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.
Nvidia and six asset managers plan $500B in AI infrastructure financing backed by compute as collateral — while Nvidia's credit default swaps hit record highs on circular-financing fears.
ChatGPT desktop for Linux is in preview with .deb and .rpm builds for Ubuntu, Debian 13, and Fedora. Supported distros, Codex access, and the agent importer explained.
Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years, joining a wave of exits that has emptied the safety and ethics leadership bench ahead of a possible record IPO.
Grok Bot early beta gives SuperGrok Heavy and Cursor Ultra users persistent AI agents with their own virtual machines. Access tiers, real workflows, and the credential risk.
Spotify is labeling AI-generated artist profiles and pulling them from default recommendations. Why the demotion matters far more than the badge, and what gets labeled next.
Ranked Android apps that teach AI and machine learning through bite-sized, gamified lessons — Sololearn AI, Brilliant, Enki, Codecademy Go, and Mimo — with streaks, quizzes, and honest fit.
Ranked iOS apps that teach AI and machine learning through bite-sized gamified lessons — Synapse, Sololearn's Learn AI, Enki, Mimo, and Brilliant — with pricing, streak mechanics, and honest fit.
Ranked loop engineering courses for 2026: explainx.ai's Udemy course and live workshop lead, then DeepLearning.AI, Anthropic Academy, and LangChain Academy — with curricula, pricing, and who each is for.
Ranked Claude live workshops for 2026: explainx.ai Claude for Work leads, then Anthropic Coworkshop, Claude Code Workshop, MCP Bootcamp, and Academy.
Unsloth Desktop is a free open-source app for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs and fine-tunes LLMs, diffusion and audio models locally — with no telemetry and offline operation.
webAI's TwIL-LM3 is a 3B formal-logic model reported as beating a 120B model with 40x fewer parameters. The benchmarks are real — but it is not open source, and it loses on held-out tasks.
The EU AI Act is now enforceable. What changed on August 2, 2026, which Article 50 duties fall on deployers rather than providers, and the penalties behind them.
