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.
Meta and OpenAI both sell their AI agents as the private option. The Verge checks the record: VM isolation, data training defaults, and what is unproven.
Hundreds of AI-assisted browser ports of Halo, GTA Vice City and Black Ops appeared in weeks. What Kotaku reported, what is unverified, and the legal risk.
WSJ sources say Dario Amodei asked Meta's Alexandr Wang for compute and Meta declined. What is reported, what CNBC says, and why it matters for Claude users.
Aurelio is an MIT-licensed personal finance app with an AI advisor that runs on your own machine. Setup, per-question costs, privacy and limits explained.
Wired reports HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette staff use Claude and ChatGPT for back-cover copy and cover art, with no author consent.
SemiAnalysis census of 857 Chinese AI releases: 3.6% have a safety result, 1.1% at launch. Method, labs, limits, and what it means for the pacing debate.
Epoch AI tested GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on rediscovering SDPO. Best result: about 35% of its gains. What InnovationEval shows about AI R&D.
The FBI arrested Cypfer co-founder Edward Dubrovsky in Pennsylvania on October 8 in the ShinyHunters case. What is confirmed, what is not, and what to do.
Does Google AI Pro include Colab A100 and H100 GPUs? Google confirms priority access, and Premium GPUs only for Ultra. The 200 units claim is unverified.
llama.cpp b11404 adds Metal few-row matmul kernels that speed up speculative decoding on Apple Silicon. Real PR numbers, what they mean, how to test.
GenIA (Meta, Tuebingen): test-time input alignment for SAM 3D Objects from images, multi-view or video. Setup, runtime numbers, CC BY-NC license, limits.
Satya Nadella says contain every AI model from the start, log actions as tamper-proof evidence, and keep a pause switch. What he said and what it means.
