News about Digitalization
The MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, as well as a number of subordinate bodies and institutions “are subject to reorganization and institutional restructuring”. The aim of the process is to adapt the administrative system to the new responsibilities related to European integration and to the transformations in the agri-food sector.
The Grok Build platform will start publishing daily update reports. The decision reflects the accelerated development of AI tools by Ilon Musk’s company xAI for professional coders and increased competition in the AI coding assistant market.
From September 1, a new training profile “artificial intelligence” will appear in the curriculum of Russian schools, which will be taught as part of the subject “computer science”.
More than 20 thematic events, conferences, interactive workshops and an extended platform for dialog will set the agenda for discussions in the Moldovan education sector from May 20 to 24. The third edition of Education Week will bring together teachers, pupils, students, school principals, as well as national and international experts for five days.
Until June 30 of this year, taxpayers must decommission and deregister expired cash register equipment and replace it with machines connected to the IS “Electronic Sales Monitoring”.
The number of cars registered in Moldova in 2025 exceeded 1.38 million, increasing by 210 thousand units over three years. Dense traffic is especially felt in the capital. In Chisinau, about 400 thousand cars travel daily, which provokes constant traffic jams, worsens the environmental situation and overloads the city’s infrastructure.
The Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization will expand its central apparatus by 33 staff units. The aim of the reform is to strengthen the ministry’s capacity to implement EU legislation and manage new areas transferred to the institution, including tourism and technological innovation.
Almost one million lei is planned to be spent this year from the state budget to create a new information system that will monitor the international restrictive measures applied by Moldova and will allow reporting online about attempts to circumvent them.
Customs is developing modern IT solutions for postal processing in collaboration with UNCTAD and the business community.
Amazon has unveiled Alexa for Shopping, a new AI shopping system that combines the capabilities of the Alexa+ voice assistant and the Rufus chatbot. The service will be able to compare products, track prices, give personalized recommendations and even automatically checkout.
Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization Eugeniu Osmochescu presented the “Reușim!” (“We Can Do It!”) program, a national campaign aimed at Moldova’s economic integration into the European Union and supporting the business environment. The program’s name symbolically includes the acronym “EU,” and its main goal is to prepare the Moldovan economy for EU accession.
Ilon Musk, during a May 18 speech at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, again linked the development of autonomous vehicles, AI and robotics to the long-term future of civilization.
The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) is developing its internal management system based on artificial intelligence, as well as an AI-based internal assistant used for quick access to institutional information, data analysis and processing, integrated SupTech initiatives and digital infrastructure. This was announced by Anca Dragu, Head of the NBM, at the Tech Talks 2026 international conference held in Timisoara, dedicated to the dialog on the role of innovation in enhancing competitiveness.
A multibillion-dollar deal to supply AI chips from Nvidia to a dozen Chinese companies has hung up. The reasons are twofold: Beijing’s stiff opposition and American President Donald Trump’s exotic terms. Although the former also follows from the latter.
Malta will become the first country where the authorities will distribute OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription free of charge to residents. All citizens of the country will have access to the service for a year, but after completing an AI course.
Ilon Musk has rekindled interest in Tesla’s drone technology. This is about a new version of the Full Self-Driving system for electric cars.
The information technology and telecommunications sector is becoming one of the main pillars of Moldova’s economy. Internet, mobile communications, online payments and digital systems directly contribute to economic growth. On World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the authorities emphasized the role of this sector as an “engine” of economic development.
Starbucks is betting on India while continuing its austerity drive. The coffee giant will open its first technology office in the country. The company wants to bring some of its IT development under its own control and refuse the services of external contractors.
Moldovan authorities and international development partners are promoting the expansion of the list of crops produced in our country. The MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry invites farmers interested in growing industrial hemp to a series of regional seminars. Leopold Svatý, a representative of Svatý Sedláček, s.r.o., will be a guest expert. (Czech Republic).
The prospects of Moldova’s future membership in the European Union have long been at the center of discussions – both political and “kitchen” discussions.
