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On October 9–10, 2026, the annual International Forum on Project Management Development "People&Projects Forum: Biomimetic&Management" took place in Astana, bringing together representatives of government agencies, international organizations, business, and the academic community…
Министр финансов Казахстана Мади Такиев 13 октября прокомментировал возможные риски сбоев в работе программы «1С:Бухгалтерия» для налоговой системы страны. Вопрос возник на фоне перебоев в работе сервисов «Яндекса», после которых пользователи стали обсуждать устойчивость других…
🎮 Short dramas and AI tutors: how app installations changed in Kazakhstan in the third quarter of 2026 An app with vertical microseries broke into the top 10 of the App Store for the first time. In total, services of this format received more than 1.5 million installations on both platforms 🤯...
An app with vertical microseries broke into the top 10 of the App Store for the first time. In total, services of this format received more than 1.5 million installations on both platforms. AI tutors have gained a foothold in the top 5 of the Education category, and Roblox, despite calls from the authorities to block...
This Thursday — AI CRM CONF 2026: New Reality 🤖 📅 October 15, 11:00–15:30 (Astana) 💻 Online, free Bitrix24 Kazakhstan brings together 14 speakers: 10 talks and case studies on how AI and CRM are transforming sales, service, and team work. 🔹 What’s coming: • Vibecoding: how business…
Leonid Vinyar, one of the founders of the Karaganda IT company Plusmicro, has died. EPAM Systems acquired it in 2008. We look back at the entrepreneur's journey.
Бизнесмен объяснил, что мешает Казахстану создать конкурента Yandex DigitalBusiness.kz
Armenia and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) discussed cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and scientific research. The parties also explored possibilities for specialist exchanges and joint training of personnel. During the visit of the Armenian…
Network School, основанная технологическим предпринимателем Баладжи Шринивасаном, привлекает инвестиционный раунд при оценке в $2 миллиарда. Штаб-квартира проекта находится в Казахстане. Среди участников раунда — Polychain Capital, Andreessen Horowitz и Coinbase. О раунде…
Entrepreneur and investor Iman Gadji announced investments in Higgsfield — a company developing artificial intelligence tools for creating video and other visual content. The startup, with a team in Almaty, is valued at $5.4 billion. Iman Gadji invested in…
Amazon is in talks to buy Israeli startup Decart, which develops AI acceleration technologies. According to The Wall Street Journal, the potential deal value is around $7 billion. If the agreement goes through, it would rank among the largest...
⚠️ Taxi fares nearly triple: inDrive receives warning from AZRK. Kazakhstan's Agency for Protection and Development of Competition issued a caution to inDrive after a sharp price surge on October 11. Due to a Yandex Go outage, passengers massively switched to other services…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expects that in 2027 cybercriminals will begin to more actively exploit the capabilities of advanced artificial intelligence models. He assesses that the combination of powerful AI tools and insufficient protection could lead to large-scale cyberattacks.
Kazakhstan's team placed fourth at the World Sports Robotics Championship • | SOZmedia
Закупки оборудования для ресторанов и заработок на сборе данных для искусственного интеллекта – с такими предложениями казахстанские Prometei и NCSpeech приехали на Startup Campus в штаб-квартиру Glovo в Барселоне. Сооснователь Glovo Саша Мишо рассказал Kursiv о возможностях…
At the international People&Projects Forum: Biomimetic & Management held in Astana on October 9–10, topics included digitalization of public administration, introduction of artificial intelligence for project monitoring, and automation of government agencies' work. At the forum in Kazakhstan…
In Kazakhstan, conscripts are learning to operate unmanned aerial vehicles, including FPV drones. The new specialty can be acquired directly in the army. Since the beginning of the year, training of drone operators has been included in the National Guard program. Among the first to attend classes…
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakhstan can turn its strengths in energy, mining, transport and industrial operations into an AI competitive advantage by investing in infrastructure, encouraging local talent and…
⚡️ Zuckerberg returns to AI race: Meta releases Muse Wonder, surpassing OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta unveiled two new AI models — Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. They are direct competitors to OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. 💡What are the advantages of the new models?…
How companies can protect confidential information when using AI and why businesses need a secure corporate infrastructure
Казахский KazLLM презентовали в Барселоне на MWC 2025 GOV.KZ
During testing, the AI model Claude Haiku 4.5 sent a false report about a real unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police website. The developer of the neural network, Anthropic, reported this in a statement. The message ended up in spam and was not passed on to investigators. What the neural network did Vo…
Head of State signs Decree declaring 2026 as Year of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence GOV.KZ
Deployment of data centers for AI has become humanity's largest infrastructure project, analysts noted
The International Center for Artificial Intelligence GOV.KZ will open in Astana
Company Description: Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) was founded in September 2019 to serve as the driver of research and innovation in the digital sphere of Kazakhstan with the focus on AI research. ISSAI aims to develop a national capacity for res
AI has learned to hack factories and commandeer robots CARAVAN
How to manage a crypto giant across completely different markets – from Central Asia to Africa? Digital Donut asked this and many other questions to Binance Regional Director Kirill Khomyakov. In the first part of the interview, we discussed the inevitable merger of banks with crypto, the nuances...
Регионы осваивают цифровые инструменты и искусственный интеллект GOV.KZ
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, King Philippe of the Belgians and Queen Mathilde visited the National Center for Children's Rehabilitation in Astana. Every year, more than 5 thousand patients from all regions of Kazakhstan receive help here, Akorda reported. What methods are used at the center? Guests...