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).

Laid-Off Meta Employees Fail to Prove in Court That AI Was Used to Pick Layoffs
Laid-off Meta employees accuse the company of using discriminatory AI to build layoff lists, but proving the technology was actually used has turned out to be…

How MTS Is Teaching a Humanoid with a VLA Model to Grab Objects Moving on a Conveyor
MTS's Physical AI R&D team is building a VLA policy for a humanoid: it picks up an object from a table with confidence, but misses when the object rides a conveyor.

Python: How the Slowest Programming Language Became the King of Neural Networks
Created back in 1991, Python had a reputation as a slow language, yet by 2026 it became the main tool of machine learning and data science. Here's how and why that…

BlackRock Raises $12 Billion for Meta's Texas Data Center — and Owns It Itself

Deezer: Over 50% of Uploaded Music Is Now AI-Generated, and Most of It Is Streaming Fraud

SkyPilot Raises $20M From Lux Capital: A "Switzerland" for AI Compute From Databricks Co-Founders

US Treasury vs. Nvidia: Jensen Huang Pushes Back on Sanctions Against Chinese AI

AI Boom Revives Demand for Hard Drives as HDD Component Makers Expand Capacity
The AI boom has revived demand for classic hard drives: servers and data centers need cheap bulk storage, and HDD component makers are expanding capacity.

Vibe Coding for Infosec: NtechLab Builds Its Heimdall Data Leak Protection System
NtechLab's security director is trying to build Heimdall, an in-house data leak protection system, by vibe coding: a neural network does the work, with no team of…

Alphabet Under Investor Pressure: July 22 Earnings Report Must Show AI Payoff

QED Investors' Nigel Morris: Why AI Will Reshape Finance More Than Any Previous Wave

Kingsoft's WPS AI Tops TableBench Methods Leaderboard With 72.54 Points

Samsung in talks to invest up to €1 billion in Mistral, valuing it at about €20 billion

Moonshot AI Raising at a $50B Valuation: Kimi's Creator Opens Two Rounds Back to Back
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is closing a round at a $31.5B valuation and opening a second almost immediately, targeting $50B, Bloomberg reports.

Anthropic to pay Harry Potter publisher millions under $1.5 billion settlement
Bloomsbury, the Harry Potter publisher, has received a multimillion-dollar payout as a party to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over training…









