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).

Lightelligence soars 400% after IPO on a bet on optical interconnect for AI
Lightelligence nearly quadrupled on its first day of trading in Hong Kong, as investors bet AI infrastructure's next bottleneck won't be chips but the links between…

Kakao Mobility unveils Level 4 roadmap for autonomous driving and physical AI
Kakao Mobility plans to build its own Level 4 autopilot in-house, is developing a safety platform, and is preparing an open set of data, maps and APIs for the…

OpenAI bans Codex from talking about goblins and pigeons in its AI agent instructions
Codex's system instructions contain an explicit ban on mentioning goblins, trolls and pigeons, likely because of odd model behavior in agent mode.

Qwen 3.6 Plus Beats DeepSeek V4 Pro in Russian Battle Test and Costs Less

Sber releases Kandinsky 6.0 Image Pro, a single model for image generation and editing

NASA and SETI outline foundation models for astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life

How Cursor Produced a $180, Three-Day Prototype That Split a Development Team

Eclipse hires first chief AI officer from Meta to speed up AI adoption across its portfolio
Venture firm Eclipse has appointed its first Chief AI Officer, a hire from Meta, to help portfolio companies adopt AI as a working tool rather than a fashionable…

Billionaire Chen Tianqiao splits MiroMind between China and the US after the Manus affair
After the blocked Meta–Manus deal, Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao is restructuring MiroMind and banning the exchange of code and data between its Chinese and US…

Poland warns of more cyberattacks as advanced AI tools spread

China blocks Meta's purchase of Manus, a profitable AI startup from the PRC

Freepik becomes Magnific, folding its AI tools into a profitable platform with $230M in revenue

Encoders in AI: How They Evolved from Simple Schemes to Multimodal Systems

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs. Claude Sonnet 4.6 on 50 tasks: where it saves money and where it adds risk
A 50-task test built from a Russian developer's real workload shows DeepSeek V4 is far cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 but errs more often on calculations, OCR and…

Cleveland-Cliffs launches three-year AI rollout with Palantir
US steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs has signed a three-year deal with Palantir to deploy AI across its operations chain and speed up the modernization of its plants.









