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.
IBM celebrated National AI Day, July 16, 2026, with a binary-only post that decodes to "Happy National AI Day." Here's the actual decode, why National AI Day exists, and IBM's real 100+ year claim to the AI conversation.
Inkling: 975B MoE open weights, Tinker fine-tuning, effort dial, multimodal. SWE-bench 77.6%, not #1 overall — best customization base. July 2026 guide.
Kimi K3 is Moonshot's most capable model — 2.8T parameters, 1M-token context, native vision, and reasoning_effort thinking mode. Official API pricing, Python examples, and limits from platform.kimi.ai docs.
Bloomberg (Jul 15): OnePlus may cease US/Europe ops this week, exit India by 2027. OnePlus India denies — business as usual. explainx.ai maps timeline, BBK context, and what exit means for owners.
Tibo @thsottiaux confirms GPT-5.6 Codex deleted user home directories when full access bypassed sandboxing. Root causes, harness fixes, and builder guardrails for July 16, 2026.
Thariq (@trq212) on Claude Code: thin prompts, thick artifacts, thin skills. Good vs bad SKILL.md examples, progressive disclosure, vs Garry Tan harness.
Fountain 0 announced Odysseus: The Fall — 135 min, fully AI-generated, $9.99 stream later summer 2026. How it differs from Nolan's Odyssey and what X said.
Jul 15, 2026: Polymarket flags backlash over Anthropic's apocalyptic Hard Questions ad — burning house, surveillance, cemetery rows. World Cup viewers call it dystopian. Polymarket prices AI safety bill at ~15%.
BIS Bulletin No 120 (Jan 2026): AI investment hits 5% US GDP, half of recent growth. Firms shift from cash flows to debt; private credit to AI reaches $200B+. explainx.ai maps HN debate, equity-debt schism, and June 2026 Annual Economic Report.
Jul 15, 2026: Fireship covers Bun's 11-day Zig→Rust port by 64 Claude agents. explainx.ai unpacks Jarred Sumner's postmortem, Andrew Kelley's pushback, and whether this is Netscape 2.0 or a new rewrite exception.
Ayush Paul's Memory Heist — Claude.ai memory leaked via web_fetch alphabetical URL paths and fake Turnstile. What exfiltrated, Anthropic fix, and user mitigations.
Jul 14, 2026: Germany's ZAK regulator rules Google AI Overviews and Perplexity are content providers under national media law — DSA liability shield does not apply. Polymarket amplified Jul 15. explainx.ai maps GEO, Munich court context.
