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On 17 June the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors for the second time this year. When the work was done, the Arctic vault had passed 1.4 million seed samples – and for the first time, Burkina Faso and Niger sent seeds to the mountain.
In 2026 humanoid robots left the demo videos behind and started working for money — on factory floors, in warehouses and, for the first time, in ordinary homes. The Norwegian robot NEO is furthest along toward the living room, but behind its friendly facade sit humans who can look straight into your home.
The world's largest camera has begun filming the entire sky, four humans flew around the Moon for the first time since 1972, and fresh data are making dark energy wobble. These are the big discoveries and missions of the 2026 space year.
Artificial intelligence has become so power-hungry that megawatts, not microchips, now set the ceiling on how fast the technology can grow. The world has discovered northern Norway's cheap hydropower — and the fight over who gets to use it has begun.
In June 2026, both OpenAI and Anthropic released their most powerful AI models behind government-approved access gates. The frontier is now split in two — and for Norwegian users, the top tier could in principle be shut off by a decision in Washington.
Microsoft has launched VibeVoice, a "frontier-level" open-source project for speech synthesis and speech recognition. By making the technology freely available via GitHub, Mi...
Sony AI has announced Project Ace – the first known autonomous system that is competitive with elite performers at complex tasks.
A new open source tool makes it possible to swap faces in real time using just a single image. The technology is impressive, but security experts are sounding the alarm.
Neuromorphic computers modelled on the human brain can now solve complex physics simulations that previously required energy-hungry supercomputers.
A man who lost the ability to speak due to ALS can now communicate again thanks to a Neuralink implant in his brain. Kenneth Shock is the first patient to have his...
NVIDIA has just released an AI model that makes the impossible possible: Olympiad-level reasoning with only 3 billion active parameters. Nemotron-Cascade 2, launched on 19 March 2026,...
Meta AI has just released F2LLM-v2, a family of multilingual AI models that for the first time gives the Norwegian and Sami languages world-class treatment. For years, Norwegian AI developers...