The Latest Breaking News from Languages

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today.

LLMs are like “a Fulbright scholar who is interested in Asia,” said Microsoft’s Kalika Bali. “It’s an outsider’s gaze into the culture of a country.”

The project will also digitise historic opera sets and millions of artefacts with leading French cultural institutions.

Last fluent speaker of Caddo language, the indigenous language spoken by the Caddo Native American tribe from Oklahoma, has passed.

For nearly two decades, I worked as a therapist in a large psychiatric hospital in Toronto, supporting people living with severe mental health challenges. Many of those I encountered were navigating complex intersections of psychiatric diagnoses, chronic physical illness, poverty, and the breakdown of family and social support. Stories of…

Sophia Kianni and Phoebe Gates met as Stanford roommates who bonded over fashion, climate advocacy, and secondhand shopping. Kianni had already gone viral during the pandemic by founding Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit that translated climate resources into over 100 languages. Gates, daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French…

A £64,700 AI-powered robot girlfriend, the Companion Robot X04-SYNC2, offers coffee service, four languages, and adaptive 'context-aware' chats via ChatGPT.

Some languages have temporary casting, or silence in extreme cases

Today’s AI models struggle to operate in smaller languages like Cantonese and Vietnamese, which are still spoken by tens of millions of people.