All of which is good for Burgundy because while general red wine consumption just keeps going down, white is holding firm, and sparkling is going up.
Mr Durov said the arrangement - which is due to last a year - would see his company receive $300m (£223m) in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram."Together, we win!", he
It follows Meta incorporating an AI service into its messaging service, WhatsApp - a development it wasafter grumbling from users.Media analyst Hanna Kahlert at Midia Research told BBC News the move followed the pattern of "social and AI trying to absorb each other".
She said it was not, however, necessarily what customers actually wanted."Users primarily still use social platforms to talk to their friends, and see their friends' updates," she added.
"Adding AI into direct messaging inherently supplants that - it reduces trust between users and distracts from the current USP."
This tie-up brings together two of the most colourful and sometimes controversial figures in tech.At the moment, he said, Russia was building up its forces to an "enormous extent", producing approximately 1,500 main battle tanks every year.
"Not every single tank is going to [the war in] Ukraine, but it's also going in stocks and into new military structures always facing the West," he said.Russia also produced four million rounds of 152mm artillery munition in 2024, and not all of it was going to Ukraine either, added Gen Breuer.
The figures come from German and allied nations' analysts."There's an intent and there's a build up of the stocks" for a possible future attack on Nato's Baltic state members, he said.