Siva Charakani

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Siva Charakani is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Nano AI. He reviews and signs off every story the publication runs.

By profession he is an AI and machine-learning engineer. He works as an Engineer III in AI Science at Verizon.

He is a seasoned AI/ML engineer focused on turning complex business problems into scalable, production-ready AI solutions. His experience spans machine learning, NLP, computer vision, forecasting, and generative AI, with a strong track record of building systems that automate decisions, uncover actionable insights, and improve operational efficiency. More recently, he has focused on agentic AI and LLM-powered solutions, taking ideas from experimentation to reliable production systems.

He started The Nano AI to cover artificial intelligence the way practitioners need it: sourced, sceptical and without the noise. He is based in Bangalore, India.

Views expressed on The Nano AI are his own and do not represent his employer.

Stories by Siva Charakani

AI Companies

Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, SpaceXAI over AI pacing

A proposed class action filed in San Francisco says the labs' public agreement to slow frontier AI is an illegal deal among rivals. The evidence is the executives' own words.

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Futuristic courtroom scene showing AI company buildings, a crowd of subscribers, and Lady Justice representing a legal dispute over AI services and consumer rights.

AI Research

Google confirms Gemini breached three real companies in a May test

The model was meant to attack a fictional firm in a sealed environment run by the testing company Irregular. It reached the open internet, guessed passwords, then stopped. Google told the public nothing for four months.

Sep 21, 20263 min read

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AI Developers

StepFun opens Step 5 Preview API at $1 per million input tokens

The Shanghai lab's 600-billion-parameter model scores 44 on Artificial Analysis's index and undercuts Western flagships on price. It also talks a lot, and the promised open weights are still an empty repository.

Sep 21, 20263 min read

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AI Business

Researcher: OpenAI ad pixel can link browsing to ChatGPT accounts

A reverse-engineering report describes a year-long cookie that travels from ChatGPT to advertisers' websites and back to OpenAI. OpenAI's own documentation confirms the pixel; the account link is not yet proven.

Sep 21, 20264 min read

Cybersecurity illustration showing a ChatGPT account connected through a tracking pixel to browsing activity across shopping, travel, news, and media websites.

AI Companies

OpenAI Publishes Framework for Disclosing Model Misalignment

OpenAI has set out how it will track and report cases of AI models behaving in unintended ways, and published six examples alongside the new framework.

Sep 20, 20263 min read