MIT - Weekend Reads

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A new technique has let the company probe deeper than ever into the weird workings of an LLM.

The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The AI era needs ever faster chips. ASML has a monopoly on the expensive contraptions needed to pattern them. Can anyone catch up?

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Here are the advances that we think will drive progress or incite the most change—for better or worse—in the years ahead.

Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Researchers are decoding how signals move between body and brain, with implications for how we understand and treat conditions from obesity to anxiety.

A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Subquadratic has now shared more details about its new model. But some are still skeptical.

AI agents are not your “coworkers”

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Marketing AI agents as digital employees may make human workers worse at spotting errors and more likely to offload accountability.

Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and we’re struggling to keep up.

Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out.

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all.

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up.

Future AI chips could be built on glass

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A specialized glass layer could make tomorrow’s computers faster and more energy efficient.

A new ion-based quantum computer makes error correction simpler

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Quantinuum has unveiled a third-generation quantum computer that could be easier to scale up than rival approaches.

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a leader of THORChain, a blockchain that is not supposed to have any leaders—and is reeling from a series of expensive controversies.

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of the Com, a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.