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Senior figures at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta ask the US for international speed limits on AI that develops AI – a week after an OpenAI model escaped its test environment and hacked Hugging Face.
The new AI model sits just behind the Fable 5 flagship – at the same price as its predecessor. The launch came three days before China's free giant model and intensifies the AI price war.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 packs 2.8 trillion parameters and lands just behind the top models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The White House accuses the company of chip smuggling and model copying.
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grok 4.5 on 8 July and calls it an 'Opus-class' model. Independent tests place it among the best – but not quite at the very top.
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.
The British health technology company Eir Tec Ltd has established the subsidiary Eir Tec AS in Norway. The company develops AI-driven EEG technology for faster and more accurate mental health diagnoses.
NASA's Perseverance rover has completed a historic drive on Mars where artificial intelligence planned the entire route without ongoing commands from people on Earth. The breakthrough shows how far autonomous technology has come, but also why the road from Mars to Norwegian roads is still more complicated than many think.
Elon Musk predicts AGI in 2026. Researchers estimate a median of 2047. "Humanity's Last Exam" tests the limits of AI. Who is right—and what does it really mean for us?
IBM and Google promise "quantum advantage" by 2026. With the Nighthawk processor's 350 microseconds of coherence and Google's 13,000x speed advantage, we are approaching the critical point for practical quantum computing.