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After several calm days of her legal team calling character witnesses on her behalf and arguing for a lenient sentence, Brittney Griner’s next appearance in Russian court is likely to be a bit more intense. The judge is expected to directly interrogate her on Wednesday, her attorney Maria Blagovolina told Yahoo Sports. Griner faces up to 10 years in Russian prison after she flew into a Moscow airport in February and Russian customs officials allegedly found vape cartridges containing… Source link

The U.S. still remains ‘a ways away’ from reaching an international agreement to impose a price cap on Russian oil exports, with limited enthusiasm from the world’s largest energy buyers India and China, so far, a Senior Biden energy advisor said. But Amos Hochstein, Special Coordinator for International Energy Affairs for President Biden, said he remains optimistic that Russia would ultimately continue its output despite a price limit, in large part because ‘their economy has nothing… Source link

Eight days after Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges, the WNBA star’s attorneys introduced new evidence they hope will result in a more lenient sentence. Lawyers on Friday presented a Russian court with an American doctor’s letter saying that Griner had been prescribed medical marijuana to help her cope with chronic pain from injuries that she sustained during her basketball career. “The attending physician gave Brittney recommendations for the use of medical cannabis. The… Source link

“YaLM 100B is a GPT-like neural network for generating and processing text. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world.” This is the introduction to a groundbreaking open source technology developed by Yandex on and made public on its platform “GitHub” (https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B) on 23 May 2022. The technology is available in the English and Russian languages, leverages 100 billion parameters and is reportedly the largest GPT-like model for… Source link

Russian tech entrepreneur Tonia Samsonova in London on June 19, 2022. Samsonova resigned from Yandex in protest of the company’s refusal to run objective news stories about the Ukraine war. (Mary Turner/The New York Times) What a difference a war makes. Just a few months ago, Yandex stood out as a rare Russian business success story, having mushroomed from a small startup into a tech colossus that not only dominated search and ride-hailing across… Source link

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner sent a letter to Google warning it to be on alert for “exploitation of your platform by Russia and Russian-linked entities,” and calling on the company to audit… Source link

Recently, Russian company Yandex open sourced YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. “By making YaLM 100B publicly available, we hope to give impetus to further developing generative neural networks,” said Petr Popov, CEO of Yandex Technologies. The development comes at a time when several big companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI have open-sourced some of their large transformer-based models. In early 2021, researchers at Google… Source link

Google may have been sharing potentially sensitive user data with a sanctioned ad tech company owned by Russia’s largest state bank until as recently as June 23, according to a ProPublica report. This comes just four months after the Senate Intelligence Committee warned the tech giant to stay alert for possible exploitation by Russia and Russia-linked entities following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Google allowed RuTarget, a Russian company that helps brands and agencies buy digital ads,… Source link

Russian Internet giant appears to be preparing to shift Russian-speaking users to a minimalist home page, after sanctions forced it to sell its media products. The company has been quietly updating its neglected search-only page ya.ru, as a possible replacement for yandex.ru, its current home page, which hosts a mass of content from Yandex social media and news sites. This could be the first step in moving to a more limited and less controversial home page, according to TechCrunch, which… Source link

A Russian-born tennis player changed her nationality to Georgian in order to compete at Wimbledon later this month. Doubles star Natela Dzalamidze, who is currently ranked No. 43 in the world, is now listed under the Georgia flag on the WTA’s website. The move comes after Wimbledon banned all Russian and Belarusian players from this year’s Grand Slam due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Belarus has supported the invasion.) Dzalamidze competed at the French Open under a neutral flag. While… Source link