Google Flips Stance on Automatic AI Translations, Requires Content Creators to Opt Out

"There is a reason that “Google Translate” has become shorthand, outside the language industry, for translation technology: Its relatively early appearance online, coupled with Google’s ubiquity, has made it an identifiable standard.
Now, Google has integrated its automated, AI-powered translation into its search engine and results pages — potentially to the detriment of content creators.
SEO specialist website Ahrefs published, in early June 2025, an article on the potential fallout from Google’s efforts to automatically translate English-language webpages into other languages following Google’s March 2025 Core.

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AI Live Translation Stars as Key Feature at Apple 2025 Developers Conference

"The 2025 installment of Apple’s annual World Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicked off online with announcements of AI live translation capabilities seemingly everywhere in the company’s platforms and products.
The event showcased features platform by platform, citing Apple Intelligence as the central engine for translation and other new or enhanced device functions. Setting the stage for a host of live translation mini demos, Apple Intelligence’s 17 supported languages were mentioned not five minutes into the broadcast opening.

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What Are Language Solutions Integrators and Language Technology Platforms?

"Florian and Esther welcome Slator’s Anna Wyndham and Alex Edwards to SlatorPod to explain the rationale behind the new industry framework introduced in the Slator 2025 Language Industry Market Report.
Drawing from the flagship report and echoing the buzz of SlatorCon London, the team explains why the traditional labels, Language Service Providers (LSPs) and Translation Management Systems (TMSs), no longer capture the scope and complexity of the evolving market. Instead, Slator has introduced two new terms: Language Solutions Integrators (LSIs) and Language Technology Platforms (LTPs).
SlatorPod breaks down new industry terms, Language Solutions Integrators (LSIs) and Language Technology Platforms (LTPs), reflecting the AI-driven evolution of language services."

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Grammarly Raises a Billion in Financing Tied to Revenue Growth

"Known as much for its flagship write-assist offering as for ubiquitous advertising, the Grammarly Editor platform raised USD 1bn from General Catalyst‘s Customer Value Fund. The funds will operate like a loan or credit line with capped returns tied to revenue, rather than an equity stake.
The financing, announced on X on May 29, 2025, by the company’s current CEO, Shishir Mehrotra, is structured in a way that allows General Catalyst to increase their investment in Grammarly without diluting ownership by issuing new shares to other investors — according to Reuters.

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EU Postpones Spain Language Decision Again

"Almost two years after the first formal petition, Spain once again pushed for its three co-official languages, Catalan, Basque, and Galician, to be added as official languages within the European Union (EU). On May 27, 2025, the EU postponed any decision on the matter for a second time.
The first time the proposal was rejected was in September 2023, a little over a month after the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, requested for the Council of the European Union to include the languages.
At the time, Spain presided over the EU government, which communicated that it had discussed the matter but needed more information, and deferred making a decision on whether to bring it to a vote.

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HeyGen CTO Rong Yan on AI Video Generation and the Language Challenge

"Rong Yan, CTO of HeyGen, joins SlatorPod to recount the company’s transformation from a Metaverse-focused startup to leading the emerging field of AI video generation.
Rong recounts HeyGen’s beginnings and the pivot to its current avatar model, which saw ARR go from zero to USD 1m within six months.
Rong attributes HeyGen’s success to its emphasis on three key elements: quality, consistency, and controllability. The company’s newest model, Avatar IV, enables full-body video generation with natural gestures, synchronized audio, and emotion to speech.

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CEO of AI Dubber Papercup Says Much of the Team is Moving to Scale AI

"AI dubbing company Papercup co-founder and CEO, Jesse Shemen, announced via a post on LinkedIn dated May 15, 2025, that “a large portion of the Papercup team is joining Scale AI, a company I’ve long admired for shaping the future of AI across both public and enterprise sectors.”
While both Shemen and AI data annotation giant Scale AI are seemingly keeping details of their merger under wraps, Shemen also said in his post that “It is a bittersweet moment. While it’s difficult to see Papercup take a different path than I had imagined, I’m deeply proud of what we accomplished.” He is joining Scale himself, but it is not known what his role will be.

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Why 'AI Everywhere' Isn’t a Localization Strategy

"The article titled ""Why 'AI Everywhere' Isn’t a Localization Strategy"" critiques the ineffective approach of uniformly applying AI solutions globally. It emphasizes the necessity of customizing AI implementations to align with specific cultural, linguistic, and regional requirements to ensure successful localization and global adoption.

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Will YouTube Succeed with AI Translated Dubbing?

"If anyone had heard in the 2010s the prediction that YouTube VP, Amjad Hanif, is quoted as saying in a Bloomberg article about AI dubbing, skepticism would have likely reigned on social media: in five years, “every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language.”
In 2025, this is more plausible, so no great skepticism, no millions of exploding-head emojis. Well, perhaps not every spoken language. But at the dizzying rate language AI is advancing (just look at what HeyGen’s Avatar or ElevenLabs’ Actor Mode can do), AI dubbing is set to improve and dominate over human dubbing a lot sooner than 2030.

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US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Outlook for Translators and Interpreters Worsens

"Market performance and unemployment rates are standard indicators of the mood of the economy. For the language industry, rates and employment levels are two additional important factors.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in an April 2025 update to its Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), reported some mixed news for translators and interpreters (T&Is) — specifically those who are employees.
The BLS estimated about 78,300 jobs in 2023, with nearly one-third (32%) of those being self-employed. (Data on their earnings was not included in the OOH.)

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