Reflexive relation

• The leaders of the 31 nations that comprise NATO made their way home on July 12, 2023, after concluding two days of highest-level diplomatic meetings.
• The Conversation asked him for his main takeaways form the leaders’ meeting and what it suggests about the future of NATO.

Ukraine gets some of what it wants

• Ukraine also secured further commitments to nonlethal assistance and training from NATO members.
• Ukraine was embraced by NATO publicly and given clear shows of support and bilateral assistance from key members of the alliance.
• And that shouldn’t be overshadowed by some of the noises of disappointment or talk of Ukraine not showing enough “gratitude” toward NATO members.

Stronger with Sweden after Turkey relents

• Before announcing that Ankara would no longer stand in Sweden’s way, Erdoğan had suggested that his compliance on Sweden might be conditional on the European Union’s looking favorably on Ankara’s own bid to join the economic union.
• Erdoğan’s about-face on Sweden allowed him to look magnanimous on the international stage, but it was likely rooted in domestic politics.
• It was notable that a day after Erdoğan’s announcement, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán signlaled that he too would now greenlight Sweden’s bid.

Back to adversary-based military planning

• The alliance also approved a pivot in how it will conduct defense planning and how it views its strategic goals and objectives.
• For the past 30 years, NATO planning has been geared around general threats rather than targeted at clear adversaries.
• And despite concern over the growing military threat from China, the Asian giant is not identified in the summit communiqué as a primary military threat to NATO nations.
• At the same time, the communiqué made clear that NATO is open to engagement with China.

• Muck Rack , the public relations management platform (PRM) that enables organizations to find the right journalists to pitch, monitor and report on media coverage and prove the value of earned media, announced today it has appointed Lisa Landa as its first ever Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
• As a key member of Muck Rack’s executive leadership team, Landa will oversee the company’s marketing organization, further advancing Muck Rack's unique value proposition in the industry.
• "Lisa has an incredible track record of leading high-performing teams and implementing new and successful marketing programs,” said Gregory Galant, cofounder and CEO of Muck Rack.
• Prior to joining Muck Rack, Landa spent four years building a scale enterprise marketing growth engine at digital quality testing leader Applause.

• They are implemented into chatbots to automate functions such as customer support, marketing and payment processing.
• Additionally, the report forecasts Asia Pacific will account for 85% of global retail spend over chatbots, despite only representing 53% of the global population.
• However, the report predicts that the release of open language models will drive growth outside of Asia Pacific.
• To maximise this growth outside of Asia Pacific, the report urges vendors to target online retailers in these two regions.

• Ludger Schuknecht, Vice President and Corporate Secretary, said, "We welcome this review and will be cooperating fully.
• Transparency is essential to the trust of our 106 Members, our multilateral peers, our development partners, our community of civil society organizations, and the citizens we serve."
• In addition to cooperating with its Canadian counterparts, AIIB will also be conducting its own internal review of the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Bob Pickard and the allegations he has made.
• This management review will be led by the General Counsel, Alberto Ninio.