The Ethical Limits of AI: Asimov’s Three Laws vs Anthropic’s Constitution
In brief: Two very different documents claim to govern the conduct of artificial minds. One is Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics — three crisp imperatives written for fiction in 1942. The other is Anthropic’s “constitution,” a real set of written principles used to train the Claude family of models. Reading them side by side …
Read more →Turkey’s New Wealth Amnesty: What Changes with Provisional Article 19
Short answer: The omnibus law dated 4 June adds Provisional Article 19 to Corporate Tax Law No. 5520, introducing a new Turkish wealth amnesty (“Varlık Barışı”). Cash, gold, foreign currency, securities and other capital-market instruments held abroad — or held in Turkey but absent from statutory books — can be declared to banks or intermediary …
Read more →Is SAFE Now Legal in Türkiye? The New Convertible-Debt Carve-Out for Teknogirişim Startups
A new omnibus law (Official Gazette, 4 June 2026) lets Teknogirişim-badge startups run convertible-debt conversions outside the Turkish Commercial Code’s conditional-capital-increase regime. A real step toward making SAFEs work in Türkiye — but not the finish line: the procedure is unwritten and a criminal-law question remains.
Read more →Biometric Attendance Tracking Is Now Unlawful in Türkiye: Inside KVKK Principle Decision 2026/921
Türkiye’s Personal Data Protection Board (Principle Decision 2026/921) has ruled that processing employees’ biometric data for attendance tracking is unlawful — even with explicit consent. Why consent no longer saves it, what the proportionality test means, and the steps employers must take now.
Read more →Why Founders Flip Up: The Anatomy of a Delaware/Cayman Flip
Almost every Turkey-resident startup founder pursuing a US round eventually asks the same question: do we flip up? This piece walks through why founders flip, the six structural pressures, and the eight phases of the flip — plus when NOT to flip.
Read more →VERBIS Registration Deadline Extended to 5 June 2026
VERBIS Registration Deadline Extended to 5 June 2026: What Companies Newly Captured by 2025 Balance-Sheet Thresholds Need to Know In a public announcement, the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) confirmed that the registration and notification deadline for corporate-tax-paying legal entities that fall under the Data Controllers’ Registry (VERBİS) obligation by reason of their 2025 annual …
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