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Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

PLSEMANTICSBENCH: Large Language Models As Programming Language Interpreters
Aditya Thimmaiah, Jiyang Zhang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Junyi Jessy Li, Milos Gligoric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03415

PLSEMANTICSBENCH: Large Language Models As Programming Language Interpreters
As large language models (LLMs) excel at code reasoning, a natural question arises: can an LLM execute programs (i.e., act as an interpreter) purely based on a programming language's formal semantics? If so, it will enable rapid prototyping of new programming languages and language features. We study this question using the imperative language IMP (a subset of C), formalized via small-step operational semantics (SOS) and rewriting-based operational semantics (K-semantics). We introduce three ev…

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Imagining a language without booleans.
https://justinpombrio.net/2025/09/22/imagining-a-language-without-booleans.html
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Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

Russia launches massive overnight drone and missile strike across Ukraine, damaging energy and rail infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/russia-launches-massive-overnight-drone.html

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-launche…

OpenAI launches AgentKit to help developers build and ship AI agents  | TechCrunch
“AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production, it is everything you need to build, deploy and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Sam Altman said Monday at OpenAI's Dev Day.  

Ukraine submits draft education language law to Hungary, awaits response: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/07/ukraine-submits-draft-education-language.html

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

OpenAI researchers argue that language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over admitting uncertainty (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate