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.
Paul Christiano joined OpenAI's Foundation Board on Sep 9, 2026 — and in his personal statement warned of near-term catastrophic loss-of-control risk, AI R&D automation, intelligence explosion, and RL-driven misalignment. Full breakdown.
Q2D-Web benchmarks first-stage retrievers in agentic RAG: 190M docs, 70K agent queries, 99.6 positive labels each. Why human-query benchmarks miss the mark.
Sam Altman reportedly declined a US government equity stake in OpenAI after months of reported discussions. What was on the table and why it matters.
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to restrict superintelligent AI development after an Anthropic leader cited a 10% human extinction risk.
Self-evolving coding agents don't retrain the model — a second writer edits what the next session loads. How Hermes, Prime Agent, and Live-SWE differ.
Sergey Brin is reportedly taking a hands-on role again at Google, focused on a recursive self-improvement push for Gemini 4. What that actually means.
Spotify's Portal and shunt plugin route bulk file reads to a cheaper model to cut Claude Code token costs 90%. Here's how it works and what critics found.
Suno launched v6 AI music models built on licensed deals with Warner Music and BMG, following a legal settlement. What changed and what it means.
A builder trained a computer vision tennis coach using Roboflow Agent, Claude Code, and a fine-tuned RF-DETR model. Here's the full pipeline.
Unity launched a first-party Claude Code plugin with 29 native Unity skills, CLI workflows, and direct Editor control — one install, no config.
Intelligence explosion, explained: I.J. Good's 1965 origin, the recursive feedback loop, how it differs from the singularity, and 2026 evidence.
RSI explained: what recursive self-improvement actually means, Weco's 4-level ladder, real 2026 systems, and why "ignition" is the risk threshold.
