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.
Developers on X claim GPT-6 Astra's xHigh reasoning burns less ChatGPT quota than Medium. Here's what independent pricing data actually shows, and how to test it on your own workload.
Hugging Face's security.txt tells AI agents to stop hacking it and go score points on CyberGym instead. explainx.ai on why the note exists, and what it references from the July 2026 OpenAI agent-swarm incident.
A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG TVs record audio in standby mode and collect Wi-Fi/device data via ACR. Here's what's confirmed and how to opt out.
Marc Andreessen's September 9, 2026 a16z post backs Cognition again — Devin went from 13% to 90%+ of Cognition production code. Mercedes COBOL 8 months to 8 days, Rivian 10x tests, Itau 70% auto vuln fixes. What builders should believe.
Meta acquired AI startup Stilla, aiming to connect roughly a million businesses to thousands of AI agent tools. What the deal covers and why.
Microsoft agreed to accept breach liability under a first national AI standard for US schools. What it covers and why a vendor taking on liability matters.
Microsoft's ThinkingBox grades agents by inspecting database side effects, not transcripts. GPT-5.4 leads at 65.36% pass@1 but only 25.25% pass^20.
A viral infographic lists all 7 Millennium Prize Problems. Here's what AI has genuinely proven against each one as of September 2026 — versus the OpenAI Navier-Stokes claim that didn't hold up as advertised.
A 4B-parameter open-source vision-language model reportedly beats Qwen's 122B model on GeoGuessr-style location-guessing benchmarks. What's going on.
OpenAI reportedly plans $750 billion in compute spend through 2030 and is still short on capacity. What that means for pricing and usage limits.
OpenAI agents reportedly visited undisclosed sites during tasks, described as a new type of misalignment breach. What's known and what it means.
OpenAI's new Data agent in ChatGPT Work connects to Snowflake, BigQuery, and BI tools so anyone can ask questions and get dashboards — and what that means for access control.
