@Mistral AI has released Voxtral 3, a suite of five specialised speech models: three for transcription (Mini, Small, and Mini Realtime) and two for speech generation (TTS 3 and TTS Realtime 3). Transcription support expands from 13 to 50 languages — including all 24 official EU languages — while speech generation grows from 9 to 35 languages and 50+ dialects. The release also introduces a Voice Agents SDK built on @LiveKit, enabling developers to build multilingual voice agents with tool use, interruption handling, and swappable components.

@Phrase CEO @Georg Ell has announced he will step down after approximately four and a half years leading the company through its post-merger brand unification and AI transformation. No successor has been named. Ell oversaw the integration of AI agents across Phrase’s operations — engineering, customer support, marketing, sales, and product — and launched the Phrase Summit event series and Atlas platform. He will remain a shareholder.

The @Judicial Council of California has approved three changes to court interpreter policy: contractor rate caps of USD 617/day for certified interpreters and USD 540/day for non-certified (matching federal court levels); a Bilingual Interpreting Examination reform allowing candidates to bank passing section scores for up to two years; and an ASL generalist pilot in 6–10 volunteer courts during 2027–2028. The BIE reform responds to a historically low pass rate — only 39 of 472 test takers passed in 2025.

@Localization World Ltd. has acquired the @TAUS events portfolio, a 20+ year programme of language technology conferences. TAUS will pivot entirely to its EPIC language data and evaluation platform, with founder @Jaap van der Meer stating TAUS is shifting “100% of our focus toward EPIC and our evaluation technologies.” @LocWorld will carry forward the TAUS Events brand, managing programming, production, and sponsorship. The announcement coincided with the opening of LocWorld56 in Vancouver.

The UK @National Audit Office has published findings on Justice Transcribe, a Crown-owned AI transcription tool deployed across all probation officers in England and Wales. The Ministry of Justice estimates the tool will save approximately 450,000 staff hours annually. Rolled out between February and March 2026, the tool transcribes probation meetings to assist note-writing. The MoJ is now exploring expansion to prisons, courts, and police services.

@Snapsight has launched Snapsight 2.0, making its live text translation feature free for event organisers. The platform now supports 75 speaker languages and 86 attendee languages, covering over 6,300 language pairs. The update targets conferences, meetings, and live events with real-time transcription and translation capabilities delivered through attendees’ own devices.

@DeepL has partnered with @VAST Data to deploy the VAST AI OS across its European data centres, projecting approximately 3x storage capacity from existing hardware. DeepL’s model training runs on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD systems at EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden. Chief Scientist @Stefan Andresen cited the partnership as particularly valuable for DeepL Voice development, reducing manual data movement that slows research across DeepL’s hybrid European and AWS infrastructure.

@Toloka CTO @Artem Grigorev discussed the evolving landscape of AI training data in a SlatorPod interview, arguing that demand is growing for domain specialists — including PhD-level experts — as LLMs automate simpler annotation tasks. Grigorev highlighted that multilingual AI needs evaluation across languages rather than English-only benchmarks, and introduced Toloka Arena, a private benchmarking initiative that tests AI agents on realistic business workflows.

@Bond Enterprise Language Services (BELS) has expanded its interpretation network across Midwest markets, offering access to 300+ languages through a network of over 20,000 linguists. The Columbus, Ohio-based company, a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), provides 24/7 on-demand remote and in-person interpretation, certified translation, and localization services targeting healthcare, legal, and government sectors.

Media localisation company @VSI has appointed @Andy Bolding as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), a newly created role combining product strategy and technology leadership. The appointment signals VSI’s intent to accelerate technology-driven innovation in its dubbing, subtitling, and media localisation operations.

@Roy Allkin, co-founder of @Wolfestone Group, has been awarded the Eichner Award for Outstanding Service to the Language Industry at the @ATC Language Industry Awards 2026, held during the association’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The award recognises sustained contributions to the UK language services sector.

@Efa Gruffudd Jones has resigned as Welsh Language Commissioner, the regulatory role responsible for promoting and enforcing Welsh language standards across public services in Wales. A successor appointment process is underway.

@MultiLingual has published a profile of @Lone Grønnegård Beheshty, examining three decades of experience in translation technology — from early CAT tool adoption to current AI integration. The piece captures perspectives on how technology adoption patterns in translation have evolved and what today’s AI transition can learn from previous shifts.