Explore MIT’s 10 breakthrough technologies for 2026
From sodium-ion grids to embryo scoring, MIT Technology Review’s 2026 list—presented at SXSW—maps where tech, energy, and biology are heading.
Artificial Intelligence
The Active Brain: How Google’s “ATLAS” Rewires Itself to Master Infinite Context
In my last article, we explored how DeepSeek’s Engram effectively gave AI a hippocampus—offloading static facts into a massive, efficient lookup table. It was a breakthrough in separating memory from reasoning. But what if the model didn’t just “look up” memories? What if it actually rewired its own brain while it was reading, optimizing its … Read more
The Future of AI Architecture: How DeepSeek’s “Engram” Module Mimics Human Memory to Supercharge LLMs
The race for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has hit a bottleneck: efficiency. Standard Large Language Models (LLMs) are “computationally heavy” because they don’t know how to separate thinking from remembering. A groundbreaking research paper from Peking University and DeepSeek-AI—“Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models” (arXiv:2601.07372)—is changing the … Read more
An easy introduction to LLM agents – structure and components
LLM based autonomous agents can use Generative AI to automate processes without needing human intervention. There is a subtle distinction between autonomous agents and workflows as explained in this anthropic blog. If you know the series of steps needed to automate a process, then you can use a workflow. However, if you need a system … Read more