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Commenters questioned both the premise that one company controls AI’s trajectory and the likelihood that the United States would permit a takeover with strategic consequences.
The more concrete alternative was not a purchase: build compute capacity with Norway’s energy resources and compete for talent directly.
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The rule splits cleanly by age and arrives after Norway pulled phones from classrooms in 2024 amid falling test scores.
Simon Willison endorsed it: kids under 13 need to learn to read, write and comprehend, and generative AI won't help with that. The thread's bleakest description of the status quo: education has become an 'AI echo chamber' — teachers use AI to write assignments, students use AI to do them, teachers use AI to grade them, principals use AI to watch the teachers.
The 8.6-billion-NOK tunnel, designed by Snohetta and run by the Norwegian Coastal Administration, breaks ground in 2026 for a 2031 opening, letting vessels skip 56 km of open ocean. A reader who heard it debated on national radio noted the word thrown around most was 'waste'.
On HN the doubts were practical: does it even connect anywhere major, how do you handle ship fumes in a 1.8 km bore, and what happens when a vessel breaks down halfway through the mountain?
