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Three AI advancements to look out for in 2025

War, film and work are among the areas that will be characterized by KI in 2025.

Nonsense about weight loss drug

This is the closest we get to a cure for obesity.

Deepseek should be a wake-up call. It's time for Norway to develop its own AI.

Artificial intelligence is too important to be left to oligarchs and party dictatorships.

Aftenposten prevents an enlightened aid debate

Shutting down aid is as knowledgable as shutting down health care.

We are not prepared for the most severe threats

The white paper on total preparedness national security, but we do not know what dangers threaten us or what to do about them.

More knowledge-based aid. What's the next step?

Tighter budgets and new crises make it even more important to have knowledge-based and cost-effective aid. Norway is already doing a lot to make this happen, but we have more to go on. A working group has presented a report with new recommendations.

Improving the efficiency of Norwegian aid through the UN and the World Bank

In 2023, 31.7 billion Norwegian kroner (54% of Norway's aid budget) was allocated through multilateral organizations, with the UN system and the World Bank Group being the two main recipients. This note presents recommendations to the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Norad on how the foreign service can become a more effective and coordinated donor to Norway's largest partners. We focus on the UN system and the World Bank in this first note of the series.

An invisible environmental poison costs millions of lives

Lead in food and paint causes health damage to millions of children every year. Poor countries in particular have a long way to go.

Salmon suffering is Norway's darkest secret

... and the government does nothing. Here are four steps that can help with Norway's biggest animal welfare disaster.

AI must be democratic and cheap

Last week, the leading AI company Open AI announced that the premium version of the best Chat GPT model will go from costing $20 to $200 a month. So you have to spend 25,000 Norwegian kroner a year if you want the latest technology from Silicon Valley.