Phytophthora blight on tomato

 

Phytophthora on tomatoes refers to diseases caused by oomycetes, also known as water molds, particularly Phytophthora infestans which causes late blight, and Phytophthora capsici which can cause buckeye rot and foliar blight. These diseases manifest as lesions on leaves, stems, and fruit, often leading to rotting and eventual plant death. Management strategies include using resistant varieties, improving air circulation, avoiding overhead watering, and applying fungicides.

Key points about Phytophthora on tomatoes:

 

    Late blight (Phytophthora infestans):

    This is the most common and destructive form of Phytophthora on tomatoes. It's characterized by dark, water-soaked lesions on leaves and stems, which can quickly spread and cause the plant to collapse. Infected fruits develop greasy, brown spots and can rot.

 

Buckeye rot (Phytophthora capsici):

This disease typically affects fruit in contact with the soil, causing tan or brown spots with concentric rings.

Other Phytophthora species:

Phytophthora capsici can also cause foliar blight with greasy, purple-brown stem lesions and leaf spots.

Favorable conditions:

Phytophthora thrives in cool, moist environments, particularly during periods of rain and high humidity.

Management:

 

    Resistant varieties: Planting tomato varieties with resistance to late blight can significantly reduce disease incidence.

 

Cultural practices: Improving air circulation by spacing plants adequately, avoiding overhead watering, and removing infected plant debris can help limit disease spread.

Fungicides: Applying preventative and effective fungicides, especially during periods of high risk, can help protect plants.

Crop rotation: Rotating crops with non-host plants can help reduce pathogen buildup in the soil.

Sanitation: Removing and destroying infected plant material can help prevent further spread.

 

Specific symptoms to look for:

 

    Leaves:

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Water-soaked or brown lesions, sometimes with white mold (sporangia) under humid conditions.

Stems:

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Brown lesions, often greasy or water-soaked, and can lead to stem collapse.

Fruit:

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Brown or black spots, sometimes with concentric rings (buckeye rot), or greasy, brown, sunken lesions (late blight).

 

Important note: While unblemished fruit from infected plants is generally safe to eat, it's best to avoid holding it for extended periods or canning/freezing it, as this can promote microorganism growth.

Sewerage repair without demolition: new generation technologies in Lithuania

 

When faced with sewer line issues, homeowners and businesses can explore trenchless sewer repair as a less disruptive and often more efficient alternative to traditional methods that involve extensive digging and demolition.

What is Trenchless Sewer Repair?

Trenchless sewer repair utilizes advanced technology to repair or replace damaged pipes with minimal or no digging. Instead of excavating a long trench to access the sewer line, small access points are created, often at existing manholes or cleanouts.

Common Trenchless Methods:

 

    Pipe Lining (CIPP - Cured-in-Place Pipe): This involves inserting a flexible, resin-soaked tube into the damaged pipe. The tube is then inflated and the resin cures, creating a seamless, durable "pipe within a pipe" that adheres to the inner walls of the original pipe. This method is suitable for pipes with minor to moderate damage.

    Pipe Bursting: This technique is used for more severely damaged or collapsed pipes. A bursting head is pulled through the old pipe, fracturing it and pushing the fragments into the surrounding soil, while simultaneously pulling a new, typically HDPE (high-density polyethylene) pipe, into place. 

 

Benefits of Trenchless Sewer Repair:

 

    Minimal Disruption: No need to extensively excavate your yard, driveway, or landscaping, preserving your property.

    Faster Completion: Most trenchless repairs can be completed in a day or two, compared to days or weeks for traditional methods.

    Cost-Effective: While upfront costs may vary, overall costs can be lower due to reduced labor and restoration expenses.

    Durability: The materials used, like cured epoxy resin, can create long-lasting solutions, with some pipes lasting 50 to 100 years.

    Environmental Benefits: Reduced excavation means less disruption to the environment and potentially less soil erosion.

 

In summary, trenchless sewer repair techniques provide a less invasive and often more efficient way to address sewer line problems, minimizing disruption to your property and offering a durable, long-term solution.

 

It is available in Lithuania too:

 

“Advertisement of the company "Centina"

Repair of sewage pipelines often becomes a headache not only for homeowners, but also for companies. However, modern technologies allow this to be solved without demolition and dismantling - the work can be done quickly, and the guarantee is provided for even several decades.

The company "Centina", located in Kaunas, provides these services throughout Lithuania. Their repair crews work around the clock and respond to requests from anywhere in the country. Such popularity is determined not only by efficiency, but also by the advanced "Cipp Liner" technology - a new, textile layer soaked in special resins is introduced into the old pipe, which becomes like a new pipe.

"We started our activities with unclogging pipelines, but we quickly realized that our customers also need repair solutions. The technology we use allows this to be done quickly, without excavation or demolition," says "Centina" engineer Mindaugas Vaivadas.

 

Everything in one day

The masters begin their work by inspecting the pipelines using special cameras. One of them can descend up to 60 meters, and the other - with a flexible head - allows you to reach elbows or branches. After analyzing the condition of the pipe, the deposits are cleaned with the help of air or water flow, and then another inspection is performed.

 

Finally, the so-called "sock" insert is installed in the pipe - a resin-impregnated textile, which is pressed against the old pipe wall with the help of air flow. It forms a new, solid structure. The whole process usually takes just one day.

 

Warranty - up to 50 years

"Centina" services are designed for both private homes and apartment buildings or companies. Pipes of various diameters are repaired - from 50 to 500 mm. A "sock" insert is used for pipelines of smaller diameters, which ensures tightness, odor resistance and sound insulation. Meanwhile, fiberglass patches are applied to larger pipes.

“For the work performed, stormwater pipes are given a 50-year warranty, and for sewers – 20 years,” emphasizes M. Vaivadas.

 

Why do pipes get clogged?

Specialists emphasize that the condition of pipelines is usually determined by the habits of their owners. The most common cause of blockages is grease that residents or catering establishments pour into the sewer. Therefore, it is advised to flush pipes prophylactically: in private homes or apartment buildings – at least every six months, and in cafes or restaurants – every month.

“Unmaintained pipes can cause a lot of damage – from floating debris to broken pipes, flooded premises. Especially if the owners are on vacation at the time,” says M. Vaivadas.

 

They also solve construction defects

“Centina” craftsmen often encounter construction defects – in new buildings, gaskets are often not installed, joints are leaky, and pipelines are routed under the floor. This may require pressure testing to determine the leak.

