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Jan 13, 2025 | 
business.doncaster-chamber.co.uk | Anna Head
Cast is thrilled to announce the record-breaking success of its 2024/25 pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, with 28,523 tickets sold—the highest in the theatre’s history. This achievement underscores Cast’s commitment to delivering exceptional entertainment while ensuring accessibility for all.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
business.doncaster-chamber.co.uk | Anna Head
Rehearsals Begin for Doncaster’s GIANT Family Pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
29 November – 05 January 2025
Rehearsals are officially underway for Cast’s highly anticipated 2024 production of Jack and the Beanstalk, Doncaster’s GIANT family pantomime. The curtain will rise next week, with performances running from Friday 29 November to Sunday 05 January, promising a magical adventure filled with laughter, excitement, and festive cheer.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
business.doncaster-chamber.co.uk | Anna Head
At the heart of our new Communities initiative is a mission to break down the barriers preventing first-time theatre-goers from accessing the arts. Many individuals in our communities face significant challenges that keep them away from cultural venues and drama productions, especially after the impact of COVID-19 and the rising cost of living.
To address this, we’re empowering participants from our Public Acts programme to become ?Community Ambassadors.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
slator.com | Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
On July 24, 2024, US-based Language I/O announced USD 5m in fundraising in a series A2 round led by Gutbrain Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Boston. With participation from several new venture firms, the funding comes less than a year after Language I/O raised USD 8m in a Series A1 round and brings total funding to date to USD 25m. The company, which localizes customer interactions using AI, saw strong growth in the first half of 2024.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
slator.com | Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
A major IT outage on July 19, 2024, highlighted the cybersecurity measures that global companies employ to guard against cyber incidents. The outage was not the result of a cyberattack. Rather, it stemmed from a routine software update by a major US cybersecurity company that conflicted with Microsoft operating systems, leading to widespread disruption. Cybersecurity is an increasingly important topic in the language industry.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
slator.com | Slator Con |Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
Can AI solve real human problems? This is a question that Karolina Sjöberg, Co-founder and CEO of Mabel AI, and Snow Huo, Co-founder and CEO of Byrdhouse AI, have tackled head-on. Both CEOs founded real-time AI speech translation startups in 2022. Sjöberg, a doctor by training, gained firsthand experience of the impact that language barriers can have in medical settings. She saw a pressing need for an app that translates medical conversations. Huo was also motivated to solve her own problems first.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
slator.com | Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
Apple has announced two new translation APIs at its annual World Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which ran from June 10 to June 14, 2024. While consumers were the audience for the newly unveiled Apple watch translation gadget, this API announcement is firmly targeted at app developers who wish to reach a wider user base.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
slator.com | Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
An early software prototype for AI agentic translation was released on 11 June 2024 by a leading AI researcher. The experiment was a “fun weekend project” for Andrew Ng, who released the results as an open-source demo. Now Andrew Ng is not just another AI researcher. Ng is a co-founder of Coursera, the founder of DeepLearning.AI, and the Managing General Partner of AI Fund. He’s also a co-founder of Google Brain alongside fellow AI luminary Jeff Dean.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
slator.com | Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
The landscape of large language models (LLMs) is changing fast. The pace of releases is accelerating, along with performance and capability advances. Models are becoming more multimodal, and covering a wider range of languages. The Slator 2024 Language Industry Market Report examines how quickly LLMs are changing and considers the implications for language industry players that build applications on top of these “base” models.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
slator.com | Anna Wyndham |Anna Head
Nearly 25% of language service providers now offer AI content generation as a service. This is from an April 2024 Slator survey, conducted for the 2024 Slator Language Industry Market Report. The survey, which elicited responses from 129 language service providers (LSPs) ranging from Boutiques to Super Agencies, asked respondents to indicate the AI language services that the company currently offers.
