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).

Adobe Buys Topaz Labs, Bringing AI Upscaling Tools into Creative Cloud
Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs, the developer of AI algorithms for upscaling and denoising photos and video, whose products professionals regard as the benchmark.

NEA investor: Uber burned through its annual AI budget in months as the market demands returns
The unchecked-AI-usage fad left Uber over its annual budget. NEA investor Tiffany Luck says the market has entered an era of strict ROI auditing.

Mistral AI gives admins fine-grained control over enterprise connectors
Mistral AI has shipped six new features for enterprise connectors: tool-level controls, multi-account support and a debugger for MCP connections.

Malaysia's Respond.io raises $62.5M for AI agents on business messaging apps

GitHub Joins Coalition Over Clash Between California AI Transparency Law and Open Source

Elastic to buy startup Deductive AI for up to $85M in AI bug-fixing deal

Claude and AI agents burn through tokens faster than forecast, and businesses are learning "tokenomics"

AI labs are paying XDOF to collect robot training data, and it's grueling, unglamorous work
Physical AI faces the same problem LLMs did early on: too little training data. Labs are hiring companies like XDOF to solve it by hand.

Startup Probably raises $9M to make AI as accurate as ordinary code
US startup Probably has raised $9M to build AI that does not hallucinate, with the accuracy of deterministic software.

US Government Discloses 3,611 Uses of AI in Federal Agencies

How to Design Tools for AI Agents: Practices That Work and Common Mistakes

Enflame wins IPO approval for $888M, the last of China's "four AI dragons"

NewCore raises $66M to give AI agents corporate IDs

Schneider Electric and Foxconn Team Up to Build Next-Generation AI Data Centers
The French energy management leader and the world's largest contract electronics maker have agreed to jointly design infrastructure for AI data centers.

MCP agents in the enterprise: how SimpleOne and Ainergy built AI into business processes
SimpleOne and Ainergy built MCP agents into their enterprise platform. The AI no longer just helps with text: it creates tasks, checks statuses and works with…









