It’s like Babel Fish but not in your ear. It’s like Babel Fish but not in your ear. is a reporter who writes about AI. She also covers the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy.

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has unveiled an AI model called SeamlessM4T that can translate and transcribe speech in up to 100 languages. The model supports speech recognition, speech-to-text ...

A universal translator akin to the Babel Fish from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” might soon be possible. It’s all thanks to Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research ...

Meta, the technology company formerly known as Facebook, has unveiled an advanced multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model named 'SeamlessM4T.' This versatile model is capable of ...

Google's AI ambitions are accelerating at breakneck speed. In 2025 and early 2026 alone, the company launched Gemma 3, its latest family of open-weight foundation models, introduced MedGemma for ...