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YouTube... started defaulting to auto-translated audio.
It would default to my "preferred language".
My #preference is the original #language, and I speak multiple ones. That is not an option though. So I have to manually change the audio track or turn off CC all the time - w…

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/perplexity-launches-a-200-mo…

Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan | TechCrunch
Perplexity launched a $200 monthly subscription plan this week, becoming the latest AI provider to offer a hyper-premium tier.

from my link log —
Implement your programming language twice.
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2025-05-07-implement-your-language-twice.html
saved 2025-05-08

Ukraine launches missile attack against Crimea, Donetsk and Rostov: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-launches-missile-attack-against.html

Natural language processing for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

Natural language processing for African languages
Recent advances in word embeddings and language models use large-scale, unlabelled data and self-supervised learning to boost NLP performance. Multilingual models, often trained on web-sourced data like Wikipedia, face challenges: few low-resource languages are included, their data is often noisy, and lack of labeled datasets makes it hard to evaluate performance outside high-resource languages like English. In this dissertation, we focus on languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa where all the …

Teaching a Language Model to Speak the Language of Tools
Simeon Emanuilov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23394 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Teaching a Language Model to Speak the Language of Tools
External tool integration through function-calling is essential for practical language model applications, yet most multilingual models lack reliable tool-use capabilities in non-English languages. Even state-of-the-art multilingual models struggle with determining when to use tools and generating the structured outputs required for function calls, often exhibiting language confusion when prompted in lower-resource languages. This work presents a methodology for adapting existing language model…

Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/clou

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Hybrid EEG--Driven Brain--Computer Interface: A Large Language Model Framework for Personalized Language Rehabilitation
Ismail Hossain, Mridul Banik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22892

Hybrid EEG--Driven Brain--Computer Interface: A Large Language Model Framework for Personalized Language Rehabilitation
Conventional augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems and language-learning platforms often fail to adapt in real time to the user's cognitive and linguistic needs, especially in neurological conditions such as post-stroke aphasia or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Recent advances in noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG)--based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and transformer--based large language models (LLMs) offer complementary strengths: BCIs capture users' neural intent w…

Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/clou

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US
The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.