“In such situations, constant maintenance is very important, otherwise you may have to dismantle the floor or even dig up the ground,” the specialist explains.”

 

 

 

Kanalizacijos remontas be griovimo: naujos kartos technologijos Lietuvoje

 

Susidūrę su kanalizacijos linijų problemomis, namų savininkai ir įmonės gali išbandyti kanalizacijos remontą be tranšėjų, kaip mažiau trikdančią ir dažnai efektyvesnę alternatyvą tradiciniams metodams, kuriems reikia daug kasimo ir griovimo.

Kas yra kanalizacijos remontas be tranšėjų?

Kanalizacijos remontas be tranšėjų naudoja pažangias technologijas pažeistiems vamzdžiams remontuoti arba pakeisti, atliekant minimalų kasimą arba visai jų nekasant. Užuot iškasus ilgą tranšėją, kad būtų galima pasiekti kanalizacijos liniją, sukuriami nedideli prieigos taškai, dažnai prie esamų šulinių ar valymo angų.

Įprasti kanalizacijos remonto be tranšėjų metodai:

 

Vamzdžių klojimas (CIPP - „Cured-in-Place Pipe“): Tai apima lankstaus, derva suvilgyto vamzdžio įkišimą į pažeistą vamzdį. Tada vamzdis pripučiamas, o derva sukietėja, sukurdama vientisą, patvarų „vamzdį vamzdyje“, kuris prilimpa prie pradinio vamzdžio vidinių sienelių. Šis metodas tinka vamzdžiams su nedideliais arba vidutinio sunkumo pažeidimais.

Vamzdžių trūkimas: Ši technika naudojama labiau pažeistiems arba sugriuvusiems vamzdžiams. Per seną vamzdį ištraukiama sprogstamoji galvutė, kuri jį suskaldo ir įstumia fragmentus į aplinkinį dirvožemį, tuo pačiu metu į vietą įtraukiant naują, paprastai HDPE (didelio tankio polietileno) vamzdį.

 

Betranšėjinio kanalizacijos remonto privalumai:

 

Minimalūs trikdžiai: Nereikia intensyviai kasinėti kiemo, įvažiavimo ar kraštovaizdžio, taip išsaugomas jūsų turtas.

Greitesnis užbaigimas: Dauguma betranšėjinių remonto darbų gali būti atlikti per dieną ar dvi, palyginti su dienomis ar savaitėmis, taikomomis tradiciniais metodais.

 

Ekonomiškas efektyvumas: Nors pradinės išlaidos gali skirtis, bendros išlaidos gali būti mažesnės dėl sumažėjusių darbo ir restauravimo išlaidų.

 

Patvarumas: Naudojamos medžiagos, tokios, kaip sukietėjusi epoksidinė derva, gali sukurti ilgalaikius sprendimus, o kai kurie vamzdžiai tarnauja nuo 50 iki 100 metų.

 

Aplinkosauginė nauda: Sumažintas kasimas reiškia mažesnį aplinkos trikdymą ir potencialiai mažesnę dirvožemio eroziją.

 

Apibendrinant galima teigti, kad betranšėjiniai kanalizacijos remonto metodai yra mažiau invazinis ir dažnai efektyvesnis būdas spręsti kanalizacijos linijų problemas, sumažinant jūsų turto trikdymą ir siūlant patvarų, ilgalaikį sprendimą.

 

Tai galima padaryti ir Lietuvoje:

 

 

"Bendrovės  „Centina“ reklama

Nuotekų vamzdynų remontas dažnai tampa galvos skausmu ne tik būsto savininkams, bet ir įmonėms. Tačiau šiuolaikinės technologijos leidžia tai išspręsti be griovimų ir ardymo – darbus galima atlikti greitai, o garantija suteikiama net keliems dešimtmečiams.

Kaune įsikūrusi bendrovė „Centina“ šias paslaugas teikia visoje Lietuvoje. Jų remonto brigados dirba visą parą ir reaguoja į užklausas iš bet kurios šalies vietos. Tokį populiarumą lemia ne tik operatyvumas, bet ir pažangi „Cipp Liner“ technologija – į seno vamzdžio vidų įvedamas naujas, tekstilinis, specialiomis dervomis išmirkytas sluoksnis, kuris tampa tarsi naujas vamzdis.

„Veiklą pradėjome nuo vamzdynų atkimšimo, bet greitai supratome, kad klientams reikia ir remonto sprendimų. Mūsų taikoma technologija leidžia tai padaryti greitai, be kasinėjimų ar griovimų“, – pasakoja „Centina“ inžinierius Mindaugas Vaivadas.

 

Viskas per vieną dieną

Darbus meistrai pradeda vamzdynų apžiūra naudojant specialias kameras. Viena jų gali nusileisti iki 60 metrų, o kita – su lanksčia galvute – leidžia pasiekti ir alkūnes ar atšakas. Išanalizavus vamzdžio būklę, sąnašos išvalomos oro, vandens ar šalto srauto pagalba, o tuomet atliekama dar viena patikra.

 

Galiausiai į vamzdį įmontuojamas vadinamasis „kojinis“ įdėklas – derva impregnuota tekstilė, kuri oro srauto pagalba prispaudžiama prie senos vamzdžio sienelės. Ji suformuoja naują, vientisą struktūrą. Visas procesas dažniausiai trunka vos vieną dieną.

 

Garantija – iki 50 metų

„Centina“ paslaugos skirtos tiek privatiems namams, tiek daugiabučiams ar įmonėms. Remontuojami įvairių skersmenų vamzdžiai – nuo 50 iki 500 mm. Mažesnio skersmens vamzdynams naudojamas „kojinis“ įdėklas, kuris užtikrina sandarumą, kvapų nepralaidumą bei garsinę izoliaciją. Tuo tarpu didesniems vamzdžiams taikomi stiklo pluošto lopai.

„Už atliktus darbus lietaus nuotekų vamzdžiams suteikiama net 50 metų garantija, o kanalizacijai – 20 metų“, – pabrėžia M. Vaivadas.

 

Kodėl užsikemša vamzdžiai?

Specialistai pabrėžia, kad vamzdynų būklę dažniausiai lemia jų šeimininkų įpročiai. Dažniausia užsikimšimo priežastis – riebalai, kuriuos gyventojai ar maitinimo įstaigos išpila į kanalizaciją. Dėl to patariama profilaktiškai vamzdžius praplauti: privačiuose namuose ar daugiabučiuose – bent kas pusmetį, o kavinėse ar restoranuose – kas mėnesį.

„Nesutvarkyti vamzdžiai gali sukelti daug žalos – nuo plūduriuojančių likučių iki trūkusių vamzdžių, užlietų patalpų. Ypač jei savininkai tuo metu išvykę atostogauti“, – sako M. Vaivadas.

 

Išsprendžia ir statybų broką

„Centinos“ meistrai dažnai susiduria su statybos broku – naujuose pastatuose neretai neįdėti tarpikliai, jungtys nesandarios, o vamzdynai išvedžioti po grindimis. Dėl to gali prireikti testų su slėgiu, kad būtų nustatytas nesandarumas.

„Tokiose situacijose labai svarbi nuolatinė priežiūra, kitaip gali tekti ardyti grindis ar net iškasti gruntą“, – aiškina specialistas.”

 

 

 

Jis žinomas, kaip „Sąrašas“ ir yra slaptas genijų archyvas – tik atrinkti dirbtinio intelekto tyrėjai turi įgūdžių karščiausioje technologijų srityje. Markas Zuckerbergas ir jo konkurentai nori juos samdyti – net jei tai kainuotų neįtikėtinai daug

„Visame Silicio slėnyje ryškiausi dirbtinio intelekto protai dūzgia apie „Sąrašą“ – talentingiausių dirbtinio intelekto inžinierių ir tyrėjų rinkinį, kurį Markas Zuckerbergas sudarinėjo mėnesius.

 

Lucas Beyer dirba multimodalinių regos ir kalbos tyrimų srityje ir save apibūdina kaip „mokslininką, atsidavusį nuostabumo kūrimui“. Yu Zhang specializuojasi automatinio kalbos atpažinimo srityje ir, be savo įtakingų straipsnių, beveik neturi viešumo internete. Misha Bilenko yra didelio masto mašininio mokymosi ekspertas, kuris taip pat mėgsta žygius pėsčiomis ir slidinėti – arba, kaip jis pats teigia savo svetainėje, „taikyti kalnų paieškos ir gradientinio nusileidimo algoritmus realaus pasaulio srityse“.

 

„Sąrašo“ naujokai paprastai turi daktaro laipsnius iš elitinių mokyklų, tokių kaip Berkeley ir Carnegie Mellon. Jie turi patirties tokiose vietose kaip „OpenAI“ San Franciske ir „Google DeepMind“ Londone. Paprastai jiems yra apie 20–30 metų – ir jie visi pažįsta vienas kitą. Jie leidžia dienas spoksodami į ekranus, kad išspręstų neįveikiamas problemas, kurioms reikia milžiniškos skaičiavimo galios.

 

Ir jų anksčiau nežinomi talentai dar niekada nebuvo tokie išaukštinti.“ vertinami.

 

Technologijų milžinų ir rizikos kapitalistų generaliniai direktoriai draugiškai bendrauja su keliomis dešimtimis nerangių tyrėjų, nes jų specializuotos žinios yra raktas į pelną iš dirbtinio intelekto revoliucijos.

 

Niekas šiose sparčiai eskaluojamose ginklavimosi varžybose nesivaiko vertinamų darbuotojų taip, kaip Zuckerbergas, kuris bandė užgrobti geriausias Silicio slėnio tyrimų laboratorijas, siūlydamas 100 milijonų dolerių atlyginimų paketus kelioms išrinktoms superžvaigždėms, tikėdamasis jas pervilioti.

 

„Meta“ generalinis direktorius nori, kad jie prisijungtų prie naujos jo įmonės laboratorijos, orientuotos į superintelektą, arba dirbtinį intelektą, kuris yra protingesnis už žmones, po to, kai balandžio mėnesį buvo išleistas naujausias jos modelis, tačiau nesėkmingas.

 

Vienas naujokas, kalbėjęs su Zuckerbergu, kuris asmeniškai ieško savo svajonių potencialių darbuotojų komandos, apibūdina „Meta“ tikslą kaip ne ką kita, kaip „perpylimą iš geriausių šalies dirbtinio intelekto laboratorijų“.

 

Inžinierių, turinčių didelę patirtį atliekant tokio tipo dirbtinio intelekto tyrimus, visata yra maža. Jų lojalumas vienas kitam peržengia įmonių ribas. Kai jie nusprendžia, ar išvykti į „Meta“, jie... Jie dalijasi žiniomis, keičiasi žvalgybine informacija ir kartu kuria savo ateities planus. Jie bando išsiaiškinti, kas dar prisijungs prie laboratorijos ir kas dar yra „Sąraše“. Kai kurie suvienija jėgas kaip paketiniai pasiūlymai. Kiti derasi dėl prabangių priešpriešinių pasiūlymų, kad liktų savo įmonėse.

 

Taigi, kas yra šie žmonės ir kodėl kai kurios turtingiausios pasaulio įmonės nusprendė, kad yra tiek vertos?

 

Slaptame vis galingesnių dirbtinio intelekto modelių kūrimo pasaulyje laboratorijos pradėjo imtis drastiškų veiksmų, kad apsaugotų savo mokslinius proveržius.

 

„Anthropic“ ir „OpenAI“ tyrėjai dirba atskiruose, ribotos prieigos aukštuose, kur dažnai užtraukiamos žaliuzės, kad apsisaugotų nuo smalsių akių. „Safe Superintelligence“ laboratorijoje nedaugelio kandidatų, kurie gauna asmeninius pokalbius, prašoma palikti savo telefoną Faradėjaus narve – konteineryje, blokuojančiame mobiliojo ir „Wi-Fi“ signalus. „Anthropic“ vadovai taip susirūpino, kad jų tyrėjai taps užsienio šnipinėjimo taikiniais, kad kartą pakvietė Federalinio tyrimų biuro agentą apsilankyti būstinėje ir apibūdinti darbuotojams kylančią riziką.

 

Zuckerbergo lyderis... Rankomis atrinkta „Superintelligence“ komanda yra 28 metų Alexandras Wangas, užaugęs Naujojoje Meksikoje, kinų imigrantų fizikų sūnus Los Alamos nacionalinėje laboratorijoje. Jis pradėjo kurti įmonės kūrimo planus devintoje klasėje, kai su draugu sukūrė startuolių idėjų „Google Doc“. Šį mėnesį „Meta“ sumokėjo 14 milijardų dolerių už akcijų paketą savo įmonėje „Scale AI“ – ir Zuckerbergas pavertė Wangą vienu brangiausių visų laikų darbuotojų.

 

„Meta“ pateikė pasiūlymus dešimtims „OpenAI“ tyrėjų. Startuolis atsakė į Zuckerbergo žaibišką spaudimą įspūdingais paketais.

 

Ne visi „Meta“ sąraše esantys asmenys gauna 100 milijonų dolerių, nors jie vis dar gauna sumas, kurios anksčiau buvo neįsivaizduojamos.

 

Vienas iš naujausių Zuckerbergo darbuotojų yra „DeepMind“ absolventas ir buvęs „OpenAI“ darbuotojas Lucasas Beyeris. Būdamas berniuku Belgijoje, Beyeris svajojo kurti vaizdo žaidimus ir susižavėjo dirbtiniu intelektu. Vokietijos koledže jis specializavosi mechanikos inžinerijoje ir domėjosi mašininiu mokymusi.

 

Tačiau kai jis pateikė paraišką prieš daugiau nei dešimtmetį jis buvo atmestas dėl darbo „Google“ programinės įrangos inžinieriumi, ir nusprendė siekti daktaro laipsnio.

 

Iš pradžių jis studijavo kvantinę fiziką ir išmoko kažką naudingo. „Kvantinė fizika tiesiog ne mano sritis“, – sakė Beyeris „AI Epiphany“ laidoje. Vietoj to jis pasirinko kompiuterinę regą ir robotų suvokimą. Kai 2018 m. jis pateko į darbo rinką, jis jau buvo atlikęs dvi vasaros stažuotes „Google“ ir šį kartą įmonė pasiūlė jam darbą.

 

Iš tiesų, jo talentai buvo tokie paklausūs, kad jis gavo pasiūlymų iš visų geriausių pramonės šakos DI sričių, išskyrus vieną.

 

„Meta“, – sakė jis toje laidoje. „Niekada nesulaukiau atsakymo.“

 

Šiomis dienomis Beyeris tiesiogiai bendrauja su „Meta“ generaliniu direktoriumi.

 

Po šešerių metų darbo „Google Brain“ ir „DeepMind“ mokslininku, Beyeris 2024 m. išvyko, kad su dviem kolegomis, Aleksandru Kolesnikovu ir Xiaohua Zhai, įkurtų „OpenAI“ biurą Ciuriche.

 

Dabar jie vėl juda – nes Zuckerbergas ką tik pasamdė juos visus tris.

 

„Taip, mes prisijungsime prie „Meta“, – šią savaitę „X“ parašė Beyeris. „Ne, mes negavome 100 mln.“

 

Yra keletas užuominų, kurios padeda vadovams ir įdarbintojams įvertinti talentus. Jie gali naršyti „Google Scholar“ ir peržiūrėti tyrėjų paskelbtus straipsnius, tikrindami, kaip dažnai jų darbai cituojami.

 

Pats Zuckerbergas dienas leidžia naršydamas prastus straipsnius, ieškodamas talentingų inžinierių ir mokslininkų, kuriuos galėtų įdarbinti į savo maždaug 50 žmonių superžvalgybos komandą. Jis dalyvauja grupiniame pokalbyje su dviem „Meta“ vadovais, vadinamame „Recruiting Party“, kuriame jie aptaria šimtus potencialių kandidatų ir taktiką, kaip su jais susisiekti – pavyzdžiui, ar jie pageidauja, kad su jais būtų susisiekta el. paštu, SMS žinute ar „WhatsApp“.

 

Žmonės, kurie gauna žinutes iš Zuckerbergo, turi keletą bendrų dalykų. Jie turi žinoti skaičiavimą, tiesinę algebrą ir tikimybių teoriją, kaip ir vienas iš neseniai „Meta“ įdarbintų darbuotojų, kuris sako, kad jį žavi algoritmų kūrimas.

 

Bakalauro laipsnis informatikos srityje nėra pakankamas išsilavinimas. Šie tyrėjai įgyja daktaro laipsnius elitinėse programose – Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, MIT – kurių atrankiausios sritys priima mažiau nei 1 % stojančiųjų ir tapo dirbtinio intelekto laboratorijų tiekimo sistema.

 

Šiandienos tyrėjai taip pat puikiai pataikė į savo laikus. Kai daugelis prieš dešimtmetį pradėjo doktorantūros studijas, jie nagrinėjo ezoterines robotikos ir generatyvinio dirbtinio intelekto temas. Jų srityse nebuvo nieko net iš tolo patrauklaus. Tačiau jie tyrinėjo dirbtinio intelekto ribas – ir jų interesų sritys davė revoliucinių rezultatų.

 

Zhangas, „OpenAI“ tyrėjas, dirbantis su kalba, prieš daugiau nei dešimtmetį baigė savo pirmąją stažuotę, kai jo mentorius pasiūlė jam keletą praktinių patarimų.

 

„Neturėtumėte dirbti su kalba“, – Zhangui buvo pasakyta, jis pasakojo praėjusiais metais Carnegie Mellon studentams. „Tai negyva sritis“. Tas mentorius netrukus nuėjo į „Yahoo“ dirbti su reklamomis.

 

Po kelių mėnesių, atrodytų, negyva sritis buvo atgaivinta gilaus mokymosi pažangos, kuri sukūrė naują būdą kompiuteriams analizuoti ir suprasti kalbos modelius. Dabar Zhangas yra toks inžinierius, kokio trokšta kiekviena laboratorija – ir Zuckerbergas kreipėsi į jį.

 

Viena iš priežasčių, kodėl visos šios įmonės nori apipilti darbuotojus pinigais, yra ta, kad net superkomanda dirbtinio intelekto inžinierių kainuoja tik dalį dirbtinio intelekto infrastruktūros, tokios kaip duomenų centrai, kainos.

 

Vien šiais metais „Meta“ planuoja investuoti apie 70 milijardų dolerių į dirbtinį intelektą, o „Amazon“, „Microsoft“ ir „Alphabet“ išleidžia dar daugiau. Be techninės įrangos, žmonės atrodo kaip išpardavimas.

 

Glaudios dirbtinio intelekto bendruomenės žmonės teigia, kad tyrėjai, kurių įgūdžiai niekada nebuvo tokie pelningi, nėra pirmiausia motyvuoti didžiulėmis pinigų krūvomis.

 

Iki šiol daugelis buvo visiškai patenkinti tapę profesoriais. Šiomis dienomis jie tampa tyrėjais dirbtinio intelekto laboratorijose – bet ne tik dėl atlyginimo. Taip yra todėl, kad tik technologijų įmonės, turinčios, regis, neribotus išteklius, siūlo skaičiavimo galią, duomenis, infrastruktūrą ir laisvę, kurios jiems reikia eksperimentams atlikti ir modeliams plėsti.

 

„Mano studentams ir podoktorantūros studentams tikslas niekada nebuvo daryti populiarių dalykų ir tapti milijonieriais“, – sakė Aleksejus Efrosas, Kalifornijos universiteto Berklyje profesorius, kurio neseniai doktorantūros studentai yra „OpenAI“, „DeepMind“ ir „Anthropic“ mokslininkai. „Tikslas – pabandyti išspręsti šaunias, įdomias, svarbias, neišspręstas problemas.“

 

Šioms problemoms reikia pinigų ir lustų. „Meta“, „OpenAI“ ir „Google“ jų turi gausu.

 

Tačiau norėdami laimėti įdarbinimo kovas, aukščiausi vadovai taip pat turi patys įsitraukti.

 

„OpenAI“ generalinis direktorius Samas Altmanas pakvietė potencialius darbuotojus žaisti pokerį arba vakarieniauti su juo savo dvare Russian Hill rajone San Franciske, o prezidentas Gregas Brockmanas rengdavo „Sostų karų“ žiūrėjimo vakarėlius. Elonas Muskas kartą surengė įdarbinimo vakarėlį buvusioje „OpenAI“ būstinėje, kad paskatintų tyrėjus prisijungti prie xAI. „Google“ generalinis direktorius Sundaras Pichai ir vienas iš įkūrėjų Sergey Brinas skiria laiko svarbių darbuotojų įdarbinimui.

 

Aštuonženklis, o kartais ir devynženklis atlyginimas vilioja, o Zuckerbergo bendradarbiavimo mastas – glostantis, tačiau atsilikusi „Meta“ istorija generatyvinio dirbtinio intelekto srityje privertė kai kuriuos kandidatus dvejoti. Kai bendrovė išleido naujausią savo modelį be didelio ažiotažo, kai kurie „Meta“ tyrėjai atsiribojo nuo šio modelio, pašalindami projektą, pavadintą „Llama 4“, iš savo „LinkedIn“ biografijų.

 

Zuckerbergui nelabai sekėsi įdarbinti didžiausias šios srities žvaigždes, įskaitant „OpenAI“ bendraįkūrėją Ilją Sutskeverį ir vyriausiąjį tyrimų pareigūną Marką Cheną.

 

Daugelis kandidatų mielai susitinka Zuckerbergo namuose Palo Alto ir Tahoe ežere. Privačiai jie lygina apkalbas ir skaičiuoja „Meta“ galimybes laimėti dirbtinio intelekto lenktynes.

 

Keletas tyrėjų, kurie išmano labiausiai dirbtinį intelektą, sukaupė tai, ką vienas apibūdino kaip „genčių žinias“, kurių beveik neįmanoma atkartoti. Konkuruojantys tyrėjai gyveno tuose pačiuose grupiniuose namuose San Franciske, kur aptaria straipsnius, kurie gali suteikti užuominų kitam dideliam proveržiui pasiekti.

 

Kai daktaro laipsnis... Kai Berklio universiteto studentas Billas Peeblesas pateikė savo disertaciją 2023 m., jis padėkojo kitam doktorantui Timui Brooksui.

 

„Mes labai sutariame dėl tyrimų krypčių ir interesų“, – rašė jis. „Tikiuosi, kad ateityje galėsime kartu dirbti ir daugiau dalykų.“

 

Kaip paaiškėjo, taip ir bus. Peeblesas ir Brooksas abu perėjo dirbti į „OpenAI“ ir vadovavo komandai, kuri 2024 m. išleido novatorišką teksto į vaizdo įrašus generatorių „Sora“. Brooksas nuo to laiko išėjo į „DeepMind“, o Peeblesas vis dar dirba „OpenAI“ – net ir po to, kai „Meta“ neseniai bandė jį įdarbinti.

 

„O tada Zuckerbergas perėjo prie kito asmens „Sąraše“.“ [1]

 

 

1. EXCHANGE --- It's Known As The List, And It's a Secret File Of Geniuses --- Only select AI researchers have the skills for the hottest area in tech. Mark Zuckerberg and his rivals want to hire them -- even if it costs ungodly sums. Cohen, Ben; Berber, Jin; Bobrowsky, Meghan.  Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 28 June 2025: B1. 

It's Known As The List, And It's a Secret File Of Geniuses --- Only select AI researchers have the skills for the hottest area in tech. Mark Zuckerberg and his rivals want to hire them -- even if it costs ungodly sums.

“All over Silicon Valley, the brightest minds in AI are buzzing about "The List," a compilation of the most talented engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence that Mark Zuckerberg has spent months putting together.

 

Lucas Beyer works in multimodal vision-language research and describes himself as "a scientist dedicated to the creation of awesomeness." Yu Zhang specializes in automatic speech recognition and barely has an online presence besides his influential papers. Misha Bilenko is an expert in large-scale machine learning who also enjoys hiking and skiing -- or, as he puts it on his website, "applying hill-climbing search and gradient descent algorithms to real-world domains."

 

The recruits on "The List" typically have Ph.D.s from elite schools like Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon. They have experience at places like OpenAI in San Francisco and Google DeepMind in London. They are usually in their 20s and 30s -- and they all know each other. They spend their days staring at screens to solve the kinds of inscrutable problems that require spectacular amounts of computing power.

 

And their previously obscure talents have never been so highly valued.

 

The chief executives of tech goliaths and heavyweight venture capitalists are cozying up with a few dozen nerdy researchers because their specialized knowledge is the key to cashing in on the artificial-intelligence revolution.

 

Nobody in this rapidly escalating arms race is chasing the prized recruits quite like Zuckerberg, who has tried to raid Silicon Valley's top research labs, dangling $100 million pay packages to a select few superstars with the hopes of poaching them.

 

The CEO of Meta wants them to join his company's new lab focused on superintelligence, or AI that is smarter than humans, after the release of its latest model in April fell flat.

 

One recruit who has spoken with Zuckerberg, who is personally courting his dream team of potential hires, describes Meta's goal as nothing less than a "transfusion from the country's top AI labs."

 

The universe of engineers with deep experience pursuing this type of AI research is tiny. Their loyalty to each other transcends companies. As they decide whether to leave for Meta, they are comparing notes, trading intel and plotting their futures together. They're trying to figure out who else is joining the lab -- and who else is on "The List." Some are teaming up as package deals. Others are negotiating lavish counteroffers to stay at their companies.

 

So who are these people -- and why have some of the world's richest companies decided they are worth so much?

 

In the secretive world of building ever more powerful AI models, labs have begun to take drastic steps to protect their scientific breakthroughs.

 

At Anthropic and OpenAI, researchers work on separate, access-restricted floors, where the blinds are often drawn to guard against prying eyes. At Safe Superintelligence, the few candidates who secure in-person interviews are asked to leave their phone in a Faraday cage, a container that blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals. Anthropic's leaders became so worried that their researchers would be targets of foreign espionage that they once invited an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to visit headquarters and describe the risks to employees.

 

The leader of Zuckerberg's handpicked Superintelligence team is Alexandr Wang, 28, who grew up in New Mexico as the son of Chinese immigrant physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He began making plans to create a company in the ninth grade, when he and a friend created a Google Doc of startup ideas. This month, Meta shelled out $14 billion for a stake in his company, Scale AI -- and Zuckerberg made Wang one of the priciest hires of all time.

 

Meta has made offers to dozens of researchers at OpenAI. The startup has responded to Zuckerberg's blitz with impressive packages of its own.

 

Not everyone on Meta's list gets $100 million, though they're still fetching sums that were previously unimaginable.

 

One of Zuckerberg's latest hires is a DeepMind alum and former OpenAI employee named Lucas Beyer. As a boy in Belgium, Beyer dreamed of making videogames and developed a fascination with AI. At college in Germany, he focused on mechanical engineering and dabbled in machine learning.

 

But when he applied for a job at Google as a software engineer more than a decade ago, he was rejected and decided to pursue a Ph.D.

 

At first, he studied quantum physics and learned something useful. "Quantum physics is just not my thing," Beyer said on the AI Epiphany show. He made computer vision and robotic perception his thing instead. When he hit the job market in 2018, he'd done two summer internships at Google and, this time, the company offered him a job.

 

In fact, his talents were in such high demand that he received offers from all the industry's top AI destinations -- except one.

 

"Meta," he said on that show. "I never heard back."

 

These days, Beyer is hearing directly from Meta's CEO.

 

After six years as a staff research scientist at Google Brain and DeepMind, Beyer left in 2024 to start OpenAI's office in Zurich with two colleagues, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai.

 

Now they're on the move again -- because Zuckerberg just hired all three of them.

 

"Yes, we will be joining Meta," Beyer wrote on X this week. "No, we did not get 100M."

 

There are some clues that help executives and recruiters assess talent. They can poke around Google Scholar and browse through the papers that researchers have published, checking to see how often their work has been cited.

 

Zuckerberg himself has been spending his days weeding through wonky papers, searching for hotshot engineers and scientists to recruit for his Superintelligence team of roughly 50 people. He's in a group chat with two Meta executives called "Recruiting Party" in which they discuss hundreds of potential candidates and tactics for approaching them -- like whether they prefer to be contacted by email, text or WhatsApp.

 

The people who get notes from Zuckerberg have a few things in common. They need to know calculus, linear algebra and probability theory, like one of Meta's recent hires, who says he's fascinated by algorithm design.

 

An undergraduate degree in computer science isn't nearly enough training. These researchers get Ph.D.s from elite programs -- Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, MIT -- whose most selective fields admit less than 1% of applicants and have become a feeder system to AI labs.

 

Today's researchers also had perfect timing. When many embarked on their Ph.D. work a decade ago, they were tackling esoteric topics in robotics and generative artificial intelligence. There was nothing remotely sexy about their fields. But they were exploring the frontier of AI -- and their areas of interest have yielded revolutionary advances.

 

Zhang, a researcher at OpenAI who works on speech, was finishing up his first internship more than a decade ago when his mentor offered him some practical advice.

 

"You should not work on speech," Zhang was told, he recounted to Carnegie Mellon students last year. "This is a dead field." That mentor soon left for Yahoo to work on ads.

 

A few months later, the seemingly dead field was resuscitated by advances in deep learning, which created a new way for computers to analyze and understand speech patterns. Now, Zhang is the sort of engineer that every lab covets -- and Zuckerberg has reached out to him.

 

One reason all these companies are willing to shower recruits with cash is that even a superteam of AI engineers costs only a fraction of the price of AI infrastructure like data centers.

 

This year alone, Meta plans to invest around $70 billion on AI, while Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet are spending even more. Next to hardware, humans look like a bargain.

 

People in the tight-knit AI community say the researchers whose skills have never been so lucrative are not primarily motivated by huge piles of money.

 

Until recently, many were perfectly happy to become professors. These days, they're becoming researchers at AI labs -- but not just because of the pay. It's because only tech companies with seemingly limitless resources offer the computing power, data, infrastructure and freedom they need to run their experiments and scale their models.

 

"For my students and postdocs, the objective was never to do hot things and become a millionaire," said Alexei Efros, a University of California, Berkeley, professor whose recent Ph.D. students include research scientists at OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic. "The objective is to try to solve cool, interesting, important, unsolved problems."

 

Those problems require money and chips. Meta, OpenAI and Google have both in abundance.

 

But to win recruiting battles, top executives also have to get involved themselves.

 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invited potential hires to play poker or have dinner with him at his Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco, while President Greg Brockman used to host "Game of Thrones" watch parties. Elon Musk once hosted a recruiting party at OpenAI's former headquarters to entice researchers into joining xAI. At Google, CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin carve out time to bring over important hires.

 

The eight- and sometimes nine-figure pay packages are tempting, and the outreach from Zuckerberg is flattering, but Meta's laggard history in generative AI has made some recruits hesitant. When the company released its latest model to little fanfare, some researchers at Meta distanced themselves from the model, removing the project, called Llama 4, from their LinkedIn bios.

 

Zuckerberg hasn't had much success in his efforts to hire the field's biggest stars, including OpenAI's co-founder Ilya Sutskever and its chief research officer, Mark Chen.

 

Many candidates are happy to take a meeting at Zuckerberg's homes in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe. In private, they are comparing gossip and calculating Meta's chances of winning the AI race.

 

The handful of researchers who are smartest about AI have built up what one described as "tribal knowledge" that is almost impossible to replicate. Rival researchers have lived in the same group houses in San Francisco, where they discuss papers that might provide clues for achieving the next great breakthrough.

 

When a Ph.D. student at Berkeley named Bill Peebles submitted his dissertation in 2023, he thanked another Ph.D. candidate named Tim Brooks.

 

"We are very aligned on research directions and interests," he wrote. "I hope we get to work on more stuff together in the future."

 

As it turned out, they would. Peebles and Brooks both went to work for OpenAI and led the team that released its groundbreaking Sora text-to-video generator in 2024. Brooks has since left for DeepMind, while Peebles is still at OpenAI -- even after Meta recently tried to hire him.

 

And then Zuckerberg moved on to the next person on "The List."” [1]

 

1. EXCHANGE --- It's Known As The List, And It's a Secret File Of Geniuses --- Only select AI researchers have the skills for the hottest area in tech. Mark Zuckerberg and his rivals want to hire them -- even if it costs ungodly sums. Cohen, Ben; Berber, Jin; Bobrowsky, Meghan.  Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 28 June 2025: B1. 

Skvernelis, Žiponėlis, and the social democrat Paluckas are all sitting in the pocket of musician Landsbergis. Skvernelis says that their common briber, Vilčinskas, is also connected to the holiest family in Lithuania – the Landsbergis. Why do we still need such all-powerful “holiest” people in Lithuania?

 

"After the second part of the journalistic investigation into Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas’s business dealings was published, the Speaker of the Seimas, Saulius Skvernelis, says that he is only concerned about the circumstances of the Prime Minister’s purchase of an apartment.

 

“It seems to me that the Prime Minister should answer for the different prices and circumstances of the purchase of the apartment,” S. Skvernelis said in the Seimas on Monday.

 

“I think that he probably has to say something about the apartment, and I don’t see any problem here, because G. Paluckas was probably not alone like a church mouse before his marriage and purchase of the apartment. But he himself needs to answer for this,” he emphasized.

 

At the end of last week, a group of representatives of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) faction prepared a list of questions for the Prime Minister related to the Prime Minister's businesses and relations with businessman Darijus Vilčinskas. G. Paluckas is expected to answer these questions during the Seimas session on Monday.

 

In turn, the leader of the parliament says that the Prime Minister should not have any difficulties in answering the questions submitted by the opposition.

 

"From the text that I have read, it will probably not be difficult for the Prime Minister to answer," S. Skvernelis assured.

 

He believes that the Vilnius Municipality made the right decision by taking over the Trade Union Hall

 

The study presented on Sunday indicates that G. Paluckas, who had relations with D. Vilčinskas and worked as vice-mayor at the time, also participated in voting for 6 million EUR 100 million of municipal funds were paid to the company VIPC Vilnius, which is related to this businessman, for the takeover of the Trade Unions Hall, which it manages, for public needs.

 

In turn, S. Skvernelis insists that by taking over the Trade Unions Hall, the municipality made the right decision, which, according to the leader of the Seimas, was sought not only by G. Paluckas, but also by the current Mayor of Vilnius, Valdas Benkunskas.

 

“I can now say what and how I would do it, but it was not only the left side that was working on the Trade Unions Hall. The right side was also working on it. And at that time, the vice-mayor was not only G. Paluckas, but also Mr. Benkunskas,” S. Skvernelis told journalists in the Seimas.

 

“Those palaces were taken care of by the Committee of the House of Peoples, the esteemed Juozas Olekas, and Vytautas Landsbergis, but it seems to me that the municipality made the right decision, and (…) the court decided what the final price is (…). I don’t think that anyone there earned much or not (…). Of course, now I can say: if I had been in that situation, I would have done things differently,” said the parliamentary leader.

 

Mentions possible ties between D. Vilčinskas and the Landsbergis family

 

True, when talking about the relationship between the prime minister and businessman D. Vilčinskas, the Speaker of the Seimas notes that he himself maintains a friendly relationship with D. Vilčinskas.

 

“It’s difficult for me to be objective, because (this – ELTA) also concerns my friend,” the Seimas leader told journalists.

 

“I myself have been communicating with Darius for a very long time, probably more than 25 years. (…) I have been communicating, I am communicating and I will continue to communicate,” he assured.

 

In addition, according to the head of parliament, the Landsbergis family is also connected to this businessman.

 

“I don’t know why you are making him a scandalous businessman or something else, but there is a very strong connection with the holiest family in Lithuania – the Landsbergis family, so maybe we should look at that too,” S. Skvernelis said in the Seimas.

 

“First of all, it also raises questions for me that if the books of a holy man – Vytautas Landsbergis – and his son are being financially supported by businessman Darijus V., then it seems to me that the businessman is also holy,” he added.

 

I don’t know why you are making him a scandalous businessman or something else, but there is a very strong connection with the holiest family in Lithuania – the Landsbergis family, so maybe we should look at that too.

 

ELTA reminds that the second part of the journalistic investigation into the business of Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas raises questions about the company “Sagerta”, which developed a lake bottom topography application and was managed by the Head of Government until 2018, and the hundreds of thousands of loans it received from the company “Uni Trading” of businessman Darijas Vilčinskas.

 

In 2013, “Sagerta”, acquired by G. Paluckas, operated at a loss, but received more than 233 thousand litas in shareholder loans – although G. Paluckas was listed as the sole shareholder of the company in the Centre of Registers at that time, he did not indicate these loans in his declarations of assets and interests.

 

The investigation data showed that these loans were actually provided by the company of businessman D. Vilčinskas – the Centre of Registers received information retroactively that, in 2015, when G. Paluckas became the vice-mayor of Vilnius, he had a share – 45 percent – the company’s shares were transferred to Uni Trading for management.

 

D. Vilčinskas claims that he was not the actual owner of Uni Trading owner and the source of finance for G. Paluckas’ company. The prime minister himself told the journalists who conducted the investigation that he did not know who controlled the company that provided annual loans to his business.

 

G. Paluckas, who had connections with D. Vilčinskas and worked as vice-mayor, also decided on the payment of 6 million euros of municipal funds to the company “VIPC Vilnius”, associated with this businessman, for the takeover of the Trade Unions’ Chamber for public needs.

 

There are more connections between G. Paluckas and D. Vilčinskas. In 2012, the future prime minister purchased a house worth 223 thousand euros from a company run by the businessman in the territory of the capital’s Verkiai Regional Park, which he also did not declare in his 2013 declarations of assets and interests.

