaked at 03:13 Moscow time). The company provides such data on its issue reporting page, but in reality it took longer.
• The court prohibited Pobeda from automatically marking the boxes indicating the passenger’s consent to insurance. The August 22 decision came into effect on November 8.

• HeadHunter named the highest salaries in IT: DevOps engineers are offered 234.4 thousand rubles. The work of data scientists (213.1 thousand rubles) and game designers (113.4 thousand rubles) is also well paid.

• Lilian Weng, principal security researcher at OpenAI, announced that she is leaving the startup. Your last day of work will be November 15.
• The music store chain Muztorg will create its own brand, Emotive. There are plans to produce digital pianos and guitars; the manufacturer may be a company from China.
• The Ministry of Digital Development wants to force state corporations to bring in-house IT products to the market. Or lose a place in the Russian software registry.

• To promote its November sales, the Avito service came up with a “star fall.” Ksenia Sobchak, Vika Chuma, Danya Kraster, “Likhoy Topor”, Ksenia Dukalis and others will put their items on sale.