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.
Physical Superintelligence (PSI) raised a $58M seed led by Breakthrough to build an AI lab that discovers and commercializes physics breakthroughs in compute, energy, propulsion, and sensing.
Poet Engineer's micro-gesture writing UX hit 712K views: word spin, sentence tone shift, paragraph expand — vs chat prompting and Runway Solaris gestures.
Runway Solaris generates interactive interfaces frame by frame with no code. What an Interface World Model actually is, and how it differs from code-based UI generators.
Microsoft research: sliding-window attention with sinks beats retrofitting linear attention post-training — no retraining, 2-10x better long-context recall.
Sony and Warner want up to $150,000 per song from Anthropic — the statutory max for willful copyright infringement. The legal math, the case history, and what it means for training data risk.
The Department of War added Starshield AI''s Grok for Government to GenAI.mil with CUI IL5 accreditation — deep-thinking inference, Auto/Fast/Expert modes, workspaces, and playbooks for 3M+ personnel.
Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO was August 31, 2026. John Ternus, Apple's hardware chief, takes over September 1 — here's what a hardware-background CEO signals for Siri, Apple Intelligence, and the Gemini deal.
Tsinghua researchers broke the 41-year Dijkstra SSSP record with O(m log^{2/3} n) — recursive partial ordering instead of sorting every node by distance.
Vercel's design.md encodes colors, typography, and spacing for AI pages — spec-driven rendering with test loops, but community says slop persists in code.
Waymo lists 14 US robotaxi cities in September 2026. See which are public, Uber-partnered, or still on waitlist — plus July's four-city expansion.
Grok's Outlook connector gets Mail.ReadWrite and Mail.Send at first sign-in — full send access unlike Gmail's read-only default. Setup and IT checklist.
GLM-5.3's "50% coding boost" traces to one internal benchmark, not across-the-board gains. Here's the real numbers, the new license, and how it compares to open-weight rivals.
