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).

Cohere Merges With Aleph Alpha, Backed by Schwarz, to Build Sovereign AI
Cohere is acquiring Aleph Alpha and, with Schwarz Group, building a Canadian-German sovereign AI player for banks, government, defense and other regulated…

Anthropic opens Claude to Spotify, Uber and TurboTax through personal connectors
Anthropic has expanded Claude's ecosystem: the assistant now connects to Spotify, Uber, Instacart and TurboTax, suggests the right service mid-conversation and asks…

DeepSeek unveils V4: a Chinese open-source model takes on OpenAI and Google
DeepSeek has released a preview of V4, an open model focused on coding, agentic tasks and Huawei support, saying it can compete with systems from OpenAI, Google and…

Apple's Mac mini shortage pushes eBay prices up as demand for local AI grows

Nothing launches Essential Voice, an AI dictation tool for smartphones supporting more than 100 languages

DeepSeek unveils two new AI models, claims it has nearly closed the gap with market leaders

Signull Labs' Skye raises $3.58M before launching its AI home screen for iPhone

Choco uses OpenAI to automate food distribution and double sales productivity
Choco built the OpenAI API into order processing across email, SMS, photos and phone calls, cutting manual entry by up to 50% and moving order intake to 24/7.

OpenAI releases Symphony: an open orchestration standard for Codex agents
OpenAI has unveiled Symphony, an open orchestration spec that turns task trackers into always-on agent systems built on Codex, aiming to raise engineering…

OpenAI Is Reportedly Building a Smartphone Where AI Agents Replace Apps

China blocks Meta's $2 billion purchase of startup Manus after months-long investigation

Canva apologizes after its AI swapped "Palestine" for "Ukraine" in user designs

Musk v. Altman: $150 Billion Trial Over Control of OpenAI Opens in the US

Multibillion-Dollar Deal: Meta Moves AI Agents to Amazon Graviton5 Processors
A $135 billion budget wasn't enough. Meta has struck a landmark deal with Amazon to power a new generation of autonomous AI agents on ARM-based processors.

The Price of Intelligence: How Elon Musk's Mega Data Center Is Changing Memphis's Environment
AI smells of soot and asphalt. xAI's mega data center in Memphis, which needs the power of a whole metropolis, exposes the real environmental cost of training AI.









