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Babylon Newsletter, Issue #5

AI companies are building empires on content they did not pay for. This week: RSL, the licensing standard trying to change that. Plus Meta's ad-driven AI for 3.6 billion users, Microsoft's new voice stack, ElevenLabs goes on-premise, call centers under pressure, and a new word: Tokenmaxxing.

Mirko Lorenz

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Apr 14, 2026

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Babylon Newsletter, Issue #4

Key topic this week: The language your organisation works in is not neutral infrastructure. It is a variable that determines what you pay, what quality you receive in transcripts and translations, and which cultural assumptions are active inside every model you deploy. This issue of the Babylon newsletter provides deeper insights and statistics where that imbalance comes from — and the legal, technical, and political responses now taking shape around it.

Mirko Lorenz

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Apr 7, 2026

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Babylon Newsletter, Issue #3

Content summary: AI is causing language damage in Norway • Overview of subtitling rules in the UK • Dutch paper argues that media is critical infrastructure • Google Research: New compression algorithm to reduce LLM memory requirements

Mirko Lorenz

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Apr 1, 2026