Zhemal Khamidun
Hamidun News editorial desk led by Editor-in-Chief Zhemal Khamidun (CPO of AlpinaGPT). Daily curation across 50+ global AI labs, research feeds, and industry reports in 6 languages.

vLLM Teaches Decode Nodes to Send KV Cache Back, Cutting TTFT by Up to 3.3x
vLLM now supports bidirectional KV cache transfer: prefill nodes pull precomputed context from decode nodes, cutting time to first token on long conversations by up…

Alignment Forum Proposes 4 Steps: Next-Generation AI Only After Vetting the Current One
An Alignment Forum post proposes a minimum pace standard: a lab should not train its next model generation until it has resolved the significant alignment problems…

Nicolas Cage Says He Will No Longer Work With Amazon Over an AI Dispute
The actor publicly ruled out new projects with Amazon after an AI-related conflict. The LA Times piece drew 56 points and 19 comments on Hacker News in its first…

ChatGPT Co-Creator Liam Fedus: After OpenAI's 722 Manuscripts, AI Should Move Into the Lab

Google Faces Protests in India Over $15 Billion AI Data Center

Google Faces Local Protests Over 1 GW Data Center in Visakhapatnam

Yandex Gradually Restores Alice, Search and Maps After Attack on Its Data Centers

Ten Minutes With AI Reduce Persistence on Hard Problems, Berkeley Study Finds
A UC Berkeley study claims just 10 minutes of working with AI weakens the ability to keep grinding at a hard problem. The Hacker News post drew 55 points and 65…

BBC: AI Is Devaluing Images and Raising the Price of Human-Made Work
The cheaper image generation gets, the more authorship is worth. BBC describes a "human premium" on art, and Hacker News collected 78 comments under the piece.

Agentic search on open-source models: who it found, what it cost, and where it all broke

Developer Spends $9,000 on AI Agents and Ships Crossweft, an Open-Source Plugin

Social network Setlog hits 10 million active users in under a year

Zuckerberg Rushed Launch of the Muse AI Agent Even Though Tests Flagged Three Classes of Risk

How to Build a RAG Bot on a T4 for Civics Textbooks: Qwen Instead of Web Search
A RAG bot for 9th and 10th grade civics textbooks runs on a free T4 in Colab. Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct searches for answers in specific paragraphs via FAISS, not the…

Netflix Reportedly Preparing to Cut About 850 Employees, 5% of Staff, According to Puck
Puck, citing sources, reports that Netflix may lay off about 5% of its workforce, or roughly 850 people. The company has not yet officially confirmed the report.









