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Apr 21, 2026

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8 min read

Babylon Newsletter, Issue #6

This week: what social media is doing to democracy, two newsrooms replacing the static article, and four sessions from Perugia worth watching.

Mirko Lorenz

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Apr 14, 2026

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15 min read

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 7, 2026

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11 min read

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 1, 2026

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8 min read

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

Mar 24, 2026

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8 min read

Babylon Newsletter, Issue #2

This week: AI is reading everything and paying for nothing. Two very different proposals want to change that. Plus: A quick briefing on RSL (Really Simple Licensing) and how it works.

Mirko Lorenz

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Mar 17, 2026

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10 min read

Babylon Newsletter, Issue #1

Exploring the evolution of AI language technologies and the future of content.What are new developments? What works?

Mirko Lorenz