Days after the CBI found that an arrested NEET-UG 2026 subject expert had not only helped set the leaked May 3 question paper but had also translated portions of it, the National Testing Agency (NTA) told the Supreme Court that in future, it would use “AI-based tools” for “at least 85% of the translation work in order to minimise human intervention…and lower the probability of any security compromise”. In its affidavit filed before the Supreme Court ahead of Friday’s hearing on pleas seeking the restructuring or replacement of the NTA, the agency outlined a sweeping overhaul of examination security, administration, and technology going forward, even as it defended its handling of the cancelled NEET-UG 2026. The testing agency submitted that it cancelled the exam despite having deployed the most stringent safeguards ever, after receiving “inputs alleging malpractice activity around the examination”.…