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Brussels considers simplifying the EU AI Act after pressure from tech giants — but critics warn that big capital is winning, while Norwegian startups are still left with uncertainty and compliance costs.

The European Commission has published a draft guidance document of over 130 pages to help companies determine if their AI systems fall under the high-risk category in the AI Act — but criticism from the industry is harsh.

OpenAI's reasoning model has disproven a geometry conjecture from 1946 — and this time, prominent mathematicians stand behind the result.

The hacker group TeamPCP has compromised thousands of open-source projects – including GitHub itself – in what is described as one of the most extensive software supply chain attacks in history.

The EU has revised the AI Regulation, giving companies using high-risk AI significantly more time to comply with the regulations. For Norwegian businesses operating in the EU market, this means a new deadline in December 2027.

Following a plane crash in Kentucky, people used AI tools to reconstruct the last words of deceased pilots from audio images in a public document — forcing the US National Transportation Safety Board to shut down its entire public archive.

While the US negotiates access to the most powerful AI systems for critical infrastructure protection, Europe is largely shut out — with only 5 percent of the world's AI computing power and rules that won't take effect until 2027.

Google's new AI search gives users answers without clicking through – and the consequences for content providers could be dramatic. Store Norske Leksikon already lost 25 percent of its traffic overnight.

Google is rebuilding its search engine from the ground up with AI-powered answers and autonomous agents — and it could cost online publishers up to two billion dollars in lost advertising revenue.

Google has launched Gemini Omni Flash – a multimodal AI model that generates and edits video from text, images, and audio through natural conversation. According to Google DeepMind, this is a step towards AGI.

The EU has extended the deadline for the strictest requirements of the AI Act by over a year. Norwegian companies and researchers developing high-risk AI will have more time – but warnings about loopholes are pouring in.

Former Nav director Hans Christian Holte has been appointed head of KI Norge — the state's new initiative to make Norway a leading AI nation.

Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, has testified under oath that Sam Altman gave her false information about the security protocols for a new AI model. The testimony emerged during the ongoing Musk v. Altman lawsuit.

In May 2026, Norway officially joined Pax Silica – a US-led coalition aimed at reducing Western dependence on Chinese supply chains for artificial intelligence and semiconductors.

OpenAI has made GPT-5.5 Instant the standard for all ChatGPT users. The model promises drastically fewer errors and more personalized responses – but competitor Google is not without its advantages.

Norway is joining the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, which aims to secure access to critical raw materials and semiconductors for artificial intelligence development. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries confirms its participation.

The US is strengthening its military AI initiative with new classified agreements with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia – but Anthropic is banned after a bitter dispute over security limits.

A Bergen-based company announces downsizing, pointing to artificial intelligence as the driving force behind the cuts. The trend is global but is now hitting locally in Bergen.

In an ongoing lawsuit, Elon Musk claims that OpenAI's co-founders deliberately misled him about the company's future – and that he himself was naive enough to believe them.

Negotiations on exemptions in the EU AI Regulation have become deadlocked, increasing uncertainty for Norwegian and European AI companies preparing for costly compliance.

NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni – a compact, open multimodal AI model with a one-million-token context window that outperforms rivals from Qwen and OpenAI in inference speed.

David Silver, known from DeepMind and AlphaGo, has raised $1.1 billion for his new company Ineffable Intelligence — which focuses on AI that learns independently without human training data.

Phoenix Ikner asked ChatGPT several questions before shooting multiple people at a Florida university. OpenAI is now under investigation – and the case has a direct Norwegian connection.

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5 and is working towards a unified desktop 'super app.' The company is now competing against Anthropic and Google for the enterprise market – with Norwegian developers in the crosshairs.

New AI models make phishing attacks dramatically faster and more accurate. A security expert describes the scale attackers now operate at as the single greatest threat.

Google has committed to investing up to $40 billion in AI company Anthropic – the largest single commitment in the company's history. The investment combines cash and access to massive computing capacity.

Google Cloud and NVIDIA presented new infrastructure at Google Cloud Next, promising to cut the costs of running AI models by up to ten times. This could be a turning point for Norwegian businesses with significant AI ambitions.

Senator Elizabeth Warren draws sharp parallels between today's AI industry and the 2008 financial crisis – warning that massive debt and speculation could have catastrophic consequences.

Anthropic's secret AI model, Claude Mythos Preview – which the company itself deems too dangerous to be released – has become accessible to a group of unauthorized users via an external contractor.

OpenAI launches Codex Labs and partners with Accenture, PwC, Infosys, and other consulting giants to roll out its AI coding tool at scale for enterprise clients.

Amazon is investing an additional $5 billion in AI company Anthropic, which in return commits to spending $100 billion on Amazon's cloud infrastructure, AWS.

Microsoft is set to equip a data center in Narvik with 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin accelerators, making Norway one of Europe's most significant hubs for AI infrastructure.

Nscale expands its collaboration with Microsoft in Narvik with the purchase of 30,000 Nvidia Rubin graphics processors. The total investment is estimated at around 13 billion Norwegian kroner.

OpenAI has significantly upgraded its AI agent Codex, which can now independently operate all apps on your computer. Experts warn of serious security and privacy risks.

An American jury will soon decide whether OpenAI has broken its fundamental promise to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of all humanity — and the case could change the future of the entire AI industry.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4-Cyber and distributes $10 million in API access to leading security firms. Norwegian entities should note this opportunity.

The EU's AI Act sparks fears that European startups are losing the battle for capital and talent to the US and other markets with more lenient regulation. New figures show that one in six AI startups are considering leaving the EU.

A new analysis reveals that nearly 90 schools and over 600 students globally have been affected by AI-generated fake nude images. Experts call it a societal crisis demanding immediate action.

A 20-year-old has been charged with throwing an incendiary device at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The attack is the latest in a growing wave of violence and civil unrest directed at the AI industry.

The two AI giants are on a collision course in the state of Illinois, where a controversial legislative package could exempt AI companies from liability in cases of hundreds of deaths and billions in losses.