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.
SpaceXAI's Imagine Image 2.0 ranks #2 on Arena's image leaderboards and shipped on Vercel AI Gateway — swap it in with one model-ID change, no separate xAI API key required.
Spotify launched Xirp on August 10, 2026 — a vendor-neutral environment that manages 50+ parallel Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex sessions in isolated worktrees. What it does, who's using it, and how it compares to OpenCode.
Independent researcher bobdahacker found tl;dv's Firestore had no tenant isolation, exposing 181,874 meetings and letting anyone join live calls.
Zuckerberg's August 10 essay on meta.com expands his access-to-AI thesis and says Meta "will resume releasing some open source models soon." Here's what it argues and how the FT read it.
seg6 rooted a Nothing CMF Phone 1 to replace a Hetzner VPS: Termux, runit, Caddy, Cloudflare Tunnel. Battery and bootloader caveats, Aug 2026.
Higgsfield offers up to 33 days of unlimited Seedance 2.5 video — capped at 720p, not the model's native 4K. Here's what each plan actually gets.
Willison's Aug 7 Black Hat video timeline: May RL training to July 20, when OpenAI asked HF to revoke creds already revoked.
os8088 is a Mac System 1-style GUI for the IBM PC/XT with pre-emptive multitasking. How it differs from DOS and GEM, and how to run it today.
Thariq joked Claude reverse-engineered a "1996 handheld" system with zero source access. Here's what Gen1Recomp and its free-roam Kanto mod actually are, and why the joke doesn't hold up as a literal claim.
Alex Getman’s Claude Code + GPT-5.6 Sol proxy got an Anthropic ban. Boris unblocked it as a classifier miss; Tibo reset Work/Codex weekly limits.
Inside China humanoid robot schools: Shanghai + Hangzhou academies, 45 atomic skills, 50K daily data points, and what it means for jobs and AI.
Claude Code auto mode is now default for Pro, Max, Team from Aug 14, 2026 — it caught 89% of dangerous commands vs 13.6% for humans.
