On December 19, 2019 the Promobot company announced creation of the Russia's first robot for sale of SIM cards. They will be used for commercial purposes since the beginning of 2020.

A famed Russian technical university is helping to lead the government’s push for public-private efforts to develop AI technologies and applications — including a joint project with China’s Huawei — and to stop top talent from flowing to the West.

Joint survey of analytical center TAdviser and Microsoft "Cyber Security in the Russian Companies", devoted to information security in the Russian segment of medium and small business, showed that 76% of the companies for the last year faced incidents in this sphere. At the same time data of Positive Technologies company show that more than a half of respondents of the SMB-companies consider risk of the purposeful attack (ART) of critical, and 80% of the companies are not sure of the readiness to resist to the attacks of this kind.

At the end of November, 2019 the international research and consulting IDC company submitted 10 forecasts of development of the IT industry in 2020.