The Ministry of Finance intends to raise funds for the budget at the expense of superprofits of enterprises, Microsoft is actively looking for new partners in the field of games, OpenAI is acquiring new investors, Russia is delighted with 100% replacement of aluminum imports, and RB continues to monitor key news events in the field of entrepreneurship.
- Cyprus offered Europe to reduce dependence on Russian gas at the expense of the energy resources of the Eastern Mediterranean: they can cover 15% of the EU’s needs in the next 25 years.
- Due to the new requirements of the Cabinet of Ministers for the disposal of manure (presence of special sites for the storage of animal by-products, laboratory research, prohibition of introducing waste into the soil), farms are under threat of closure: for example, out of 585 farms in the Novosibirsk region, only three comply with the law.
- By the first quarter of 2023, counterfeit banknotes were detected in the Russian banking system 63% less than a year earlier – only 3 thousand counterfeits (mainly 5,000 and 1,000).
- In Italy, a month after the lockdown, the chatbot ChatGPT (Reuters) resumed its operation.
- Its developer, OpenAI, has raised $300 million from new investors (in addition to Microsoft) Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, and K2 Global.
- In Russia, the production of aluminum cans has been completely replaced by imports (Ministry of Industry and Trade).
- Fashion designer Tom Ford has stepped down as creative director of his fashion house (WWD).
- The Rodnikovsky wind farm with a capacity of 71.25 MW in the Stavropol Territory is worthy of Lukoil, since the Italian Enel withdrew from the project.
- The Ministry of Finance has prepared a bill on a one-time contribution of 10% of the surplus profits of enterprises, which could bring about 300 billion rubles to the budget.
- Developer Brave will no longer use Microsoft Bing Search as the default search engine in its software.
- The G7 digital ministers will meet in Takasaki to discuss the application of AI, 6G networks and the security of submarine cables (NHK).
- The net profit of the energy company “T plus” increased in 2022 to 20.9 billion rubles, revenue amounted to 436.5 billion rubles.
- For the first time in many years, Norilsk Nickel’s management proposed to the Board of Directors in 2023 not to pay dividends for 2022 due to “extraordinary circumstances.”
- Microsoft has signed a 10-year agreement with the European cloud gaming platform Nware after the collapse of the agreement with Activision Blizzard.
- The biggest US oil and gas companies, Exxon Mobil and Chevron, posted a profit of $18 billion in the first quarter: more than the same quarter in 2022, but less than the previous two quarters.
- The Ministry of Finance intends to correct the bill withdrawn by the government from the State Duma on changing tax rates for Russians working abroad.
- Today the first flight of the Sochi tourist train left Tuapse for Gagra.
- Horizon Capital raised $254 million from international investors in the new fund.
- The personal investment company Rix Capital, the founders of the game developer Playrix, the brothers Dmitry and Igor Bukhmanov, will settle in London (Bloomberg).
- Scientists from the Mordovian State University have developed a “lightweight concrete” with half the specific gravity of the traditional one.
- In the Russian Federation, sales of new devices on ad portals such as Avito and Yula grew by 18% in the first quarter of 2023 (directly from Apple, they tripled).
- The rarest professions in Russia are the creator of hair for 3D characters and the temple singer (Zarplata.ru).
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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