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Rosalía released her fourth album Lux, which reflects on her 2023 breakup with Rauw Alejandro through a diverse musical style and 13 languages, incorporating orchestral elements and collaborations with artists like Björk and Yves Tumor, while exploring themes of love, transcendence, and mortality.
Rosalía's album Lux is an ambitious, global, and maximalist project recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, blending classical, folk, and electronic music across 13 languages, inspired by feminine mysticism and her personal journey of transformation and cultural fusion.
Pope Leo XIV made a significant impression during the youth Jubilee in Rome, engaging with young people through unscripted speeches, multilingual communication, and personal interactions, emphasizing the importance of encountering Christ, genuine friendships, and peace amidst global conflicts.
Apple has developed two advanced multilingual, multimodal foundation language models: a 3-billion-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple silicon and a scalable server model using a novel PT-MoE transformer, both supporting multiple languages and image understanding. These models power Apple Intelligence features across devices and services, with a focus on responsible AI, privacy, and developer integration through a new Swift-based framework. They outperform comparable open models in benchmarks and human evaluations, enhancing user experiences with efficient, accurate, and responsible AI capabilities.
During her Eras Tour stop in Lyon, France, Taylor Swift paused her performance to help a fan in distress, speaking in French to request security assistance. This act is part of her ongoing efforts to ensure fan safety at her concerts, having done similar interventions in other cities like Madrid, Lisbon, and Stockholm. Swift's commitment to fan well-being is evident, especially following the tragic death of a fan in Rio de Janeiro last year.
A team of computer scientists has developed a more flexible machine learning model that periodically forgets what it knows, allowing it to better learn new languages. By resetting the model's embedding layer during training, the approach makes it easier to adapt the model to new languages, even with smaller data sets and computational limits. This selective forgetting technique mimics human memory processes and could lead to more adaptable AI language models, potentially benefiting less commonly supported languages.
Popular web browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari come with built-in translation tools that allow users to read websites in different languages. These browsers automatically detect foreign languages and offer translation options through pop-up dialogs or buttons in the address bar. Users can customize translation settings, exempt specific sites from translation, and manage lists of languages that are always or never translated. While Firefox's translation feature is still in beta and not available on mobile, Safari offers a simple translation option with no additional settings.
Reddit now allows users to translate posts into eight different languages on its iOS and Android apps and web platform. The translation feature is currently available for posts, with plans to expand to comments in the future. Reddit is using Google services for translations. Additionally, Reddit is deprecating its previous coins system, which will no longer allow users to give awards. The company has not yet shared details about the new awards system, but there is speculation that it may involve turning gold or Reddit karma into real money.
Meta has released a new speech-to-text model called SeamlessM4T, which can translate speech-to-text and text-to-text for nearly 100 languages. The model represents a significant breakthrough as it performs the entire translation task in one go, unlike other large translation models. It also has the alleged ability to recognize code-switching, where speakers move between two or more languages in one sentence. Meta has been actively releasing its AI models to developers and researchers, aiming to improve language translation and moderation on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The company has also focused on addressing issues such as toxic language and gender bias in translations.
Adobe has expanded its Firefly AI Tools by adding support for over 100 languages, allowing users to create and customize AI models in a wide range of languages. The update aims to enhance the accessibility and usability of Adobe's AI tools for a global user base, enabling more diverse and multilingual applications of artificial intelligence.
Meta has developed Voicebox, a versatile AI model that can perform speech generation tasks like editing, sampling, and stylizing that it wasn't specifically trained to do through in-context learning. The model can produce high-quality audio clips, edit pre-recorded audio, and is multilingual, capable of producing speech in six languages. Voicebox's versatility enables a variety of tasks, including in-context text-to-speech synthesis, speech editing and noise reduction, cross-lingual style transfer, and diverse speech sampling.
If you are fluent in a language other than English, you can earn extra cash by offering translation services. Translation gigs can be found on sites like Fiverr, Upwork, and Thumbtack, or through job listing sites like Freelancer.com and LinkedIn. Translators can make an average of $37 per hour in the U.S. and can translate a variety of materials, from legal documents to novels.