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Ukrainian drone strikes have partly disabled an AI data centre operated by Russian digital giant Yandex. The strike on Friday followed an attack on another of the company’s data hubs the previous day, appearing to signal that Ukraine’s military campaign is widening its scope to target Russia’s technology infrastructure. Moscow has previously targeted data hubs inside Ukraine. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3Ex-OpenAI staff say they were fired for raising safety concerns list 2 of 3Is Trump signalling a return to war with Iran after the midterms? list 3 of 3‘Indentured servants’: US green card move will hit thousands of IT workers end of list Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia’s AI development efforts, said its data centre in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow had been struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of action. A day earlier, a Ukrainian attack shut down a major data hub in Sasovo in the Ryazan region, where two of the three supercomputers used to develop the company’s AI models are housed. Yandex, which operates under close government observation, said the attacks had struck at the core of its operations and that it was trying to maintain...