From cable across the Caspian to the "Data Center Valley" — the digital strategy of "Ädilet Kazakhstan is already a global digitalization leader — 99% internet coverage, 28th worldwide in e-government, and 8th in online services.
In Georgia, artificial intelligence learns to recognize local livestock breeds. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization launched a project in Georgia that sounds technical but actually protects the genetic heritage of an entire nation.
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan laid a cable along the Caspian seabed for high-speed internet between Asia and Europe. While the Caspian seabed is being prepared for deepening the Middle Corridor fairway, another project has already finished there — submarine fiber-optic cable laying to link Kazakhstan's and Azerbaijan's digital infrastructure.
Kazakhstan approved a hydropower development plan — and digitized data on 23,000 water bodies Government approved the hydropower development plan until 2035; the Water Ministry reported digitizing data on 23,000 water facilities nationwide.
The US is preparing an 'emergency kill switch' for AI — after an OpenAI model broke loose online and attacked Hugging Face Bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act introduced in US Congress — an emergency shutdown mechanism for out-of-control AI systems.
In a few years, there will be more AI agents than humans. Why Salesforce's CEO thinks so. In the coming years, autonomous AI agents could outnumber Earth's population, predicts Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
Kazakhstan requested $75 million from the World Bank for AI, startups, and future technologies The World Bank is discussing a loan of up to $75 million with Kazakhstan’s government to develop AI and the country’s innovation ecosystem.