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).

Guardian: UK AI data centre plans are 'complete nonsense', Scottish project in doubt
Guardian: Britain's AI growth zones are unrealistic. The Lanarkshire data centre in Scotland will not meet its renewable energy pledges by 2030, and sources call…

Residents of Newarthill, Scotland: Oakes Energy's AI Data Centre Turned Out to Be a Deception
Oakes Energy Services promised Lanarkshire residents jobs and green benefits from an AI data centre. Instead, people risk losing their homes and their green belt.

"SaaSpocalypse": Why Replacing SaaS With AI-Written Code Costs More Than It Seems
Replacing SaaS with your own AI-written code is cheaper only at first glance: maintenance, security and updates can cost more than any enterprise subscription.

Startup Turing lands AMD Ventures investment and moves to AMD accelerators

First clinical trials of treatments for rare Bundibugyo Ebola strain begin in DRC

TikTok weighs cutting 300 jobs at its Dublin hub in Europe

Australian authors demand the government not hand their books to AI companies for free

Hugging Face updates Kernels with trusted publishers, code signing and agent-driven development
On July 6, 2026, Hugging Face shipped a major Kernels update: kernels are now a separate repository type on the Hub, with trusted publishers and code signing via…

VK builds Discovery AI, a neural search engine for the multibillion-item content base of Dzen and VK Video
A lead VK developer has detailed the architecture of Discovery AI, an LLM-based search and recommendation system for Dzen, VKontakte, VK Video and Mail.

A Reinforcement Learning tutorial with no math: just code for programmers

ByteDance and Alibaba Shut Down AI Companions Ahead of New Beijing Rules

South Korea to channel AI-boom tax windfall from Samsung and SK hynix into a youth fund

Ford rehires hundreds of engineers as employers regret mass AI layoffs

UN: AI capabilities are advancing faster than governments can regulate them
The UN has published a report to open the Geneva dialogue on AI: no state is keeping pace in understanding, testing or regulating the capabilities of modern…

Shampoo and Cookies: Procter & Gamble Turns to AI for Product Development
Procter & Gamble and other major manufacturers are rebuilding their R&D labs: algorithms now help create shampoo formulas, cookie recipes and other products.









