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Alina Fomine

Author at thehype, covering ai and the builders behind it. Alina works across media, partnerships, and ecosystem growth at /function1 – the ai conference connecting startups, founders, and global tech leaders.

ARTICLES BY Alina Fomine

US-flag and red-star race cars trade white flags mid-race, an AI race neither side will slow down.

amodei asked to slow ai down. the us and china chose national leadership over the risk of catastrophe. so what number are we even arguing about?

Alina Fomine 15 Sep 2026 1 min read

Illustrated radio host with a mic in a neon studio beside glowing €3B and $875M figures from this week's AI funding rounds.

top ai investment rounds this week. ex-apple warehouse bots, humanoids playing world tennis champions, and the simulation layer underneath both – three robotics rounds in one week

Alina Fomine 14 Sep 2026 2 min read

Butcher in an OPENROUTER apron cleaves a glowing HY4 steak priced $0.834 beside tiny $0.068 plates, neon #1 behind.

openrouter top 5 by token volume this week

Alina Fomine 11 Sep 2026 1 min read

Hand taps a taped Android phone running a sign language interpreter app between chalk-drawn schools and a vast crowd

google gemma introduced a tool that turned a budget android phone into an offline sign language translator – for 2.5 million deaf indonesians who don't have reliable internet

Alina Fomine 10 Sep 2026 1 min read

Rusty robot labeled Ponytail Lazy Dev lounges, feet on desk, holding an Output: Done sheet – the lazy coding agent skill

github top 5: mattpocock/skills leads, every repo fixes agents

Alina Fomine 10 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man chalks spiral equations while purple servers and a LEAN screen glow behind glass, a nod to the Navier-Stokes proof race

openai solved navier-stokes for $22.5m – breakthrough may have been built on stolen drafts from their codex sessions

Alina Fomine 9 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man opens a barred gate onto a lit basketball court; red meter reads $35K, $40K, $50K, GPU rack on the wall.

renting a gpu costs $35–50k a year. buying one costs $30k and it runs for up to 10 years. speechifyai did the math in 2022 and never rented again

Alina Fomine 8 Sep 2026 1 min read

Woman in a suit pushes against a closed shutter under an IPO countdown clock, an AI chip glowing in a pile of cash below.

anthropic's ipo keeps getting delayed. open-weight models don't wait

Alina Fomine 7 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man at a neon vending machine labeled AI Rounds dispensing cash, cards read Crusoe $3B and Wonderful $550M

top ai investment rounds this week. wonderful hit $5b in 20 months – fastest enterprise ai startup to cross that line this year

Alina Fomine 5 Sep 2026 2 min read

Illustrated night race: neon motorcycles labeled GLM, LUNA, DEEPSEEK, HY4 and HY3 battling for the OpenRouter token lead.

openrouter: glm-5.3 flash volume halved, still #1

Alina Fomine 4 Sep 2026 1 min read

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