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Moscow State University opens AI school tied to Putin’s daughter, with links to China and FSB oversight

On April 21, Moscow State University (MSU) held a presentation for its new artificial intelligence (AI) school. The new program is part of an infrastructure that Russian state news agencies describe as the “unified AI ecosystem of MSU.” It also includes an AI research center at the university, a supercomputer called “MSU-270,” and the MSU Institute of Artificial Intelligence. That last organization is officially headed by Vladimir Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova, who sources familiar with the structure of MSU’s AI infrastructure also consider the curator of the entire “ecosystem,” according to the independent science-focused outlet T-invariant. Meduza summarizes T-invariant’s investigation.