India, Dec. 10 -- Cline AI head Nik Pash says he won't apologise for his "imagine the smell" remark on a picture of the xAI Hackathon, which has prompted a massive backlash on social media. Earlier, the techie shared that his comment was taken out of context, and now he called it a "harmless joke".

"It has been an intense 48 hours for me and my team. To be clear, I'm not going to apologize for making a harmless joke about hackathons smelling bad. I've been to 4 this year, they all smelled bad," Pash wrote.

He mentioned that he has received criticism from many, including Deedy Das, an ex-Google and Facebook techie who became a partner at Menlo Ventures. Pash posted, "I do expect an apology from people like Deedy Das, who I've had numerou...