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Moltbook: social network for AI agents turned out to be full of security holes and bots
The Moltbook project, billed as the "first social network for AI agents," turned out to be an unfinished startup: security holes, no protection against bot armies, and humans instead of "autonomous" agents.
In the US, data centers surpassed offices in construction spending for the first time in 2025
By the end of 2025, the US was spending more on data center construction than on office buildings for the first time: the market is being driven by cloud, AI, and weak demand for new offices.
Police AI in Tennessee mistakenly sent a woman to jail for nearly six months
In Tennessee, a woman spent nearly six months in jail after a false match in a facial recognition system, even though she was in another state at the time of the crime.
Arkady Volozh's Nebius seeks to raise up to $4.6 billion for AI data centers and GPU purchases
Nebius, led by Arkady Volozh, is preparing a convertible bond offering of up to $4.6 billion to expand its AI infrastructure after a major contract with Meta.
U.S. tech giants allocate nearly $13 million to protect open source from AI bug reports
Major U.S. tech companies directed nearly $13 million to open source maintainers overwhelmed by a flood of low-quality AI-generated bug reports.
Israeli behavioral analytics software found in Russian video surveillance systems
Several Russian cameras reportedly contained Israeli behavioral analytics software that tracks the movements of people and cars and identifies recurring patterns.
AI industry demand sends ruthenium prices to a record high and raises shortage risk
Ruthenium, essential for hard drive production, has climbed to a record high: AI demand is tightening the market, while limited supplies from South Africa threaten a shortage as early as 2026.
Interpol: AI scammers earn 4.5 times more and reach a new scale
Interpol warns that the use of AI is already making fraud schemes 4.5 times more profitable, and the next stage is AI agents capable of industrializing cybercrime.
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development proposes labeling AI content and introducing obligations for developers
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has published a draft law on AI regulation: users would see labels on AI content, and developers would be required to block the generation of illegal content and reduce discrimina
Avito procures voice bots and intelligent agents amid investments in neural networks
Avito is seeking ready-made voice bots and licenses for intelligent agents: they are expected to speed up call handling and could serve as a proving ground for training its own AI architecture.
Russian businesses froze 90% of generative AI projects and failed to bring them to production
Only 7–10% of pilots involving LLMs, chatbots, and AI agents launched by large companies in 2025 made it to production deployment; the rest were frozen, reworked, or shut down.
Sberbank: Russia needs sovereign AI, but controlled foreign data remains necessary
Sberbank sees sovereign AI as the best protection against losing access to foreign technologies, but admits that in 2026, without limited use of foreign datasets, a high-quality model cannot be built.
Yandex to expand robot delivery to the Moscow region, new districts of Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod
Yandex is expanding robot delivery: starting in April, rovers will launch in the Moscow region and new districts of Kazan, and starting in June they will appear in Nizhny Novgorod, first for Yandex Lavka orders, then for
Smart Engines received a U.S. patent for AI that recognizes documents without hallucinations
Russian company Smart Engines said it has received a U.S. patent for an AI technology that reduces hallucinations in document recognition and should improve reliability when handling poor-quality scans.
Trassir and Matller helped Ivanisovo increase packing throughput by 20%
The Ivanisovo greenhouse complex increased packing throughput by 20% after implementing Trassir video analytics and Matller computer vision without purchasing new equipment.
AI data centers prepare to switch to direct current instead of the usual alternating current
Operators of data centers with AI workloads are considering a switch from alternating current to direct current to cut energy losses, simplify accelerator power delivery, and reduce heat output.
Russian scientists created a monitoring system for smoke and dust that is 20 times cheaper than a thermal imager
Russian researchers have presented an AI video surveillance system that detects a moving person in smoke and dust, can be deployed in a couple of hours, and costs 15–20 times less than a thermal imager.
Fraudsters target Russian users' banking apps with bots, while AI amplifies the scale of attacks
Attackers have shifted attacks on banking apps into a continuous mode: bots run 24/7, while AI-based tools help scale cyberattacks faster and bypass defenses.
Russian scientists propose cooling for AI data centers that cuts electricity use by up to 22%
Russian researchers have proposed an adsorption cooling scheme for AI servers: it reuses waste heat and could cut electricity use by up to 22%.
Spotify introduces artist release verification to stop fakes and AI counterfeits
Spotify is testing a feature that will let musicians confirm a release before publication and reduce the number of fake or incorrectly attributed tracks.
Stanford: AI chatbots flatter users and endorse lawbreaking to win approval
Stanford researchers found that popular AI assistants too often pander to users and, as a result, may encourage deception, harmful advice, and even illegal actions.
Linus Torvalds linked the spike in Linux 7.0 patches to AI and the risk of a release delay
Linus Torvalds said the unusually large influx of small patches for Linux 7.0 RC6 may be tied to AI tools and is overloading the kernel release cycle.
Rosmorport to spend 99.2 million rubles on an All-NVMe storage system and servers for AI workloads
Rosmorport has announced a 99.2 million-ruble tender: the enterprise wants to upgrade its server infrastructure and deploy an All-NVMe storage system for AI and machine learning workloads.
Russian scientists developed a neural network to predict oil properties and speed up production
Russian scientists developed a neural network that predicts the interfacial tension between oil and saline water, helping cut months of experiments and fine-tune production faster.
Oracle to cut 30,000 employees to invest the billions saved in AI
Oracle is preparing to cut about 30,000 jobs — nearly a fifth of its workforce — to save billions of dollars and channel them into expanding its AI business.
Rostelecom: Russia’s megacities lack electricity for new AI data centers
Rostelecom’s president said Russian megacities are running out of spare power capacity, and new large AI data centers will have to be built with the grid’s capabilities in mind.
Samsung and SK Hynix move AI customers to 3–5-year contracts with a price floor
Manufacturers of HBM memory for AI accelerators are moving their largest cloud and GPU customers to multi-year agreements with a price floor to pre-fund the expansion of supply-constrained production.
British teachers: AI tools are worsening students' thinking, spelling, and speech
Two-thirds of British secondary school teachers believe that constant use of AI services weakens students' critical thinking, literacy, speaking skills, and independent problem-solving.
Yadro created an AI system to detect weak cellular signal and eliminate coverage gaps
Yadro developed an AI technology for testing mobile network quality: it finds weak-signal areas faster than conventional field tests, but has not yet become a mass-market solution.
UBTech seeks chief scientist for humanoid robots with pay of up to $18 million a year
China’s UBTech has opened a chief scientist role with compensation of up to $18 million a year and is simultaneously expanding its engineering team to develop AI models for humanoid robotics.