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Turkey

Erdogan Raises Stakes With Syria

HURRIYET, MILLIYET, PRESS TURK (Turkey)

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ANKARA - Turkey shows increasing signs that it wants to raise the pressure on the neighboring regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A full week after a Syrian passenger plane was forced to land in Ankara, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to insist publicly that the jet was carrying ammunition, Istanbul daily Hurriyet reported.

“All equipment that can be used in war counts as ammunition. If a missile is ammunition, then the radar and communication devices to direct a missile is ammunition,” Erdogan said in an address Thursday to his provincial Justice and Development Party chairs.

The statement was questioned by opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. “ I wonder what the ammunition includes. Were there bombs, guns or grenades in that plane? He asked in a meeting with his own party.

Damascus has called the move to ground the plane “hostile” and “ reprehensible.”

Meanwhile on Saturday, Turkish daily Milliyet cited military sources in Ankara who put the number of Syrian troops killed by Turkish strikes at 12 since mortars killed civilians in Turkey earlier this month.

But Turkish leaders seem particularly focused on the intercepted airliner. While the Turkish Foreign Ministry made no mention of ammunition when they revealed the results of their investigation into the grounded plane, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Hurriyet that the confiscated material from the Syrian plane were: “materials that can be used for military purposes.”

Erdogan claims the Russian arms exporting agency was sending the confiscated items to the Syrian Defense Ministry. “This Russian arms manufacturer does not produce apples or pears. This institution produces war equipment and ammunition,” Erdogan said, Press Turk reported.

The Syrian foreign ministry has condemned Erdogan for his comments. "The Turkish prime minister continues to lie in order to justify his government's hostile attitude towards Syria," read a statement released on Thursday. “The plane did not carry ammunition or military equipment. Erdogan’s comments lack credibility, and at least he must show the equipment and ammunition to his people”

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Where Altman Meets Macron: The Quest For AI Alignment, Between Private And Public

The inventor of ChatGPT is in Europe to try to force leaders on the Continent to face hard questions about what artificial intelligence is bringing to our world, whether they like it or not.

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Sam Macron or Emmanuel Altman?

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PARIS — Six months ago, Sam Altman’s name was only known to a small circle of technophiles. Earlier this week, when he came to France, he was received by President Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of Economy, and he is back in Paris on Friday to make other connections. On his Twitter account, he described his trip as a "World Tour," like a pop star.

Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the U.S. company that created ChatGPT, the natural language artificial intelligence tool that has literally shaken the world. With 200 million users worldwide in just six months, ChatGPT has broken all sorts of records for the speed of technology adoption.

The world of Tech is prone to trends, and not all of them last. However, to quote Gilles Babinet, co-president of the National Digital Council in France, who has recently published an essay on the history of the internet titled Comment les hippies, Dieu et la science ont inventé Internet ("How the Internet Was Invented by Hippies, God and Science"), we are currently facing an "anthropological break."

In other words, a qualitative leap that will impact all human activities, and even the political organization of our societies — with both positive and negative results.

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