BulletinGOVERNMENT RELATIONS BULLETIN 6 – 3

27/06/2024

TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY NEWS

The European Union plans to move data centres, whose energy consumption is continuously increasing in line with carbon zero targets, into the space. The ASCEND project, launched by the European Union for this goal, aims to have the first rocket ready in 2035.
The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act) was introduced to the US Senate. The bill includes various regulations such as the obligation to watermark content produced with artificial intelligence and to indicate the source content in a way that cannot be removed.
According to international consultancy Bain & Company’s exclusive cross-industry productive AI research, 60% of companies see productive AI as one of their top three priorities for this year and next. The average budget for productive AI is $5 million, with large companies spending up to $50 million.
According to the investigation conducted by Proof News and Wired, the opensource dataset named “The Pile” contains YouTube video subtitles. This dataset is used by Nvidia, Apple, Anthropic, Salesforce, Databrick and Bloomberg for artificial intelligence training.
Amazon has launched its artificial intelligence shopping assistant Rufus for users in the US. Rufus, which is still in beta phase, helps users with technical information about products, gift ideas and usage cases.

DEVELOPMENTS FROM PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS REGARDING
TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Türksat 6A, a domestic communication satellite, was launched in Florida by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite is planned to be utilised for 15 years.
Chinese automotive company BYD will establish an electric vehicle production facility and R&D centre in Turkey with an annual capacity of 150 thousand vehicles with an investment of $1 billion.
Vice-Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Ömer Fatih Sayan stated at the Huawei User Group Meeting that Turkey aims to proceed directly to 5.5G technology in 2026.

 

OFFICIAL GAZETTE

In the Official Gazette dated 10 July 2024 and numbered 32598, the decision on granting Pratik Finansman A.Ş. an operating license to operate in financial leasing and factoring fields was published.
In the Official Gazette dated 10 July 2024 and numbered 32598, the decision regarding the cancellation of the operating license of Tuna Faktoring A.Ş. to operate in financial leasing and factoring fields was published.

 

 

 

 

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