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).
Hugging Face: transformers backend in vLLM now runs at native speed
Hugging Face announced performance parity: the `--model-impl transformers` flag delivers native vLLM speed across 450+ architectures without rewriting code.
Microsoft lays off 4,800 employees: commercial sales and Xbox divisions affected
Microsoft laid off about 4,800 employees on July 8, 2026 (2.1% of its workforce) — the cuts affected commercial sales and Xbox divisions at the start of the new…
Employees are leaking corporate data into ChatGPT: volume grew 30-fold in a year
Solar Group analyzed 150 companies and found that 60% of them do not control data transfers to public AI services — and this is already exposing them to fines.
2026 chronicle: which tech companies officially cited AI as the reason for layoffs
Crypto venture fund Paradigm raises $1.2 billion to bet on AI and robotics
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: 1 trillion tokens a day and the split between AI models and agents
Citi analyst calls infrastructure software the top bet in the AI trade era
AI technically executed the first ransomware attack, but a human selected the target and provided access
An AI agent technically executed a real ransomware attack for the first time, but a human operator chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied the…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on mobile devices and in the browser
Anthropic has opened access to the Claude Cowork collaboration platform for iOS, Android, and browsers — it was previously available only in desktop apps.
Discord admits AI moderation error: hundreds of accounts blocked over harmless photos
Microsoft bets on in-house AI models to cut costs
AWS presented two WAF protection patterns for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
China prepares reciprocal measures: foreigners may lose access to advanced AI models
Together AI launches guaranteed inference for open models with 99% SLA
Together AI introduced Provisioned Throughput — reserved inference capacity for MiniMax M3 and GLM-5.2 with 99% uptime SLA and savings of up to 90% compared with…
Australian government: women and university graduates at highest risk of replacement by AI
Australia's first national report on AI's impact on employment: telemarketers, advertising professionals and accountants are in the highest-risk group…