Expert profile
Founder & AI Product Leader
Yash Thakker is a Generative AI expert with over 12 years of experience in product leadership and technical strategy. As the founder of explainx.ai, he has taught over 300,000 learners and built AI platforms serving millions of users globally. He specializes in Agentic AI, Multimodal RAG, and the intersection of LLMs with consumer hardware.
Xiaomi shipped MiMo-V2.6 Flash and Pro with full open weights and a public RL training dashboard, topping the intelligence-vs-cost frontier on AA.
A #1 Hacker News disclosure shows ChatGPT sets a cross-site ad-tracking cookie called __obi. Here's the mechanism, what data it carries, and how to block it.
A digest claims Claude factored RSA-896, a 270-digit number never publicly broken. No source exists yet — what to verify, why RSA-2048 stays safe either way.
A Reddit post claims Anthropic is stealth testing Opus 5.5 as claude-wafer-eap, landing Tuesday. No source, no proof — here's what's real.
Python Workers are GA on Cloudflare — native FastAPI, Django, and Flask, Hyperdrive Postgres/MySQL, and PEP 783's new PyEmscripten wheel standard.
DocJev, from LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu, uses Jev to classify and split documents — reportedly 6x faster, with a small, flagged accuracy pilot.
GLM-5.3 FlashX debuts on OpenRouter and Nous Portal at 200 tok/s. What we know, what's unconfirmed, and how it compares to GLM-5.3-Flash and Cerebras.
Google's AX hit #1 on Hacker News with 179 points as "Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator" — Task, Workspace, Gateway, Model explained.
Google opened Googlebook preorders on September 21, 2026, with 2.8K OLED touchscreens, 14-hour battery, and Gemini Intelligence baked in. Here's what shipped versus May's teaser, and how it stacks up against Copilot+ PCs and Apple silicon Macs.
A viral X thread claims GPT-6 Sol ships Tuesday, an internal OpenAI model called "Bel" is considered AGI, and Anthropic is rushing Opus 5.5. None of it is confirmed — here's what to actually watch for.
A remote-controlled EngineAI T800 and Unitree H1 fought a human in San Francisco. Teleoperated, not autonomous — why that distinction matters.
A practical framework for placing cheap Jev checks at agent-pipeline handoffs — after retrieval, before drafting, before final answer — with real cost math and where the pattern actually breaks.
