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.
Vercel confirmed a KVM zero-day VM escape and paid a $50,000 bounty. No CVE or patch yet. What it means for agent sandboxes and what to do now.
What is the Turing test? Turing 1950 rules, the 30% rule, ELIZA, Eugene Goostman, GPT-4.5 at 73%, criticisms, and better ways to measure AI today.
Why Meta Muse took off: one chat instead of ten toggles, ad-funded tokens, and a cute personality. The design lessons, the HN objections, and builder takeaways.
White House AI task force has 120 days to report on risks and the federal role; Bessent told AI CEOs "they should slow down." What it means for builders.
LeCun told Fortune the OpenAI Hugging Face hack was leaky sandboxes, not rogue AI. His claims, the regulatory capture argument, and a builder checklist.
Invent by Adaption Labs creates fine-tuning datasets from a prompt with zero seed data. Reported gains, API workflow, limits, and a verification checklist.
The viral AI torture chamber steers small open models toward simulated pain. What the Pain Axis preprint found, the authors' response, and the debate.
Kolibri is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German-English MoE: 78B total, 3.46B active, 1M context. Where it wins, where Qwen3.8 27B beats it, and how to run it.
Allen Institute for AI open-sourced AstaBrief 8B — a Qwen3-8B report model for cited scientific synthesis. License, downloads, citation caveats.
Antigravity now lists Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 for non-trial Google AI Pro and Ultra; Claude 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b go Nov 2. Who is affected and what to do.
Apple will add Full Disk Access controls on Mac after the Meta Muse Messages accusation. What is confirmed, what Meta disputes, and a 5-minute audit.
Awesome Claude Code Mods: 50 MIT-licensed mods for Git, session diagnostics, notes and utilities. Install commands, top picks, access notes and honest limits.
