Hello! This week we outline where Russia sits in the global AI race, and its latest efforts to exert control over the homegrown Kremlin-approved AI industry.
Sovereign AI
While OpenAI is trying to secure White House support in return for a 5% stake, in Russia, the authorities are exerting full
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Alexandra Prokopenko and Alexander Kolyandr and brought to you by The Bell. This week we look at a new wave of Russian economic newspeak — euphemisms deployed to cover up the reality of a slowing economy.
Russia’s economic
The Bell was founded in 2017 by journalists Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Irina Malkova and Peter Mironenko as a news outlet independent from the Russian authorities, after its founders have been sacked as top editors at the largest Russian news website RBC because of pressure from the Kremlin.
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