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).

M.Video Restores Website and App After Cloud Provider Outage
The outage at a cloud provider began on 11 October and hit checkout, delivery and order statuses. The website and app are back, but some services are running slower.

Rutube Is Preparing AI Assistants for Parents: TV Accounts for 75% of Family Viewing
Rutube expects AI assistants for parents. In Q3 2026, TV accounted for 75% of family viewing, and AI reviews 2.5 to 3 million videos a month.

Apple to release OLED iPad mini in late October with a $200 price hike
Bloomberg reports Apple will unveil a new iPad mini in late October 2026: OLED instead of IPS, a redesigned body and a $200 price increase over the current model.

Post on AI Companies and "Hacking" Hits 205 Points and 164 Comments on Hacker News

Daifuku Says Real-Time Execution Is Now the Key Metric for Warehouse Automation

Microsoft to make Maia chips the backbone of its inference and scale to gigawatts by 2027

Microsoft Research Unveils StudentSim, a Student Simulator for AI Tutors

AWS shows how to run a single LLM across two GPU nodes on EKS with Ray LLM DLC
AWS Machine Learning Blog details deploying one LLM on two Amazon EKS GPU nodes: prefill and decode run on separate nodes, with a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint…

AWS shows how to run llama.cpp on SageMaker and get probabilities over a set of options
AWS published a guide to deploying llama.cpp on SageMaker AI: an OpenAI-format chat API plus SemIf, an extension that returns probabilities over predefined options…

Larry McDonald: AI Mark-Ups Distort the Real Earnings of S&P 500 Companies

IonQ to Buy Cybersecurity Firm Elisity for Up to $1.3 Billion Ahead of Q-Day

How an LLM Agent Works: Context, Tools, and the Feedback Loop

Habr Deep Dive: Why r.Context() Doesn't Stop an LLM, and How to Build AI Tasks in Go

Fitbit Edge: Between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air — Google's New $180 Tracker
Google has launched the Fitbit Edge, an activity tracker slotting between the affordable Fitbit Air and the premium Pixel Watch 5. The device features on-device…

Guardian columnist finds AI job interview 'dystopian'
After 15 years of work, a Guardian columnist sat his first AI-led interview for an early-years education job and called the experience dehumanizing.









