Earlier this month, Meta announced the development of its large language model Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B), which has been trained on 175 billion parameters from public datasets. 

A bill in the Louisiana State Senate could allow schools to offer programming languages in place of a foreign language.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that its Reading Progress tool — a free platform that allows teachers to assess students’ reading progress — will include Ukrainian in its list of available languages.

There is an increasing call for interpreters and bilingual speakers, but why is the word "certified" left out so often? Marjolein talks to Bill and Gabe — the founders of language testing company ParrotUSA about the meaning and importance of verified language skills today. 

There’s a new player in the content translation space. And thanks to an innovative new business model, HelloTranslate aims to make content translation more affordable for smaller players. 

A February article in Business Insider Africa listed the 10 largest African economies to invest in as of 2022. Those economies come with their own array of important African languages.

A Canadian Federal Court has ordered two airports in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador to pay thousands in damages for official language rights violations, stemming from complaints by language activist Michel Thibodeau. 

A 134-page report from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy warns researchers and policymakers alike against the potential dangers of large language models (LLMs), which have been on the rise in recent years.

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has introduced a new framework for interpreting slang in natural language processing (NLP).

Beyond the theoretical definitions, the distinction between what we call a language and what we call a dialect gets a lot murkier very quickly. Quite often, politics play an important role in whether something gets labeled a language or a dialect.