Yandex, MTS and Sber are building control systems for AI agents

Following Izvestia's reporting, Russian tech companies are building infrastructure to control AI agents: Yandex (Sergey Yudin, tech director of professional AI services) describes a 'harness' layer governing model memory, context and access to data and tools; MTS via MWS AI is building model-switching, compute-usage tracking and per-action auditing; Sber already uses agent-management in GigaAgent, GigaCode and GigaCowork. Solar Group forecasts Russia's AI-protection market at 1-2 billion rubles in 2026 (up to 4 billion with services), and T1 reports roughly threefold demand growth over the past year, mostly from banks, industry, government and retail.