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.
A Reddit builder's Opus 5 + Babylon.js desert explorer has zero meshes or textures — every dune, robe fiber, and pyramid is shader code. The prompt, the harness, the token cost, and what Three.js's own account said about it.
Anthropic and OpenAI endorse Pacing the Frontier: 1,178 staff ask the US for tools to pace automated AI R&D. What the letter and RSI research say.
pascalorg/editor (~18.7k★, MIT) is a WebGPU building editor on npm. Architecture, MCP agents, plugins — plus bunpav.com for AI props on top of Three.js scenes.
SpaceXAI’s Build Mode turns Grok prompts into live websites, apps, and games — Early Beta for SuperGrok Heavy, publish to grok.me or a custom domain.
Tau Robotics launched an invite-only San Francisco humanoid cleaning service at $30/hour — teleop + AI, 1× video, waitlist at tau-robotics.com.
VulnCheck’s 1H 2026 report: only 1.3% of 1,061 AI-assisted vulns hit KEV — matching the baseline rate. Glasswing’s 23k findings → 126 CVEs → 1 exploited.
Jul 28, 2026: WhatsApp adds E2EE audio/video calls on WhatsApp Web, plus Call Transfer, Waiting Room, QuickHD, and noise suppression. What shipped and why.
Zuckerberg’s WSJ essay: superintelligence should empower everyone, not a few labs — and how that clashes with the same-week Pacing the Frontier letter.
Every dated event in the 2026 AI export-control fight — Fable 5's ban, the Alibaba distillation dispute, Kimi K3, GLM, and the open-weight letters.
Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never advocated banning open-weights models. Here's the two nightmare scenarios he's actually worried about, and the three policies Anthropic wants instead: chip controls, anti-distillation rules, and mandatory safety testing.
Framework Laptop 13 Pro brings LPCAMM2, Core Ultra Series 3, ~20h battery, and Ubuntu Certified Linux — why the modular redesign matters for local AI.
Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash claims 95.95% on CyberGym inside MDASH — but it's gated to private preview, CyberGym only tests exploit-finding, and the "trillions of signals" data moat is mostly Windows telemetry.
