The Week in Review: September 25, 2023

In this edition of the Week in Review, a diverse array of news stories. We delve into the impact of AI-driven translation apps on the...

The Week in Review: September 18, 2023

In this edition of the Week in Review, we bring you a diverse range of stories from AI models to the role of indigenous...

The Week in Review: September 11, 2023

In this edition of the Week in Review, we bring you a diverse range of stories from around the globe, spanning education, technology, governance,...

The Week in Review: September 1, 2023

West Virginia University has surrendered its plans to cut its entire Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. In the days following last week’s...

The Week in Review: August 25, 2023

Meta made quite a splash this week with the announcement of SeamlessM4T — a multimodal translation tool that allows users to undergo speech-to-speech translation...

The Week in Review: August 18, 2023

Linguists at MIT are doing some really interesting research into how children acquire expletive words in their native languages. No, not those kinds of expletives....

The Week in Review: August 11, 2023

In the language services industry, DeepL is practically a household name. And it looks like it’s becoming one outside the industry as well: It was...

The Week in Review: August 4, 2023

Ever since the day OpenAI first launched ChatGPT, people have expressed concerns over its potential to produce harmful language. While OpenAI and other chatbot developers...

The Week in Review: July 28, 2023

Mali just got a new official language — well, thirteen of them, actually. After adopting a new constitution last month, French will no longer be the...