The Search Engine War: AI Overviews vs. Traditional Links
Stuart Glover
Photo by Pavel Danilyuk on Pexels Google and Perplexity redefined search in May. Users no longer click links; they receive synthesized answers. This sparked a major debate over “fair use”…
Signal Lost: The April Telecom Security Crisis
Photo by Chris F on Pexels The telecommunications sector took a heavy hit in April. SK Telecom confirmed a breach affecting 23 million users, raising the specter of massive SIM-swapping…
AI Legislation: The EU AI Act Takes Flight
Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels Governance caught up in April. The first major fines under the EU AI Act were issued, targeting companies using “high-risk” AI without transparent bias…
Wearable AI: The Death of the Smartphone Screen?
Photo by Airam Dato-on on Pexels April saw the launch of second-generation AI glasses. No screens—just a voice in your ear that translates languages in real-time and identifies the people…
The Weakest Link: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Explored
Photo by Catherine Sheila on Pexels March reminded us that you are only as secure as your least secure vendor. A massive breach at a defense contractor exposed 4.2TB of…
The Sovereignty of Data: Why Companies are Building Private AI
Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels By late March, enterprises stopped sending data to the public cloud. The trend shifted toward “Local RAG” (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), where AI learns from a…
Video Generation Goes Mainstream: The Sora Effect
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels Hollywood met its match in March. High-fidelity video generation became accessible to the public, allowing users to create 60-second cinematic clips from a single…
Critical Care: The February Ransomware Surge in Healthcare
Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels February saw a focused series of attacks on the healthcare sector. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups like Qilin targeted regional hospital networks, leading to significant…
AI in Biology: The Protein Folding Breakthroughs of 2025
Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels AI isn’t just for writing emails. In late February, DeepMind 3.0 predicted the structures of nearly all known proteins, accelerating drug discovery timelines from…
Reasoning Models: When AI Started to “Think” Before It Spoke
Photo by SHVETS production on Pexels The “Chain of Thought” breakthrough became standard in February. New models now allocate “thinking time” to solve complex math and coding problems, drastically reducing…