Russia has approved a package of bills to cap annual cryptocurrency purchases by ordinary citizens at 300,000 roubles and to limit non-professional investors to high-liquidity cryptocurrencies pre-approved by the central bank. The cabinet also backed licensing rules for platforms, exchanges and other intermediaries, while banning trades outside authorised brokers. Overseas purchases would be partly allowed but must be reported to the Federal Tax Service.

Dropbox is stepping up its push into the architecture, engineering and construction market, saying firms need to move data from on-premises systems to the cloud before adopting AI. Executives said demand is rising as project data surges, ransomware threats become constant and distributed work expands. Dropbox highlighted block-level storage, peer-to-peer transfers and long file restoration periods as differentiators, and cited examples in New Zealand and South Korea for its AI search tool.