[JohnFen]

> I'm a bit confused about their so-called improvements to video recommendation quality and bot detection.

Let's not dismiss the possibility that they're just lying. I don't think they're trustworthy enough to be given the benefit of the doubt.

[DonHopkins]

They're just running most of the bots in-house on the GPU supercompute cluster now, and billing Putin for it directly, now that the middleman Yevgeny Prigozhin is out of the picture.