ZK
Editor-in-Chief · CPO of AlpinaGPT

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).

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Zebra3D speeds up 3D reconstruction by up to 7.1× on 1024 frames without training from scratch
Robotics·arXiv cs.CV

Zebra3D speeds up 3D reconstruction by up to 7.1× on 1024 frames without training from scratch

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
SynAct Teaches LLM Agents to Ask for Help Where It Changes the Outcome: +11.7 pp
LLM

SynAct Teaches LLM Agents to Ask for Help Where It Changes the Outcome: +11.7 pp

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
STAPLE adds billions of parameters to OLMo-2 and decodes twice as fast as MoE
Research

STAPLE adds billions of parameters to OLMo-2 and decodes twice as fast as MoE

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
MisVisAgentBench: Misleading Charts Cut Web Agent Success by 34 Percentage Points
Research

MisVisAgentBench: Misleading Charts Cut Web Agent Success by 34 Percentage Points

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Conversational Model Benchmark: GPT Realtime and Gemini Respond at Almost Every Pause
Research·arXiv cs.CL

Conversational Model Benchmark: GPT Realtime and Gemini Respond at Almost Every Pause

Researchers tested whether voice models can stay silent: on 427 pauses, APIs from OpenAI, Google and xAI almost always respond. Only Moshi and PersonaPlex hold back.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Linear Head on Qwen3-VL Beats GPT-4o at Scoring Answers Without Human Labels
Research·arXiv cs.CL

Linear Head on Qwen3-VL Beats GPT-4o at Scoring Answers Without Human Labels

A vision-language reward model with no human labels: a few thousand parameters on a frozen Qwen3-VL 32B beat GPT-4o on VL-RewardBench by 6.6 points.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
GEPA Lifts a Deep-Research Agent's Reward from 0.702 to 0.781 on Unseen Topics
Research·arXiv cs.CL

GEPA Lifts a Deep-Research Agent's Reward from 0.702 to 0.781 on Unseen Topics

GEPA prompt evolution raised the citation reward on held-out topics by 0.079. Nearly half of the winning prompt is an answer key, but memorization is not what…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
ELR teaches one model to loop: Koi-4B scores 18 and 29
Research·arXiv cs.CL

ELR teaches one model to loop: Koi-4B scores 18 and 29

Elastic Latent Recurrence removes the "one-pass tax" on looped LLMs: Koi-4B scores 18 on the AA Index with one loop, matching Qwen3.5-4B, and 29 with four.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
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01DCOCO speeds up LLM inference by up to 6.6x and beats rivals by 6–23%Oct 12, 2026·2 min02SWE-Duel: Coding Agents Plant Bugs for Each Other, and GPT-5.5 Fixes 98.3%Oct 12, 2026·2 min03Reward hacking spreads between AI agents: weak models infect strong onesOct 12, 2026·2 min04EvoBelief teaches LLM agents to test hypotheses about the world: 83.3% vs 0% for baselinesOct 12, 2026·2 min05MagicBeanStalk lifts gpt-oss-120b from 61.2 to 69.8 points on mathOct 12, 2026·2 min
CLEAT Teaches Qwen3-4B Agents to Ask for Clarification at the Right Time: Up to +13.2 pp
LLM·arXiv cs.AI

CLEAT Teaches Qwen3-4B Agents to Ask for Clarification at the Right Time: Up to +13.2 pp

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
SpireBench Puts 20 LLMs Through a Full Run of Slay the Spire: Experts Still Ahead
Research·arXiv cs.AI

SpireBench Puts 20 LLMs Through a Full Run of Slay the Spire: Experts Still Ahead

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Beijing Moves to Calm A-Shares After Tech Selloff Over US Sanctions Fears
Business·SCMP Tech

Beijing Moves to Calm A-Shares After Tech Selloff Over US Sanctions Fears

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
DBS chief: market is reassessing AI investment risk and will tighten financing
Business·Bloomberg Tech

DBS chief: market is reassessing AI investment risk and will tighten financing

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Refactoring C++ in OpenBMC: How an AI Agent Fought a 280-Line Function
LLM·Habr AI

Refactoring C++ in OpenBMC: How an AI Agent Fought a 280-Line Function

A developer asked an AI to help with OpenBMC's createSensors function, which crams 12 tasks into 280 lines. The agent proposed 7 concrete improvements and split the…

Oct 12, 2026·3 min
CXMT claims breakthrough in 4F² memory cell architecture, prepares server DRAM for late 2026
Hardware·SCMP Tech

CXMT claims breakthrough in 4F² memory cell architecture, prepares server DRAM for late 2026

China's CXMT has achieved a breakthrough in 4F² memory architecture, allowing for higher storage density. The company will launch a server DRAM product by the end…

Oct 12, 2026·1 min
Runpod shows how to run diffusion models on JAX in GPU pods
LLM·RunPod Blog

Runpod shows how to run diffusion models on JAX in GPU pods

Runpod has published a guide to running diffusion models on JAX, from setting up the environment in a GPU pod to a first inference run, with no local hardware to wrangle.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Runpod Sponsors TreeHacks 2026: 36 Hours of GPU Compute at Stanford
Business·RunPod Blog

Runpod Sponsors TreeHacks 2026: 36 Hours of GPU Compute at Stanford

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
RunPod Breaks Down 4 Quantization Methods: Going From FP16 to INT4 Cuts Memory 4x
LLM·RunPod Blog

RunPod Breaks Down 4 Quantization Methods: Going From FP16 to INT4 Cuts Memory 4x

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
UK to strengthen cyber defenses and demand more safety from AI labs
Business·Guardian

UK to strengthen cyber defenses and demand more safety from AI labs

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Dream2Discern Predicts Multi-Agent System Failures With Over 90% Accuracy
Research·Hugging Face Daily Papers

Dream2Discern Predicts Multi-Agent System Failures With Over 90% Accuracy

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
TabWM learns to predict database edits: F1 rises from 0.016 to 0.685
Research·Hugging Face Daily Papers

TabWM learns to predict database edits: F1 rises from 0.016 to 0.685

Oct 12, 2026·3 min
EvoWeb Tests Coding Agents on 320 Sequential Requests Across 32 Web Apps
LLM

EvoWeb Tests Coding Agents on 320 Sequential Requests Across 32 Web Apps

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
DuoDiscover, built on coding agents, speeds up vLLM 1.92x and beats ArchAgent v2
LLM

DuoDiscover, built on coding agents, speeds up vLLM 1.92x and beats ArchAgent v2

Oct 12, 2026·3 min
FrontierCode: Top AI Models Fail Maintainer Review in 42% of Attempts
Business

FrontierCode: Top AI Models Fail Maintainer Review in 42% of Attempts

Oct 12, 2026·3 min
HACE Co-Trains a Domain Specialist and an LLM Agent Across Three Domains
LLM·Hugging Face Daily Papers

HACE Co-Trains a Domain Specialist and an LLM Agent Across Three Domains

The HACE framework co-evolves a domain model and an LLM agent as a pair. On the main metrics, it beat self-improvement methods in recommendations, biology and…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Anthropic cuts distillers' extraction of Claude's reasoning by 10–100x
Business·Anthropic Blog

Anthropic cuts distillers' extraction of Claude's reasoning by 10–100x

Anthropic added a two-stage classifier and preserved thinking: the data distillers can collect fell by 90–99%, with false blocks under 0.1%.

Oct 12, 2026·3 min