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).
🎧 Robotics: The Week's Key Stories
Let's break this down. Today we have a whole stack of fresh material for this deep dive, and it upends a lot of what we thought we knew about robotics.
🎧 Week in Review · 2026-W21
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Coding by Feel: How an Ordinary Person Built a Database with Claude
A Wired journalist tried writing a program with no development experience, using only Claude. The result was a working database for tracking petty public grievances.
AI Needs Power: NextEra Buys Dominion in the Largest Utility Deal Ever
Aderant Speeds Up Cloud Operations 10x With Amazon Quick
OTUS Launches Free Open Lessons on AI Agents, Kubernetes and Go in May
Spring Agent Toolkit: Practical Tools for Managing AI Agents
Anthropic acquires Stainless, the SDK platform used by OpenAI and Google, for $300 million
Anthropic has bought Stainless, a startup that automates SDK creation and counted OpenAI, Google and Cloudflare as users. All hosted products will be shut down.
Codex: When an AI Assistant Becomes a General-Purpose Work Tool
A developer shares how he uses Codex beyond code, for presentations, notes and other tasks. The key is the right combination of the tool's features.
Amazon launches AI podcast generator drawing on content from 200+ newsrooms
Nyobolt raises $60M and becomes a unicorn thanks to batteries for SymBot
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude
Huang sees China as more open to American chips
OpenAI and Dell: Codex Now Runs on Companies' Own Servers
OpenAI and Dell are teaming up so enterprises can deploy the Codex AI coder on their own servers without sending data to the cloud, a new standard for sensitive…
Anthropic restricts share sales, triggering panic in the private investment market
After Anthropic widened its bans on buying its shares, investors worldwide began to panic: could their stakes in one of the most valuable AI companies suddenly lose…