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Meta's new "Facebook Verified" gives you a free badge in exchange for a video selfie and facial recognition. Critics point to the irony – and in Europe, face data faces strict GDPR rules.
The silicon-carbon battery went mainstream in 2026: 30–50% more power in the same space, up to 10,000 mAh in slim phones. China leads, the West lags – and the gain reaches further than longer battery life.
Around 594 bitcoin were siphoned from 500 wallets in minutes. The trail points to a random number generator failure in the Coldcard hardware wallet – whose maker now urges users to move funds immediately. Coinkite confirms the newer models may also be affected.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos found a hidden weakness in the HAWK scheme – a US federal standards candidate – and invented an entirely new attack technique against weakened AES. Experts reassure: no real-world data is at risk.
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.