UK County Issues Translation and Interpreting Tender Valued at GBP 15M – slator.com

The UK’s East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has issued a two-stage tender notice for translation and interpreting services to replace a framework expiring on December 31, 2025. The multiple-supplier framework’s estimated value is GBP 15m (USD 20m) before VAT. It is slated to last four years, beginning in January 2026. The ESCC has designated this […]

Public Sector Interpreting in the UK May Be About to Change – slator.com

The UK’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published details of a proposed new framework for public service interpreting, which includes recommended changes to the existing qualifications and experience required of public service interpreters in England and Scotland from October 2026. The proposed new framework has been published as part of an independent technical review on […]

How Apple Wants to Fix Hallucinations in AI Translation – slator.com

In a January 28, 2025, paper Rajen Chatterjee and Sarthak Garg from Apple, along with Zilu Tang from Boston University, presented a framework for mitigating translation hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). According to the researchers, “this is among the first works to demonstrate how to mitigate translation hallucination in LLMs.” They explained that LLM-based […]