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This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin touched on the future of internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O) in a late night meeting, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Sources told Reuters that Kudrin, one of the country’s top economic officials and a long-time colleague of the president, is expected to leave… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin touched on the future of internet giant Yandex in a late night meeting, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Sources told Reuters that Kudrin, one of the country’s top economic officials and a long-time colleague of the president, is expected to leave his role as head of Russia’s Audit Chamber to take up a position with Yandex. The future of the company, which dominates… Source link

The entire team behind the FTX Future Fund, the Sam Bankman-Fried philanthropy, has resigned in the wake of FTX’s unraveling, leaving many grants unfunded. “We are now unable to perform our work or process grants, and we have fundamental questions about the legitimacy and integrity of the business operations that were funding the FTX Foundation and the Future Fund,” the team wrote in an open letter published online Thursday. “As a result, we resigned earlier today.” The FTX Future… Source link

The 2022 midterm elections had the potential to become one of the biggest days in the sports betting industry, which has been experiencing years of seemingly exponential growth in the market. But Tuesday will likely be when one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. gets a reality check, given that two ballot sports betting measures in California that are expected to fail. California voters will be asked to decide on Proposition 26, which would allow in-person sports gambling on tribal… Source link

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Google’s research arm on Wednesday showed off a whiz-bang assortment of artificial intelligence (AI) projects it’s incubating, aimed at everything from mitigating climate change to helping novelists craft prose. Why it matters: AI has breathtaking potential to improve and enrich our lives — and comes with hugely worrisome risks of misuse, intrusion and malfeasance, if not developed and deployed responsibly. Driving the news: The dozen-or-so AI projects that… Source link

Earlier this month, Google Cloud announced its latest venture within the realm of healthcare: a new Medical Imaging Suite. This initiative builds on years of hard work by the Google Cloud team, aimed at creating a universally friendly, efficient, and value-providing platform, with an ode to interoperability and accessibility. The applications behind the platform are multi-fold: Imaging Storage: the Suite will enable a more comprehensive way to store and access advanced medical imaging … Source link

Netflix (NFLX) shares closed 13% higher on Wednesday following the company’s huge third-quarter earnings report. The platform delivered a beat on both the top and bottom lines, in addition to 2.41 million net subscriber additions — crushing estimates of 1 million. “This company is clearly back on track,” Geetha Ranganathan, senior media analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told Yahoo Finance Live as analysts begin to separate themselves into optimistic and not so optimistic buckets. Following… Source link

Cloud News Mark Haranas October 17, 2022, 11:06 AM EDT Kalyan Kumar, HCL’s global chief technology officer, explains to CRN why his $11.5 billion solution provider is investing in Google Cloud and where the biggest opportunities are ahead. … Source link

AI’s creative abilities are outstripping its driving skills. While self-driving car technology is going nowhere, there’s been a remarkable explosion in research around generative models, or artificial intelligence systems that can create images from simple text. In just the past week, AI researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have taken an extraordinary leap forward, developing systems that can generate videos with just about any text prompt one can… Source link

When David Pierce covered the transitional birth of Google Lens for WIRED in 2017, he pegged the tool as “a long-term bet for the company and a platform for lots of use cases.” In the following years, as Google Lens out-survived other experimental forays, senior writer Lauren Goode wrote about the long journey toward perfecting visual search queries. Five years in, Google Lens remains great for identifying weird plants and helping students power through their algebra homework. The longer… Source link