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Kazakh economists told a correspondent of the Kazinform agency how the return of Donald Trump to the White House may affect the tenge exchange rate in the future.
At the end of last year, the dollar exchange rate in the exchangers of Kazakhstan exceeded 530 tenge.
Chinese marketplaces are killing Kazakhstan's SMEs-publications with such headlines have periodically appeared in local media over the past year. In Russian, by the way, too. What is behind the information attacks on Chinese platforms, with what results does e-commerce end the year in the country, and what problems should actually be solved? Read about this in today's TAJ.report analysis.
Material No. 7, the final material in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Japan is launching a five-year program to develop a national multimodal AI model for robots and autonomous manufacturing: 378.3 billion yen in the first year, annual stage-gate audits, and the transfer of trained weights to the entire ecosystem. We break down the program based on primary sources — and what Kazakhstan should take note of.
By Decree of the President No. 1311 of 9 June 2026, the Nationwide Strategy for Large-Scale Digitalization and the Comprehensive Deployment of AI Technologies, “Digital Qazaqstan,” was approved until 2029. TALAP analyzed the document: what goals and indicators it sets, how it differs from previous programs, and what it means for citizens, business, and the state.
The third material documents a practical test of the approach against the economic agenda of Q1 2026.
The fourth material concludes the series on the development of the TALAP Center’s Expert Signal Radar. The infographic shows how expert data move from the initial corpus to signal nodes, the radar, cascades, and management interpretation.
