"Når selv Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet (NSM) er bekymret for at en avhengighet av én eller få utenlandske tek-selskaper kan få store konsekvenser, er det på tide for universitetet å våkne opp."
https://www.universitas.no/leder-maja-van-der-velden-microsoft/naivt-a-stole-pa-bill-gates/399944
Almost might want to skip over to Oslo for the #CS3 conference in two weeks: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1560960/program
Keynotes:
Digital Sovereignty or Digital Dependency: Europe’s Tech Moment of Truth (F. Karlitschek, Nextcloud)
The HPC-Cloud Pipeline: Data Provisioning for Destination Earth and the AI Revolution in Weather Forecasting (T. Quintino, ECMWF)
Clinical research and data in the AI era: Lessons and future directions from the AI-Mind project (Dr. Hatlestad-Hall, Oslo U. Hospital)

The CS3 2026 event is part of the CS3 conference series. CS3 2026 will take place on 17-19 March (Tuesday-Thursday) at the University of Oslo. On Monday 16 March afternoon we will host a co-located SIG-CISS session of the GEANT Association. We look forward to meeting old and new colleagues within the CS3 community. Reconnect, inspire and get inspired, learn from each other and have some fun together, too! This is an in-person event jointly organized by: CERN ETH Zurich PCSS SUNET University...
Mariscal Sucre International Airport - Quito, Ecuador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariscal_Sucre_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/-0.125399/-78.354306
Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo has two papers accepted at #ICLR2026!
- Dual Language Models: Balancing Training Efficiency and Overfitting Resilience by David Samuel and Lucas Charpentier
- Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for Lower-resource Languages by David Samuel, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal and Andrey Kutuzov
Details and links in the thread: