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On March 6, 2026, the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) held its regular scientific seminar. Dmitry Dagaev, Head of the Laboratory of Sports Studies (LIS) and Senior Research Fellow at IDLab, presented a report titled “Not Yet: Humans Outperform LLMs in a Colonel Blotto Tournament.” The study was co-authored by Egor Ivanov (Junior Research Fellow at IDLab), Petr Parshakov (Head of IDLab), Alexey Savvateev (mathematician and science communicator), and Gleb Vasiliev (Junior Research Fellow at LIS). The research focuses on a classical game-theoretic problem—the Colonel Blotto game—within the context of the modern competition between humans and Large Language Models (LLMs).The study is supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) project 25-18-00539, “Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Agents and Real Individuals in Economic Decision-Making.”

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On March 4, the 114th meeting of the research and theoretical seminar “Formal Philosophy” took place.

On Februrary 27^th, department heads and vice-heads of the HSE AI and Digital Science Institute participated in Strategy Workshop, titled "Joined Future".

Junior Research Fellow Eliana Monakhova from the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience took part in the session “The Art of Defeating Threats” at the Ural Forum on Cybersecurity in Finance. The fourth edition of the forum was held at the Yekaterinburg-Expo Congress Center and brought together more than 1,600 participants, including bank executives, federal government officials, and information security experts.

Viktoria Denisova engaged in a philosophical disputation with the Ambassador of Mexico, the philosopher Dr. Eduardo Villegas Megías, concerning the works of the Dutch historian and philosopher Johan Huizinga.

Research (scientific) structural units of HSE University planning to conduct joint research with foreign universities and research centres are invited to take part in the competition.

On February 27, 2026, a regular research seminar of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) was held. Valeriia Fedorova, Research Assistant at IDLab, presented a talk titled “Use of Generative AI in Project Descriptions and Funding Outcomes in Crowdfunding.”
The study was co-authored by Petr Parshakov, Head of the Laboratory, and Marina Zavertiaeva, Senior Research Fellow at IDLab.

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