🖥️🌿 TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
The Associated Press and Google have teamed up to provide real-time data to the Gemini AI model. This agreement aims to increase the accuracy and usefulness of Google’s AI results.
ASELSAN is taking an important step in the field of renewable energy by installing Turkey’s first indigenous MW wind turbines at the Alaçatı Wind Power Plant. These turbines, which have a high localisation rate, are planned to be operational in 2025.
The European Commission has officialised its Code of Conduct on combating illegal online hate speech by integrating it into the scope of the Digital Services Act. The Code, first drafted in 2016, aims to strengthen platforms’ efforts to tackle hate speech and increase user awareness.
National satellite FGN-100-d1 is settled into the orbit. FGN-100-d1, the largest satellite produced by a domestic company in Turkey, will serve in the field of GPS and communication and will be the first satellite of the Positioning Satellite Constellation Project.
OpenAI declares a loss on its 200 $ ChatGPT subscription. CEO Sam Altman posts on social media about the recently launched GPT Pro subscriptions, which include the o1 chatbot model and the Sora video production tool, and notes that subscribers have seen much higher usage than they expected
United States has tightened restrictions on exports of Nvidia’s AI chips. While 18 countries in Tier 1 can import without limit, they must locate most of the chips in their own countries. Countries in Tier 2, including Turkey, were limited to 50,000 units, while exports to Tier 3 were prohibited.
🏛️⚙️🌿 DEVELOPMENTS FROM PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
The Directorate of Communication published the 159th issue of Disinformation Bulletin. Accordingly, the claim that the statements of TURKSTAT and Minister of Social Security Vedat Işıkhan contradict in the November 2024 Unemployment Data does not reflect the truth.
The Ministry of Trade published the Export Action Plan for 2025. In its content; plans for the export of goods, commercial diplomacy, export facilitation activities at customs and the Turkish Commercial Bank were included.
The Cyber Security Draft Law was adopted by the National Defence Commission of the Assembly of Turkey. The bill includes issues such as taking measures against cyber threats, strengthening the cyber security of public institutions and the private sector, and regulating the powers and duties of the Cyber Security Presidency.
The Ministry of Industry and Technology aims to provide 5 billion € financing for decarbonisation investments in the steel, cement, aluminium and fertiliser sectors until 2030 by establishing the Turkish Industrial Decarbonisation Investment Platform.
