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Russia Today
08-08-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Russian teens sweep gold at global AI contest
A team of Russian middle-schoolers has won eight medals at the second International Olympiad on Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in China, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced on Friday. The team brought home six golds, one silver, and one bronze – the highest number of gold medals among all participants. Launched in 2024, the IOAI presents itself as the world's first high-level academic AI tournament for middle school students. This year's event took place in Beijing from August 2 to 8, bringing together 310 students from 61 countries and regions, including the US, China, India, Sweden, Japan, Poland, Brazil, and the UAE. In the team round, students developed solutions within a simulated smart factory environment, with the top 10 teams seeing their solutions tested on real factory hardware. Russia's team entered the top 10 on day one and finished second overall, while two Polish teams took first and third. The two-day individual round involved machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. Other gold medals went to students from Kazakhstan (3), Poland (3), India (3), Romania, Sweden, Vietnam, China and Japan. Chernyshenko praised the Russian students for their talent, persistence, and knowledge, crediting their success to Russia's strong physics and mathematics schools and ongoing national investment in AI. 'President Vladimir Putin set the goal – Russia should become a world leader not only in creating but also applying AI across all sectors,' he told TASS. 'These students are worthy successors of that tradition.' The victory boosts Russia's total student medal count to 29 across all international competitions so far this year, according to Chernyshenko. Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov also lauded the win, calling it 'an important contribution of education to the future of the economy and digital maturity of the state.' 'I am sure it is these talented kids who will drive science and innovation forward,' he added. The third edition of the IOAI will be held in Abu Dhabi in 2026, hosted by the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Associated Press
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Olympic swimmer from Russia banned 2 years for doping
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian Olympic swimmer Valeriia Salamatina was banned for two years for doping, the International Testing Agency said Monday. Salamatina placed fifth with the Russian women in a storied 4x200 meters freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. All three medalists — China took gold, followed by the United States and Australia — broke the previous world record. She tested positive for the diuretic furosemide in an unannounced sample taken at training in March, the ITA said in a statement. 'Furosemide can be used by athletes to excrete water for rapid weight loss,' the agency said. It also can disguise the presence of other substances. Salamatina did not contest the allegation and 'the case was resolved via an acceptance of consequences,' the ITA said. The 26-year-old swimmer is banned until May 2027. Salamatina also competed in the individual 200 freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics, reaching the semifinals, and took silver for Russia in the 4x200 at the 2018 European Championships. ___ AP sports:
