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A team of Ukrainian startups is developing a medical startup based on artificial intelligence that helps doctors save time and record information and appointments during patient appointments. Yulia Tychynska, Bohdan Khaetsky, Dmytro Sofina, and Yuriy Gumenchuk, together with a team of data and ML engineers, created the Tayra.ai service, which significantly saves doctors and patients time, and also eliminates the hassle of deciphering illegible handwriting of doctors.

22-year-old Vadym Glushko is the founder and CEO of the OBRIY project, where together with the technical team they create an innovative system for collecting and analyzing public data. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, a team of developers-"osinters» led by Vadym conducts geospatial intelligence for the defense forces of Ukraine. Thanks to the data that the experts provided to the military, the Ukrainian defenders managed to destroy enemy equipment worth almost half a billion dollars. Vadym Glushko told dev.ua what prompted him to engage in geospatial intelligence, how the software works, how much AI is in it, and how volunteers are selected for the search engine team.

Elon Musk’s startup xAI presented the «smartest artificial intelligence on Earth» — the chatbot Grok 3. More than 100,000 people watched the demonstration of the launch of a new player in the AI ​​market.

Developer Ruslan Hladchenko created Mastermindy, an AI-based app where people can connect around common interests and work together to achieve common goals. For example, prepare for Java certification together, set goals, track progress, and all this in a social network format. Ruslan told dev.ua how Mastermindy transformed from Google Sheets in 2021 to an AI platform in 2025.

Ukrainian developers have created an application for analyzing CVs, transcripts of interviews with candidates, and other related documents that are involved in the candidate selection process. The Talantly.ai application generates reports that highlight the candidate’s compliance with the requirements, his strengths and weaknesses. dev.ua talked to one of the Client Support Team Leads of the service, Ivan Pelypenko, and found out what the application is capable of and who can use it. Below is his direct speech.

I, Inna Tyutiun, member of the board, director of the IT and retail business blocks of Sense Bank, tell you in my blog for dev.ua about how more than 500 IT specialists at Sense Bank are implementing dozens of projects in the state-owned financial institution, how an ecosystem of innovations is being built, designed to provide maximum convenience to our clients.

IdeaSoft, part of the Ukrainian-Swedish IT company Sigma Software Group, has entered the market of the United Arab Emirates. And although Ukrainian blockchain specialists have been cooperating with clients from there for a long time, the company’s current plans include multiple scaling and active involvement in projects related to the crypto market and blockchain in one of the most lucrative markets in the world. Within a year, 100 Ukrainian IT specialists will be working on projects in the OAE, while there are currently about 40 of them. dev.ua spoke with IdeaSoft CEO Andriy Lazorenko about expansion plans and the future of the crypto industry in the world.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI announced the launch of Grok 3 on Monday, February 17. According to the company, this latest version of the chatbot, which Musk describes as «terribly smart,» is a significant step forward, improving reasoning, computing power, and adaptability.

The Ministry of Defense has developed changes regarding the decommissioning of unmanned aerial vehicles by the military that are not suitable for operation. To this end, the agency interviewed representatives of 70 military units and identified key problems in the procedure for recording and decommissioning drones. Proposals have now been developed to eliminate problems during decommissioning.

People & Business consultant Daryna Tokarchuk recently came across a job posting with requirements that struck her. To apply for the position, the candidate was required to provide the date, place, and time of birth so that the company could conduct an analysis through astrology. This came as a surprise to the specialist, and she asked other IT professionals who else had encountered strange requirements during selection. Here are the cases the experts told about, and why employers think such requirements are justified.

Startups in the US, unlike large companies, shower employees with non-trivial benefits — from MRI scans to «vacation at your own expense.» What’s going on and is this really a «battle of employers»?

Is it possible to «eavesdrop» on satellites and how secure is modern space communication? Software engineer Oleksandr Gromovsky explains why the era of easy WikiLeaks-style interceptions is over, and where the vulnerability actually lies

Do IT professionals fall in love at work? An interesting question on Valentine’s Day, isn’t it? We asked it to the readers of dev.ua, and collected a lot of interesting stories and a little bit of statistics. We publish the most interesting from the mini-study.

Senior Employer Brand manager Yulia Semenova told how to use keywords in your LinkedIn profile and content: where keywords should be and how to find them, SEO for articles and posts, alt text for videos and photos, and how to create it using ChatGPT.

Ukrainian IT professional Oleksa Mashchyts, an entrepreneur and founder of the QA Ukraine community of testers, told how HR once selected a candidate whose soft skills prevailed over hard skills. And this surprised him. The IT professional asked other IT professionals what they would do.

HR and People partner Anastasia Nakonechna shared AI tools, free or with free functionality, that anyone can use to make their life easier.

Європейський крипторинок зазнає значних трансформацій із впровадженням регламенту Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA). Його мета — забезпечити правову ясність, захист прав споживачів, стабільність ринку та стимулювати інновації в галузі.

Last year, the state announced a competition for scientific research for the first time using a new principle, determining what it needed and addressing scientists as executors of a specific government order with clear terms of reference. As a result, this year the Cabinet of Ministers has allocated funding for 22 research projects based on the results of the competition, providing scientists with a total of UAH 186 million and setting a two-year deadline. These funds are to be used to fulfill «scientific state orders» for 10 agencies: the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Strategy, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, and the State Special Communications Service.   However, apart from a few posts by Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and a small amount of news on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science as the organizer of the competition, there is little information on this topic. The list of developments within the framework of the state order for scientific and technical products in 2025-2026, approved by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 38-r, contains information for official use. Given that some of the developments relate to topics that are quite sensitive for the state’s defense capability, this is logical. 

IT Recruiter Anastasia L. complained that recently she has come across many developers who provide false information about themselves, or even pretend to be someone else. Other candidates are also noticing a similar trend. Let’s take a look.

In December 2024, Ukraine faced its largest cyberattack in recent memory, paralyzing the operation of state registries. The attack was one of 4,315 cyber incidents handled by the State Service for Special Communications in 2024, a 70% increase from 2023. The Russian hackers who claimed responsibility for the attack claimed to have destroyed over 1 billion rows of data. However, less than two weeks after the attack, the state began restoring access to the registries. And exactly one month after the cyberattack, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice announced the full restoration of the databases.

In August of last year, the Russians began using modified versions of fiber-optic drones on the front lines. The main reason for the popularity of this type of UAV is the inability to suppress it with the electronic warfare (EW) systems that our front lines are littered with. In addition, there is currently no effective countermeasure against fiber-optics. 3DTech is one of those Ukrainian manufacturers of fiber-optic drones that are working on a response to the occupiers. Last weekend, we visited the testing ground with the company and saw how its improved UAV turned out. We also learned what technological solutions can be effective in the fight against such enemy "birds". More about all this later in the material.

Full-Stack Developer from Kharkiv region Iryna Kostromytska published a post about how to get into IT when you’re already 40 and times are tough. The woman was able to learn English in a year and get a job at a top IT company because she had a lot of motivation — her family was left homeless due to the war. Her advice is being hotly discussed by the community.

A New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal has debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically scroll through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs, similar to the interface of the video-sharing app TikTok.

NovaPay Innovation Director Oleksiy Ruban gave an interview to Forbes, we selected the main points from it about the earnings model, number of clients, IT team salary, and competition.

One of this year’s trends in promoting businesses on social networks will be UGC (User Generated Content). That is, content created by users. Everyone has heard about it for a long time, but it has not been used often and is also rarely found on social networks. Although this type of content can be interesting and useful, both for users themselves and for businesses.

Artificial intelligence is gaining momentum in various spheres of life. In particular, the educational process has not escaped this fate. For example, the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs Mykhailo Fedorov, during the launch of the first AI Center of Excellence in Ukraine, recalled the «Mriya» project, the beta testing of which was completed at the end of December 2024, where the integration of artificial intelligence is also planned. It is there that individual educational trajectories for children will be built with the help of AI. We decided to find out from Ukrainian experts who co-authored a study by the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the use of artificial intelligence in school education, published in the journal «Information Technologies and Learning Tools», what problems and benefits artificial intelligence brings to the educational process, what tools are worth paying attention to, and what to expect from Ukrainian education in 5-10 years under the influence of the AI ​​invasion.

32-річний Акшай Пхадке в ІТ-сфері вже 10 років: працював як на техгігантів, так і на стартапи. Він зіткнувся з незліченними відмовами, перш ніж склав свою власну стратегію складання резюме, що допомогло йому отримати роботу в Microsoft. Щоби виділитися серед конкурентів, програміст зосередився на технічних перевагах, лаконічному змісті, візуальній привабливості резюме та чіткій передачі інформації.

Ukraine may receive legislative regulation of the cryptocurrency market in the first half of 2025, said the head of the Verkhovna Rada tax committee Danylo Getmantsev during the New Economy conference. At the event, representatives of the authorities and crypto business discussed the problems of creating a regulatory framework. CEO Trustee Plus Vadym Grusha speaks about the gradual adaptation of legislation, which will allow the market to grow organically. Crypto business also emphasizes that the complication of the draft law on digital assets may hinder the development of the industry.

Since 2009, the traditional banking sector has faced a growing challenge in the face of blockchain and cryptocurrencies — technologies that were first perceived as speculation, and then as a global threat, an alternative to the existing financial system.

At the end of January, it became known that the technological public association Techosystem had a new CEO, Maksym Bakhmatov. He plans to increase the number of participants from over 100 to 500, open new regional offices, and create a physical space for startups that will become a center for cooperation and exchange of ideas between ecosystem participants. We met with Maksym Bakhmatov and talked about the match with Techosystem, the problems of Ukrainian startups after the end of the war, what Elon Musk needs to learn from a Ukrainian entrepreneur, and the position of mayor of Kyiv, for which he is applying. The interview has been edited and shortened for clarity.