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).

Google Faces Local Protests Over 1 GW Data Center in Visakhapatnam
Residents of Visakhapatnam, India, are pushing back on Google's gigawatt campus, part of a $15 billion plan. Their main complaints: electricity, water and jobs.

Yandex Gradually Restores Alice, Search and Maps After Attack on Its Data Centers
Yandex says it is restoring Alice, Search, Maps and other services in stages after an attack on its data centers. The scale of the outage and the type of attack…

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…

Boring Robots vs. Viral Robots: Why Form Should Follow Process

Tim Cook Visits China for the Third Time This Year as iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Duo Face Their Test

LIBERO-MAX Runs Robots Through 224,000 Simulations With a Moving Object

Terence Tao Gives Caltech Lecture "Math 2.0" on Machine-Assisted Proofs

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.

Nadella Proposes an "Emergency Braking" for AI and Treating Models as Compromised

A Reagan-era promise returns: Trump sells AI growth instead of self-funding tax cuts

The Verge Launches a Local AI Diary: Hermes, Qwen and a Mac Studio

arXiv caps authors at two papers a month as AI submissions surge

Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Replace AI With Super Intelligence
Trump's order tells federal agencies to write SI instead of AI: the president thinks the word "artificial" sounds "fake." China's term 人工智能 is built on a different…

Sumitomo Bakelite to Double Packaging Materials Production in China Amid AI Demand Surge
Sumitomo Bakelite is expanding packaging materials production in Suzhou and Singapore — its second such announcement in under four months. MUF material volumes will…









