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The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm

The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm

It’s not a stretch to say that Yandex has a claim to be Russia’s most successful and innovative company. Even Google’s founders were interested in buying it at one time. The company strove to preserve its independence for 25 years, but now that part of its story seems to have reached its end. The Kremlin has long courted the company and soon, in place of founder Arkady Volozh, Yandex will have an entirely new, Kremlin-approved leadership and ownership team. The real beneficiaries of… Source link

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Google cancels contract with an AI data firm that’s helped train Bard

Google cancels contract with an AI data firm that’s helped train Bard

Google ended its contract with Appen, an Australian data company involved in training its large language model AI tools used in Bard, Search, and other products, even as the competition to develop generative AI tools increases. “Our decision to end the contract was made as part of our ongoing effort to evaluate and adjust many of our supplier partnerships across Alphabet to ensure our vendor operations are as efficient as possible,” Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in a… Source link

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FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that ‘advocates abolishing antitrust rules’

FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that ‘advocates abolishing antitrust rules’

Business exclusive By Thomas Barrabi Published Jan. 8, 2024, 4:55 p.m. ET Emails obtained by The Post reveal Federal Trade Commission nominee Melissa Holyoak’s chummy rapport with ex-colleagues at a Google-funded think tank – including one who wrote of the FTC that “burning it to the ground is too good for it.” Holyoak, the Republican solicitor general of Utah, previously spent five years as an attorney for the Competitive… Source link

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Minister Dominic Johnson paid almost £500,000 by firm that invested in Russian search engine Yandex

Minister Dominic Johnson paid almost £500,000 by firm that invested in Russian search engine Yandex

A Government trade minister was paid almost £500,000 last year by the investment firm he co-founded, which continues to hold shares in the firm widely described as “Russia’s Google” despite the war in Ukraine. Dominic Johnson – Lord Johnson of Lainston, who was made a peer when he took up his ministerial post last October – received £471,842 in March last year as part of a £6.49m payout to partners and directors of Somerset Capital Management LLP (SCM). At the time of the payout,… Source link

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Cyber security firm claims data of 2.5 billion Google Chrome users at risk

Cyber security firm claims data of 2.5 billion Google Chrome users at risk

Google Chrome is a web browser used by netizens from across the world. A latest cyber security firm claims to have detected a vulnerability in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers which puts data of over 2.5 billion users at risk. In its blog post, the cyber security firm named Imperva Red has revealed that the vulnerability labelled as ‘CVE-2022-365’, which allows the the theft of sensitive files like crypto wallets and cloud provider credentials. The blog points to a type of file… Source link

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What is Mazars? Meet the accounting firm rocking the crypto world that previously ditched Trump

What is Mazars? Meet the accounting firm rocking the crypto world that previously ditched Trump

Mazars has found itself in the headlines again this year after confirming it’s pausing work for crypto clients, including Crypto.com, KuCoin, and Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. The news rocking the cryptocurrency world comes after the accounting firm in February backed away from another high-profile client — former President Donald Trump. On Friday, Mazars told Yahoo Finance that it “paused its activity relating to the provision of Proof of Reserves Reports for entities in… Source link

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Accounting firm Mazars drops all crypto clients, including Binance and Crypto.com

Accounting firm Mazars drops all crypto clients, including Binance and Crypto.com

French accounting firm Mazars is pausing all its work with crypto firms including, Crypto.com, KuCoin, and Binance, according to a spokesperson for Binance. Mazars has since deleted all crypto reports from its website. In a statement, a Mazars spokesperson told Yahoo Finance the firm, “paused its activity relating to the provision of Proof of Reserves Reports for entities in the cryptocurrency sector due to concerns regarding the way these reports are understood by the public.” Mazars noted:… Source link

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