AUTHOR

Vladimir Arustamov

Program director at /function1 AI Conference & Exhibition, leading agenda and speakers. Since 2025, running AI automation across multiple products including SEO4Agent (agent-readiness audit tool) and thehype Radio (AI-powered live radio station).

ARTICLES BY Vladimir Arustamov

A gloved hand cuts a watermelon in half; one half is a green circuit board with an AI chip, a hologram pagoda behind it

the week in ai: muse wonder, gemini 4 argon, krea 3, roadster

Vladimir Arustamov 16 Oct 2026 3 min read

Sabi's $50M bet on thought-to-text: a man in an EEG cap presses Enter while an AI figure reads his thoughts as code

sabi raises $50m for a thought-to-text cap but shows no error rate

Vladimir Arustamov 9 Oct 2026 3 min read

Anthropic's OSS Scanner hunting open-source vulnerabilities: an engineer cracks a green crystal as a scan runs

anthropic oss scanner skips human review: 88% of findings held up

Vladimir Arustamov 8 Oct 2026 3 min read

Man with a robotic arm stamps "FREE WEEK" in green spray paint on a server cabinet in a graffiti-covered server room

step 5 preview: 48% cheaper per task than gpt-5.6 sol, 1.7x the tokens

Vladimir Arustamov 8 Oct 2026 3 min read

A green robot in a suit and a man play chess with a stapler and a laptop in a graffiti basement office

gemini becomes an agent for work – the app has 1b users

Vladimir Arustamov 8 Oct 2026 3 min read

Illustration: a man in a brown jacket touches a glowing retro computer showing a leaderboard, with stars and pixel platforms

google playground – can you take a game out?

Vladimir Arustamov 7 Oct 2026 4 min read

mistral large 4: strong on cyber, but still behind china and the us

Vladimir Arustamov 6 Oct 2026 9 min read

Illustration of a man pulling a black cloth off a glowing box of colored lights labeled Dots as a crowd films with phones

openai devday 2026: 8x faster, 5x cheaper, 1.2b users

Vladimir Arustamov 3 Oct 2026 4 min read

Illustration of a humanoid robot on a living room couch as a man walks in, for a story on robot companions at home

your next friend will be a robot

Vladimir Arustamov 29 Sep 2026 8 min read

Codex pets: a young man on a rooftop hatches a pixel pet on his laptop as pigeons watch

codex pets: how to use them, install new ones and make your own (we built one)

Vladimir Arustamov 26 Sep 2026 13 min read

Punk-style dev staples $2M prize notes to a graffiti wall as coders watch, evoking Meta Connect's developer payouts.

meta is paying developers to build on it: its top model at up to 80% off and $2m in prizes

Vladimir Arustamov 24 Sep 2026 2 min read

Holographic AI agent pushes a cart past a startled cashier as a register shows Shop Pay Approved in a graffiti-lit store.

meta connect 2026 day 1 – the best of zuckerberg's keynote

Vladimir Arustamov 24 Sep 2026 1 min read

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