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).
1.2 billion faces in a pocket: how DHS turned the US into a digital panopticon
While you argue about ChatGPT hallucinations, US border agents are scanning faces against a database of a billion images. Here's how it works and why anonymity is…
The 2026 AI Zoo: How to Keep Your Sanity Amid a Flood of Tools
In 2026, neural networks are routine, but choosing among them has gotten harder. We went through 25 services so you don't waste time on digital junk.
Palantir and Credal AI: US Health Department Screens Grants for 'Correctness'
The US Department of Health has turned AI into a political censor. Palantir and Credal AI now scan grant applications for traces of DEI and gender ideology, so…
AI Shopping: Why Algorithms Sell Better Than People (Mostly)
SpaceX and xAI: Musk Assembles a Trillion-Dollar Construction Set Ahead of an IPO
Palantir stock: when the earnings delight and the price tag scares
OpenAI vs. xAI: Elon Musk and the Case of the Missing Evidence
SpaceX and xAI: Elon Musk Is Building an Engineering Behemoth in Pursuit of AGI
Elon Musk wants to merge SpaceX and xAI while Oracle borrows $50 billion to build new cloud data centers. The tech landscape is shifting for good.
Waymo: $16 Billion to Make You Forget About Drivers for Good
Alphabet and a group of investors have valued Waymo at $126 billion. It is more than a funding round: it is a formal bid to become the transport monopolist of the…
Body Armor for Your Neural Network: Why One Safety Filter Isn't Enough for Your LLM
Musk's Empire: Why SpaceX Is Absorbing xAI, and What Mars Has to Do With It
China's State AI Fund Bets on Newcomers: Why Beijing Is Backing Xin Xin Hang Tu
SpaceX and xAI: Musk Puts a Trillion-Dollar Puzzle Under One Roof
Xinmier: Chips That Sense and Compute at the Same Time
Chinese startup Xinmier has closed two funding rounds worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Its "sensor-compute" architecture aims to challenge Western giants in…
Shanghai Bets on "AI+": 50 New Factories and an Army of Digital Agents
Shanghai is becoming a global testbed for "AI+". Its mayor promised 50 smart factories and sweeping digitalization. Why does China want so much "smart" hardware?