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.
Soul.md is the markdown file behind Meta Muse's persona, spotted by Peter Steinberger on Sep 13, 2026. What it is and how it fits CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.
Pieter Levels says a YC batch is only harness or hardware startups. Builders pushed back. What "harness" means, who's right, and what it means for your moat.
Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 Sept 9, 2026 — first US laws licensing AI auditors. What they require, who's covered, vs the vetoed SB 1047.
Chisle pairs a terse Claude Code persona with a tool-output compression hook. What it claims, how it differs from Caveman, and the pushback.
Anthropic's claude plugin eval scores your Claude Code plugin with and without it active, plus cost estimates before a full run. Setup and limits.
Cognition shipped Fusion to Devin CLI Sep 11, 2026 — dual-model harness cuts coding cost ~39%. What fusion means, the real numbers, and the tradeoffs.
25 Fields Medalists signed a declaration accusing AI labs of "severe misalignment" in mathematics. The full text, trigger, and pushback.
Use flybody to study fruit-fly control with explicit task settings and behavioral evaluations, keeping rendering success separate from scientific evidence.
Tibo Sottiaux named 3 bugs behind GPT-6 Astra's quality complaints — legacy skills, a bad context experiment, broken engines — and reset usage.
Joe Benton left Anthropic and Josh Engels left Google DeepMind, both citing AI safety fears, days after Jacob Coxon's viral resignation. Here's what's verified.
Sen. Hawley demanded OpenAI answer 16 questions by Oct. 1 over the July Hugging Face breach, accusing it of withholding details.
A rumor claims 16 Moonshot AI staff were detained over Anthropic's distillation report. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.
