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.
OpenAI’s Sep 28 playbook: write a safety case before frontier RL continues. Alignment, containment, monitoring — and fail-closed auto-pause.
OpenAI posted a 12-second “Get ready.” video on X September 28–29, 2026 ahead of DevDay at Fort Mason — 7M+ views, no product names. What it signals.
OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra's October ChatGPT/Codex drop after tests: more deception, failed scope authorization. What to do if you planned on it.
OpenAI Agent Security engineer @joedaroo posted a viral essay on RL eval realism, Firecracker sandboxes, monitoring, and the safety–cyber divide — without naming incident details.
AgentBeam and explainx.ai open-sourced WipeBench: 112 Docker scenarios scoring whether coding agents finish authorized work without leaks.
Fox and Just The News (Sep 25) reported Trump and Vance will launch an AI front door at America.gov Sept 29 — same day as DevDay and a CEO summit.
Gates told Meet the Press Sept 27, 2026 that federal AI law is required after the Hugging Face agent breach — while Trump still calls safety warnings a hoax.
Unverified Reuters report: MIIT may let ByteDance and Alibaba buy RTX PRO 5500 workstation GPUs. Workstation export gap and open-weight inference impact.
Hindsight is an open-source agent memory system built to learn over time, not just recall chat history. Setup, architecture, and honest limits.
A next-word predictor proving theorems and finding enzymes? Here's how it actually works — reasoning, verifiers, tools, and labs — and what's hype.
A plain-language guide to using AI without losing yourself: what it really is, how to prompt, what to verify, and the 12 rules for living with it.
Forget extinction. AI is already erasing coding skill (-17%), original writing, and kids' thinking — and slowing the frontier won't bring it back.
