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.
Anthropic built Scion to replace git as merges passed 30,000 a day: 200x smaller infrastructure, 100x faster checkouts. What it is and what to learn.
Apple unveiled HomeView ($299, Nov 13), a $299 Apple TV 4K and a $149 HomePod mini 2 built around Siri AI. The EU gets none of it yet.
Apple ML Research: mixing a high-resource language beats hyperparameter tuning for low-resource pre-training, worth 2-13x unique data on downstream tasks.
AWS AgentCore payments and Anchor Browser let agents pay x402 sites under per-session budgets, with wallet keys kept out of the agent runtime.
Baroness Campbell addressed the House of Lords in an AI-recreated voice built with ElevenLabs. How the clone was made, who approved it, and what it means.
Bill Gates told CNN bad actors with the latest models and no safeguards will bring "negative surprises" in cyber within a year. The quote, data and fixes.
A developer tested seven models for in-browser RAG: nothing under 350 MB beat 3 of 30 faithful answers; Gemma 4 E2B hit 28, Haiku 5.5 hit 27.
Character.AI filed Chapter 11 in Delaware. Disney is the $20M stalking horse bidder. What happens to the app, your chats and the teen lawsuits.
A Norwegian startup says Microsoft and Anthropic each sent it to the other over a $17,600 Claude bill. Who bills whom on Azure Foundry, and what to check first.
Coinbase says a Qwen3.5-9B post-trained for under $100 beat Opus 4.5 on fraud detection and newer frontier models regressed. Method, numbers, caveats.
Meta is bringing Your Algorithm to Facebook feed and Reels, with LLMs reading plain-language requests. What it does, how it differs on Instagram, limits.
Fish Audio Drama 3 is out as open weights: a 35B-A3B text-to-speech model with word-level editing, director revisions and SGLang-Omni serving. What to know.
