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Chinese banks and telcos start handing out AI tokens instead of regular cashback
Uzbekistan's installment market to face regulation in 2027. What changes for business and buyers
Central Bank of Uzbekistan launches its own venture fund and innovation hub
AI enters Kyrgyzstan's labor market through functions, not professions
Uzbekistan to Subsidize Half of AI Implementation Costs for Businesses
Kazakhstan banks required to report major IT incidents to ARDFM within five days
Uzbekistan invests $70 million to expand AI computing capacity
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Uzbekistan to attract $6 billion for AI infrastructure by 2030
The government has signed agreements for private investments in 800 MW of computing capacity.
Central Bank of Uzbekistan launches CBU-GPT AI assistant for documents and queries
The Uzbek regulator is deploying artificial intelligence to process documents and automate interactions with financial participants..
Intel's Lip-Bu Tan invests in AI startup NaceAI with Kazakh roots
Bakytzhan Dosa’s project attracts global venture capital.
How much Uzbekistan spends on neural networks: Anthropic and OpenAI enter top 10 foreign services
In six months, residents paid foreign AI companies 113 billion soums..
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Uzbekistan's Tax Committee launches AI SOLIQ platform to automate audits
The regulator deployed its proprietary Soliq LLM language model and machine learning to analyze business risks and speed up tax administration.
Kazakhstan becomes a founding member of the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO)
The republic joins 28 countries to develop global rules for neural network governance. For the financial sector, this is a step toward clear standards in scoring and anti-fraud.
National Bank of Kazakhstan launches in-house AI platform and GPU cluster for supervision and analytics
The central bank deployed proprietary AI infrastructure to monitor the financial system.
IT vendor Rocket Tech shifts internal processes to AI agents, automating 80% of routine tasks
The Kazakhstani developer tested a multi-agent system on its own operations. The company now offers corporate process audits based on its use cases.
72% of Kazakhstanis believe AI protects against scammers, but don't trust it to make payments
A Visa study showed that users actively use neural networks for online shopping, but only 14% are ready to delegate the transactions themselves to them.
Click Launches Personal Financial Profiles: Uzbek Fintech Introduces Product for Customer Segmentation
Click expands its service with a typology of financial profiles to personalize offers.
How Uzbekistanis use search and AI in banking ecosystems
High demand for smart assistants shatters against total distrust in data security.
Central Asia discusses AI regulation in financial markets at the central bank level
EAEU central bank heads include artificial intelligence development and supervision in the advisory council agenda for the first time
"The Black Box Effect": Why Kazakhstanis Distrust Banking AI Assistants
Chatbots are annoying, and AI decisions look like a “black box.” People are only ready to trust the algorithm when they see what the answer is based on.
Kazakhstan plans to raise $75 million from the World Bank for AI and startup development
The funds will go toward creating cloud platforms, robotics laboratories, and venture financing.
Uzbekistan to Create State Venture Funds at Every Ministry
The country is launching a decentralized startup financing model: government agencies will receive at least 10 billion soums each to develop AI and digital solutions for their needs.
Uzbekistan Builds First Regional Green Data Center TAS-1: 12 MW with AI Readiness by December
DataVolt will deploy heavy computing infrastructure in Tashkent’s IT Park. The project aims to support the market’s transition from basic outsourcing to exporting complex IT services worth $5 billion by 2030.