US SEC filing: Microsoft signs a deal worth up to $19.4B through 2031 to receive AI cloud computing capacity from Yandex spinoff Nebius Group; NBIS jumps 50%+
https://nebius.com/... Nebius now in the highest league. … Tom Blackwell : Many people at #Nebius contributed to making this happen, but a huge shout out to our outstanding corporate development team...
Sources and docs: a Russia-based Yandex employee maintains open-source tool fast-glob, embedded in 30 US DOD software packages and downloaded 70M times per week
The package is listed inside Platform One's Iron Bank, a vetted Defense Department software repository, people familiar say.
Researchers detail a technique Meta and Yandex use to glean some logged-in Android users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers via web identifiers
even in incognito mode or with a VPN Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Meta and Yandex Apps on Android Have Been Tracking Users in Newly Creepy Ways Bluesky: Matthew Green / @matthewdgreen : Yuck. Meta apps l...
Avride, a Yandex spinoff, partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for ride hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs in 2025
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Russian search and ad giant Yandex reports 2024 revenue up 37% YoY to a record ~$12.3B and expects 2025 revenue up 30%+, after splitting from Nebius Group
An interview with Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius, formerly Yandex NV, on selling Yandex's Russian business in 2024, competing with US AI startups, and more
My latest Walk With Bloomberg Businessweek: a chat with the founder of Yandex. …
Tass: a Russian court orders Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones
Hide the map! — But sir, they have already bombed it — ... They know where it is! — No matter. Without a map, they will forget! [embedded post]
Amsterdam-based Nebius, which rebranded itself from Russian internet giant Yandex and offers cloud services for AI, raised $700M from Nvidia, Accel, and others
Nebius Group NV, the technology company rebranded from Russian internet giant Yandex, has raised $700 million from a slate …
An interview with Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius, formerly Yandex NV, on selling its Russian assets and pivoting to become a full-stack AI infrastructure provider
Yandex plans to triple its Nvidia GPU deployments
Yandex finalizes a deal to sell its Russian business and renames the new business as Nebius Group; sources say Yandex founder Arkady Volozh will become CEO
Liezel Hill / Bloomberg :