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).

Russia's Digital Ministry Promises LTE in All Small Villages by 2030: 8 Thousand Already Connected
Minister Shadaev promises internet in all small settlements by the end of 2030. LTE has reached 8 thousand settlements in six years, with 1.8 thousand more planned…

Mobile carriers to start blocking unlabeled calls from seven banks on October 15
From October 15, 2026, carriers will stop connecting unlabeled calls from VTB, Sberbank, Alfa-Bank and four other banks. The banks themselves warned of the measures…

inDrive Gets "Tens of Thousands" of Driver Applications After Yandex Go Outage in Kazakhstan
inDrive founder Arsen Tomsky reports "tens of thousands" of new driver applications as the service saw a surge of passengers and orders during a Yandex Go outage in…

Moscow Begins Nationalizing Ural Plants: A Co-Owner Is a Moldovan Citizen

Unitree Founder: GPT-6 Could Trigger a Robotics Breakthrough as Early as 2027

Karpathy at Anthropic: 5000 People See an AI the Rest of Us Don't

Google replaces Fitbit Charge 6 with $180 Edge band built around Google Health

SoftBank-Backed Payments Firm OPay Prepares $500 Million IPO in New York
Fintech OPay, backed by SoftBank, plans to raise about $500 million through a private placement and an IPO in New York, according to Bloomberg's sources.

Cyberattacks Knock Out Refrigeration Systems at Hundreds of Supermarkets in France
Hackers hit hundreds of French stores overnight into Monday: refrigeration shut down and spoiled food had to be thrown out. Details of the attack have not been…

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan Compares AI Investing to Gambling

AI Crawlers See an Empty Shell Instead of Your Site: They Don't Execute JavaScript

Generative Photos in E-Commerce Are Eroding Trust: A Picture No Longer Guarantees the Product

A Production AI Agent Error Can Cost Anywhere From $812 to $100 Billion in Market Cap

DeepSeek to lead seed round for robotics startup Winverse AI at a $400 million valuation
Bloomberg reports DeepSeek will lead Winverse AI's first round: tens of millions of dollars at a post-money valuation of about $400 million.

Botvinick in the Guardian: AI Safety Hinges on the Health of Democracy
Neuroscientist Matthew Botvinick ties AI safety to the fate of democracy: threats from cyberattacks to hyper-persuasion hit the institutions meant to contain them.