 

ELTA reminds that the first part of the investigation by the investigative journalism center "Siena" and "Laisvės TV" raises questions regarding the preferential loan received by the national development bank ILTE from the company "Garnis", partly owned by G. Paluckas. This happened when G. Paluckas was already serving as prime minister.

 

The Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) has already launched an investigation into a possible conflict of interest of G. Paluckas. In turn, ILTE conducted an internal inspection, during which no violations of procedures were identified.

 

The Financial Crimes Investigation Service (FNTT) has also launched a pre-trial investigation, and the State Tax Inspectorate (VMI) has also initiated an inspection into the circumstances of the use of the loan.

 

V. Čmilytė-Nielsen: the prime minister could test his confidence in the Seimas

 

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the chairwoman of the Liberal Movement, says that after a new journalistic investigation into the businesses of Prime Minister G. Paluckas, the prime minister could test his confidence in the Seimas. According to the politician, the position of the Presidency will also be important in this situation – how the new, questionable information will be assessed.

 

“Two things are important. One thing, of course, is the assessment of the president, because the president is not only the godfather of this coalition, not only has he repeatedly mentioned that he finds this coalition pleasant for joint work. But at the same time, the prime minister could certainly test his confidence in the Seimas,” V. Čmilytė-Nielsen told journalists in the Seimas on Monday.

 

“No, (the prime minister – ELTA) does not have confidence until the questions are answered, until they are avoided,” she said.

 

V. Čmilytė-Nielsen also criticizes the reaction of the prime minister’s team to the journalistic investigation. As reported, Justinas Argustas, the prime minister’s advisor, told LRT radio that the text and video published by “Siena” and “Laisvės TV” resemble speculation and fantasies.

 

The prime minister could certainly test his confidence in the Seimas.

 

“There are many questions, we still really lack answers. It is disappointing that the Prime Minister and his team are sinking deeper and deeper into such a blind defense. Neither jokes, nor insolent answers, nor belittling of history will dispel the shadow that is now there, nor the stains that seem to be in the Prime Minister’s biography,” the Deputy Speaker of the Seimas noted.

 

“You want to believe that today the Prime Minister will provide at least some of the answers. But we, the Liberal Movement faction, will once again repeat our open invitation to him to come to our faction today,” she added, reminding that the faction she leads has invited the Prime Minister to a meeting to answer the remaining questions regarding journalistic investigations.

 

M. Lingė: Opposition does not rule out the possibility of initiating an interpellation of G. Paluckis

 

Mindaugas Lingė, the elder of the conservative faction belonging to the Seimas opposition, says that the Head of Government no longer has confidence, therefore the opposition does not rule out the possibility of initiating an interpellation of him in the Seimas. According to the politician, the newly emerged information also requires a principled assessment of the country's leader.

 

"There remains a large and open space for questions, which the Prime Minister does not remember and has not said in his declarations. (…) In our eyes, such a Prime Minister does not have confidence and would certainly no longer be able to hold office, therefore the President's principled assessment is particularly important and expected here, if it would be difficult for the Prime Minister himself to personally make a decisive political decision," M. Lingė told journalists in the Seimas on Monday.

 

"All options are being considered," the politician assured when asked whether the opposition does not rule out the possibility of initiating an interpellation of the Prime Minister.

 

M. Lingė added that the most questions in the new investigation are raised by loans received by companies previously owned by G. Paluckas, but not repaid, which give the impression that the prime minister may have accepted a bribe.

 

“If loans are not repaid and are provided free of charge, then they should probably not be called loans, but by another name,” the parliamentarian said.

 

At the last sitting of the Seimas spring session on Monday, the conservatives will invite the prime minister to the rostrum of the plenary hall.

 

“We want to hear from the prime minister himself today and in the hall – maybe he remembered something after all, because it shows that he has been forgetting a lot in the last few days,” said the politician, a in response to G. Paluckas' earlier statements that he does not remember his visits to the national development bank ILTE, which provided a loan to a company partly owned by the prime minister.

 

"The question here is not about old age or the distant past, but about the incumbent prime minister, who is constantly caught up in such stories where there are more questions than answers," said M. Lingė."

 

Who is G. Paluckas' friend D. Vilčinskas, who made headlines in a scandalous investigation about the prime minister?

“On Sunday, an investigation published by the investigative journalism center "Siena" and "Laisvės TV" revealed close ties between Gintautas Paluckas and businessman Darijus Vilčinskas.

According to the investigation conducted by the investigative journalism center "Siena" and "Laisvės TV", in 2004 the holiday home "Ąžuolynas" received a permit to build a yacht club, restaurant and yachtsmen's hotels in Juodkrantė, but as soon as construction began, the holiday home "Ąžuolynas" sold the buildings to the company "Verslo investicijų projektų centras" controlled by Darijus Vilčinskas. This company completed the construction and sold them to different owners.

However, questions soon arose as to whether these buildings were standing legally, and in 2010. the court ordered their demolition. People who bought housing there had to return it to the “Business Investment Project Center”, and the company had to return the 1.3 million euros they had paid to the people. However, the people never got their money back – D. Vilčinskas’ company soon announced that it was having financial problems and began bankruptcy proceedings. “Business Investment Project Center” was deregistered in 2022.

This story was also described by the news portal Lrytas. As D. Vilčinskas said in an interview given to the portal in 2013, of the three houses that the court ordered to be demolished, he owned only one at the time, and the demolition work had already begun. At that time, the businessman hoped to claim a considerable amount from the state for the whole situation. “We have already filed a 10.5 million litas (about 3 million euros – author’s note) lawsuit against the state to cover the damage. The houses were built after obtaining all the necessary permits, the building inspectorate accepted them. However, this amount is for three houses, and I am only demolishing the house that belongs to me. The other two belong to other owners, although I am the builder. In other words, I am obliged to demolish all three houses in Juodkrantė. I am implementing the court decision,” the businessman said 12 years ago.”

How is this connected to Landsbergis?

 

“Vytautas V.Landsbergis confirmed that D.Vilčinskas supported the publication of the book “Rudnosiukas-2” and the family connection. “There is no secret here, we publish many books thanks to sponsors. Even the book Rudnosiukas-2, which Darijus symbolically supported once, because it was intended for my goddaughter, the daughter of Darijus and his wife (my wife’s cousin). A very great child and it is a pity that Skvernelis decides to put the children under his skidding tractor,” Vytautas V.Landsbergis announced.”