Author: Shrijit Roy

A consumer EEG headband tracking your focus during a work sprint. A brain-computer interface restoring speech to an ALS patient. An AI-powered neurofeedback system learning the rhythm of your attention. These are commercially available or in active clinical use in 2026. Wearable neurotechnology has moved from research labs to retail shelves faster than most industries anticipated. The global brain-computer interface (BCI) market is valued at approximately $3.75 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach around $15 billion by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 16.7%. That growth is being driven by three converging forces: a clinical need to treat…

Nobody called it a retreat. Nobody used that word. But at roughly 3 AM in Brussels on May 7, 2026, after overnight trilogue negotiations, EU legislators quietly agreed to delay the EU AI Act. They agreed to simplify and, in some areas, significantly reduce the obligations of the law that was supposed to define how the world regulates artificial intelligence. The official framing is simplification. Brussels prefers that word. But it’s the first major rollback of the EU legislation since the AI Act was adopted in 2024. And understanding why it happened tells you more about the real state of…

Most AI headlines this year have been about what models can say. This one is about what a model did to itself. In May 2025, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve. A Gemini-powered coding agent that autonomously discovers, tests, and improves algorithms across mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Yes, it did crack a 55-year-old unsolved matrix multiplication problem. But AlphaEvolve also sped up Gemini’s own training process by 1%. The system that optimizes algorithms is already optimizing the system it runs on. AlphaEvolve is already deployed across Google’s actual infrastructure, touching data centers, chip design, and AI training pipelines. And as of…

The exploit came before the advisory. That’s the part most people skip over. Palo Alto Firewall Networks confirmed that attackers were probing CVE-2026-0300, nearly a month before the public disclosure on May 7. For anyone running an unpatched Palo Alto firewall, the window between attackers and defenders was already open and active before most security teams were even reading about it. The combination of factors here, a 9.3 CVSS score, confirmed in-the-wild exploitation, authentication portal exposure, and a device sitting at the network perimeter. These factors set this vulnerability apart from most CVEs that receive brief attention on Patch Tuesday…

The thing nobody talks about is that most AI security conversations still treat AI like a chatbot. You ask it something. It answers. The end. That model is already obsolete. And on May 1, 2026, the Five Eyes Alliance made that officially clear. Six of the world’s most powerful national cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory called Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services. It wasn’t a vague warning about future risks. It was a coordinated, multigovernment document targeting a specific category of AI systems. The ones that act autonomously, chain tools together, access sensitive data, and complete multi-step objectives without…

We’ve been seeing the AI chip space for quite some time, but I’ll tell you what we don’t usually see. An IPO that breezes past its own price range, opens 89% above that new range, and still closes at a 68% premium on its first day. That’s something closer to a controlled panic to get in. The Cerebras IPO was, objectively, the biggest AI story Wall Street has had in months. Not because the company is perfect, but because it answered a lot of questions the market had. Key Takeaways What Are Cerebras Systems? Cerebras Systems is an AI chip…

Most people assume deepfake abuse is a Taylor Swift problem. It’s not. A 2023 analysis of 4,678 deepfake videos found that 96% of them involved nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). The images weren’t celebrity parodies, not political satire, but targeted exploitation of real people who had no platform or senator to call for help. That gap between the scale of the harm and the absence of any federal response is what Congress finally tried to fix. On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law. It’s the first piece of federal deepfake legislation that puts hard…

The first AI-generated zero-day exploit wasn’t found on some dark websites. In fact, Google found it in the middle of operations, aimed at a mass attack campaign. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) didn’t stumble on some researcher’s proof-of-concept. They found a working AI-built zero-day exploit, which was planned to be used at scale against real systems. The patch came before the mass exploitation was launched. The first confirmed AI-assisted exploit development in the wild is a line drawn in the timeline. Before this, AI hacking was a thought experiment. After this, it’s an operational reality. Here’s what actually happened, what…

Two years ago, the most embarrassing position in tech was being with Intel. The company was losing customers, bleeding engineers, and burning cash on a manufacturing strategy that wasn’t working. Today, Intel is up over 240% year-to-date, lapping NVIDIA on a stock chart. The move is part of a broader shift unfolding across the AI chips industry. That is the setup for the strangest trade in AI chips and semiconductor stocks right now. NVIDIA still controls over 80% of the global AI accelerator market. Its revenues are still record-breaking. But AMD is up 112% YTD, Intel is up 240%, Micron…

Paid software is not always better. Free software is not always enough. The decision sits somewhere in the middle, and most people approach the free vs paid software choice by acting on instinct rather than evidence. A 2026 Self Financial survey found that 59.9% of respondents were paying for at least one subscription they never actively used. That is not a pricing issue. That is a pattern of paying before the free version was ever really tested. The free vs paid software question has a clear answer once you know the right criteria. This guide gives you the full framework:…

In 2022, a single offside call took over six minutes to resolve. In 2026, the same decision could be taken in just a few seconds. All by using a 3D digital clone of the player’s body built from laser scans. That’s sports on the next level. I’ve been watching this blend of tech and major sporting events, but the 2026 FIFA World Cup is totally different from what I’ve seen before. It’s not because of AI being bolted in broadcasting, but because it’ll revolutionize sports broadcasting. The numbers make the scale obvious. 48 teams. 104 matches. 16 stadiums across the…

Most Android announcements eventually boil down to Gemini can do more stuff now. But the Android Show on May 12, 2026, was different. Google didn’t announce a Gemini feature; it announced a whole revamp. The Gemini Intelligence platform wraps around the entire OS. Gemini Intelligence is Google’s cross-device agentic AI platform for Android. It’s the answer to a question nobody knew how to ask, yet what does Android look like when it starts completing tasks for you? I’ve been going through everything Google published, every security blog post, and the picture is genuinely interesting, though not without real problems. Here’s…