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16/09/2025

🚀 Mistral AI raises USD 2bn in a Series C round led by ASML, valuing 💰 the French 🇫🇷 startup at USD 13.8bn and fueling its expansion in and enterprise-ready .

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French startup Mistral AI raises USD 2bn in a Series C round led by ASML, valuing the company at USD 13.8bn.

16/09/2025

What’s been happening in in the language industry? 🤖 Here’s the latest in AI news, insights, and emerging AI-focused companies. Get up to speed in minutes with Slator’s compact summary 📝 of the month’s news and highlights.

Monthly AI news and data briefing for translation, localization, language AI.

15/09/2025

At Silicon Valley 2025, Smartling, Inc. CEO Bryan Murphy 🗣️ shared a compelling case for propelling, 🚀 not hurting growth, and tapping into a potential 💰 USD 46B global content market.

AI will not kill localization but grow it: Smartling's Bryan Murphy on how AI can tap into a potential USD 46bn market.

15/09/2025

Microsoft unveils 🚀 Live Interpreter API for real-time across 76 languages and 143 locales with automatic language detection 🌏🔍 and voice 🗣️ preservation.

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Microsoft unveils Live Interpreter API for real-time speech translation with automatic language detection and voice preservation.

15/09/2025

*Press Release* Craft's partnership with Bureau Works allows Craft to deliver a superior localization experience for clients worldwide

Craft's partnership with Bureau Works allows craft to deliver a superior localization experience for clients worldwide

15/09/2025

Alibaba Group’s Qwen team unveils a new speech 💬 recognition model covering 11 languages, noise-robust , and even singing 🎶 voice recognition. But with no open weights, adoption could be limited 🚫 for workflows needing local control.

Alibaba unveils a new speech recognition model covering 11 languages, noise-robust transcription, and even singing voice recognition.

15/09/2025

Alibaba Group unveils Marco-Voice, a new text-to-speech system that combines 🗣️ and emotional , 😐😄😠😢😮 delivering more natural and expressive synthetic in Mandarin and English.

Alibaba’s Marco-Voice pairs voice cloning with controllable emotion for more natural and expressive synthetic speech in Mandarin and English.

14/09/2025

*Press Release* CaptionHub's new Timbra suite delivers real-time subtitling and voice localisation with adaptable low latency, seamless broadcast integration and enterprise-grade resilience

CaptionHub's new Timbra suite delivers real-time subtitling and voice localisation with adaptable low latency, seamless broadcast integration and enterprise-grade resilience

12/09/2025

And the Pod 🎙️ is up! SlatorCon Silicon Valley recap, major launches 🚀 by Cohere, Apple, and Google, Middlebury Institute’s 🎓 program cuts, and TransPerfect's acquisition 🤝 of Unbabel.

SlatorCon Silicon Valley recap, AI translation launches by Cohere, Apple, and Google, MIIS program cuts, and TransPerfect’s acquisition of Unbabel.

12/09/2025

Apple announces its live will not be available 👎 to users physically present in the EU 🇪🇺 or holding accounts in the EU, as it continues to fight 👊 massive fines related to increased regulations 🛑 on digital content.

Apple announces restrictions for live AI translation in the EU for users.

12/09/2025

🇬🇧 UK House of Lords call out the “appalling” treatment and “judicial arrogance” towards court as the Ministry of Justice UK ⚖️ defends its stance, and reveals details on trials in courts and prisons 🧑‍⚖️

UK debate on the state of public service court interpreting.

11/09/2025

At the Association of Language Companies Summit in New Orleans, Alex Edwards presents the results of the 2025 ALC Industry Survey, conducted by Slator.

The 160+ page report discusses responses from 114 Language Solutions Integrators ( ) across 20 countries.

Key findings include:

📈 55% of LSIs reported revenue growth
🏥 Healthcare, 🏛️ Government, and 🎓 Education are the top buyer sectors
💰 Translation profit margins are the highest across language services at 38%
📉 26% of LSIs are preparing to sell in the next few years
🤖 77% of LSIs plan to accelerate process automation