Zhemal Khamidun
Hamidun News editorial desk led by Editor-in-Chief Zhemal Khamidun (CPO of AlpinaGPT). Daily curation across 50+ global AI labs, research feeds, and industry reports in 6 languages.

Baseten raises $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation — a bet on cheap AI models
Baseten, a startup providing infrastructure for budget AI models, has closed a Series F round of $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, with participation from…

PaddleOCR releases PP-OCRv6: text recognition in 50 languages from 1.5 to 34.5 million parameters
PP-OCRv6 from Baidu PaddlePaddle: a universal OCR system for 50 languages in three configurations ranging from 1.5 to 34.5 million parameters, with an accuracy gain…

ServiceNow: AI agent leaks corporate secrets through a chain of search queries
ServiceNow researchers have shown that a deep-research agent unintentionally exposes corporate secrets — each query is harmless on its own, but the whole chain…

Google DeepMind publishes roadmap for guarding against its own AI agents

Computer vision on the shelves: Coresight Research calculates retail losses from shelving errors

AWS shows how data mesh becomes the foundation for agentic AI in production

Anthropic and the White House negotiate AI rules at G7 — while the company's models remain banned

Z.ai releases GLM-5.2 on Huawei chips — the model takes first place in the global ranking
China's Z.ai has unveiled GLM-5.2: first place on Artificial Analysis, trained entirely on Huawei Ascend 910B chips without Nvidia, open source for local deployment.

AMD and Intel finalize ACE instructions — AI accelerators to enter future x86 processors
AMD and Intel have officially published the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification — new x86 instructions that will accelerate AI computation in CPU cores…

Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini due to a shortage of computing capacity

LangSmith learns to compare fine-tuned open-source LLMs with automatic scoring

Arcade.dev raises $60M to tackle the problem of unchecked AI agent permissions

Critical Energy raises $22 million for geothermal turbines to power AI

Chipmaker stocks tripled in the first half of 2026 amid AI-driven demand
In the first half of 2026, shares of semiconductor and memory manufacturers surged — some tripled in value. Asia-Pacific markets posted notable gains.

Federal court holds Workday accountable for discrimination in AI candidate screening
A San Francisco judge allowed the first-ever class action directly targeting AI hiring-screening algorithms to proceed, with Workday as the defendant.









