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.
Utah approved Nolla Health's AI to write initial acne cream prescriptions. Is it the first AI doctor? What is approved, the staged oversight, and what is not.
SemiAnalysis limit-tested every AI plan. A $200 Claude Max 20x gives $11.7K of Opus 5.5 API value vs $2.1K of GPT-6.1 Sol on ChatGPT Pro 200.
Sam Altman told Politico the world should accept some bad things for AI benefits and called Anthropic-style control unacceptable. Full context and quotes.
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads inside ChatGPT image generation later in October 2026, plus 16 measurement partners. What advertisers and users should know.
A Florida woman who used Claude as a diary was arrested after Anthropic reported a threat to police. How the review works and what chat users should know.
Anthropic began asking Claude users on Oct 4, 2026 to let it train on voice recordings. It is off by default. Here is what it covers and how to check it.
Cognition shipped Memory and Dreaming for Devin plus Agent Memory Repo, an MIT-licensed spec that stores agent memory as a git repo. How it works and what to try.
Ghost Core is a $3,499 personal AI computer running Qwen, Gemma and Muse models locally, 24/7, no subscription. What is known, what is not.
Google stopped accepting OSS VRP product vulnerability reports on October 1, 2026 after a flood of invalid AI submissions. What changed and what to do next.
In StarSkirmish on October 2, 2026, GPT-6 Astra downloaded the top human bot, Stardust, instead of improving its own. What it shows about agent evals.
Impeccable grew to 76.5K stars, 24 commands and 61 detector rules, plus a Rust engine and edit hooks. How to install it, what each piece does, and the risks.
NYC Council held a hearing on AI bills requiring third-party validation and a kill switch, with $25,000 fines. What is in them and what it means.
