Zhemal Khamidun
Head of AI at Alpina Digital, CPO of AlpinaGPT (~30-person engineering & AI team). Founder of Vibe Academy & Hamidun Consulting, author of the AI channel «Готовим ИИшницу» (@jemal_hamidun).
AI startup LinqAlpha from former Goldman Sachs analyst raises $22 million
LinqAlpha, a company in AI investment research, founded by ex-Goldman Sachs analyst, is close to closing Series A round of $22 million. Round investors not yet…
LingRui ZhiXin raises hundreds of millions of yuan for RISC-V chips for AI agents
Chinese startup LingRui ZhiXin closed a funding round of hundreds of millions of yuan for developing RISC-V cores and agent CPUs for AI computing.
ByteDance and Alibaba disable AI companions in China ahead of new regulations taking effect
ByteDance and Alibaba have begun disabling AI companion features that mimic human behavior and emotions—new regulations for such services take effect in mid-July in…
Spyware Pegasus infected phone of EU lawmaker investigating surveillance in European Union
China Telecom becomes shareholder in AI content-security startup Zhongke Ruijian
Chipmaker stocks surge as investors bet on continued AI rally
Simon Willison's sqlite-utils 4.0 adds database schema migrations
Xbox cuts 3,200 employees—roughly 20% of staff—as part of Microsoft restructuring
Microsoft announced 3,200 job cuts in its Xbox division—approximately 20% of staff—as part of a restructuring of its troubled gaming business.
US Commerce Department requires Samsung and SK Hynix to increase AI memory chip production
US Commerce Secretary Howard Latnik called on Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip manufacturing in the US amid a shortage of AI components.
Somalia joined India's protest against WhatsApp's transition to usernames
Somalia supported India in dispute with Meta over WhatsApp usernames due to security threats
AI chip maker Syntiant filed for IPO with Intel support
Capital expenditures for data center construction in Russia will fall by 30%
MIT graduate student Rachel Sawa researches the future of neurotechnology and its risks
MIT graduate student Rachel Sawa received the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize for her research on the benefits and dystopian risks of future…
Tech stock selloff in US crashed shares of chip makers in Japan and Korea
On July 2, 2026, shares of chip manufacturers in Japan and South Korea fell sharply following a selloff of technology stocks on Wall Street and news of Apple's…