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Friday, 30 October 2026

Tech

Simon Fraser University hosts Indigenous-led AI project for endangered languages

FLAIR, led by Caroline and Michael Running Wolf, builds small offline speech tools with Gwich'in, Kwakwaka'wakw, Makah and Yawanawá communities, who keep ownership of the data.

Simon Fraser University

Tech

Tencent open-sources Hy-SimulMT, a 3-second Chinese-English AI interpreter

A free, downloadable live interpreter with voice cloning puts simultaneous interpreting within reach of meetings that never had one. The human comparison is Tencent's own small test of 18 recordings and 6 certified interpreters.

Tencent Hunyuan (Hugging Face)

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