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 Adoption: Meta Launches a Cloud for Businesses
Meta is building its own cloud platform to sell AI compute and model access to third-party customers, competing directly with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure…
National Grid Invests $1.75 Billion in US AI Power Company Jouleant
National Grid has announced a $1.75 billion investment in US company Jouleant, a bet on explosive growth in electricity demand from AI data centers.
NVIDIA unveils ASPIRE, a self-improving robotics framework that hits 31% zero-shot on long-horizon tasks
NVIDIA released ASPIRE, a robotics framework that writes and refines control programs, stores verified solutions in a skill library, and applies them to new tasks…
AI Adoption Creates Systemic Risk in Finance
Hon Hai reports 40% sales growth: Nvidia's server assembler rides AI demand
AI for video: Twelve Labs raises $100 million from Amazon
Modal releases a GPU calculator: serverless wins when peak demand exceeds the reservation discount
China freezes self-driving licenses after Baidu robotaxi chaos in Wuhan
China has suspended new autonomous vehicle licenses after a mass breakdown of Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan in March 2026 paralyzed city traffic.
Oracle admits its AI data center bet may not pay off
Oracle has openly warned investors that its huge spending on AI data centers carries a real risk of not paying back, the first major signal of the limits of the AI…
Wayve Technologies becomes first to use the London Stock Exchange's new private market
ChatGPT in Azure: Microsoft Embeds OpenAI for Free
Corporate AI Adoption: 70% of Success Depends on Processes, Not Models
Anthropic could raise $50 billion as investors value the company at $900 billion
Lumo 2.0: Proton's Private Chatbot Offers a ChatGPT Alternative With New Capabilities
On June 30, 2026, Proton released Lumo 2.0, an updated private AI chatbot with expanded capabilities for users who care about data confidentiality.
Mistral AI: Who's Behind Europe's Main Open-Model Rival to OpenAI
Mistral AI, a French company founded in 2023, builds open language models and is taking on OpenAI with the goal of making frontier AI available to everyone.