News about Artificial intelligence
Russian universities may return to the practice of oral defense of diplomas amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, said that traditional written work is becoming less and less reflective of students’ real knowledge, as modern AI services are able to create high-level texts in a matter of minutes.
Samsung Electronics has agreed to pay bonuses to employees at a unit in South Korea, under which engineers working on AI chips will be able to receive up to 600 million won (about 347 thousand euros). This is the result of an 18-day strike.
Global energy inflation will be delayed for a longer period of time due to the conflict in the Middle East and supply disruptions. Experts forecast that high oil and gas prices will act as a driver of overall price growth and stagflationary processes until at least the end of 2027.
The company introduced paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp – Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus and WhatsApp Plus. In parallel, the company is testing tariffs for authors, businesses and users of AI services.
The problem of financial pyramids and fraudulent schemes in the online environment is back on the agenda of the legislative body. Grigore Novak, an opposition MP and chairman of the commission for human rights and interethnic relations, demanded official explanations from the Interior Ministry’s leadership regarding the measures taken against platforms that promise quick earnings but “deprive citizens of their last savings”.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the European economy in 2025 rose by 56% to $239 billion, according to data from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). However, this surge is caused by specific factors and hides a decline in the real investment sector. Major cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) accounted for most of the growth. Much of the capital came from corporate restructuring and transit financial flows.
Bank Goldman Sachs raised its year-end forecast for the S&P 500 index from 7,600 to 8,000 points. The bank attributed this to strong corporate reporting for the first quarter and improved profit expectations for U.S. companies.
Against the backdrop of growth in the main stock exchange indices of major stock markets, bitcoin’s dynamics are lagging far behind. Experts attributed this to record capital outflows from exchange-traded funds and a shift in investors’ interest in the AI sector
A Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Charter was signed between Armenia and the United States. The document was signed by Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Teachers from Moldova will have the opportunity to participate in internships in South Korea within the KLIC 2026 (Korean digital-Learning Improvement Cooperation) program, launched by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Moldova in partnership with the Jeju Province Special Directorate for Education.
SpaceX CEO Ilon Musk said that the deployment of solar generation in orbit will continue to grow at a tenfold rate over the next few years. The occasion was a post about the development of the Starlink satellite system and increasing the capacity of its orbital solar panels.
Large technology companies and enterprise AI users are increasingly facing unexpectedly high costs to operate generative models and AI tools. And this puts them facing a difficult choice – return to “natural intelligence” or further develop an AI-centric business model.
At the annual Google I/O 2026 conference, Google Corporation announced a large-scale integration of artificial intelligence into search, advertising and user services. The company actually confirmed the transition from classic Internet search to an AI-response model, which could radically change the media, SEO and digital advertising market.
Ilon Musk once again intervened in the discussion about corporate taxes in the United States, supporting the publication that high taxes encourage companies to move their business to states with a more lenient fiscal regime. The topic once again aggravated the dispute over the future of California as the main technological center of the United States.
The AI Index 2026 report by Stanford University showed that the technological gap between the leading AI models of the US and China has almost disappeared. At the same time, American companies invest almost 23 times more than Chinese companies in AI development.
Architech AI has developed the KodikScan service, which, according to the creators’ idea, should help users to distinguish real materials from those generated or altered by neural networks.
For several years now, a significant part of Chinese youth, disillusioned with their economic prospects, has been adhering to the principle of “lying down”, i.e. refusing in principle to engage in career competition (the notorious “rat race”).
The Republic of Moldova, according to Microsoft, ranks 60th out of 146 countries in the world in the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI).
Zoom Video Communications has received about $1 billion in unrealized gains from an early investment in artificial intelligence developer Anthropic.
Agriculture, construction and HoReCa are recognized as the main risk areas for human rights in Moldovan business. Such conclusions are contained in the national baseline study “Business and Human Rights”, which was presented at the hearings of the Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights and Interethnic Relations.
