Over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide. In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication. These top languages aren’t only defined by their native ...

Experts trace the rise of Indo-European languages as the largest family, from ancient migrations to modern dominance.

Despite advances in multilingual modeling, most language AI systems remain anchored in English. Earlier generations, such as GPT-3, drew over 90% of their pretraining data from English sources, and ...

Language is one of the most powerful links between past and present, carrying culture, tradition, and history across centuries. While thousands of languages have disappeared, some have endured for ...

Imagine a world with no language barriers. That’s the vision of German start-up DeepL, which has built an impressive roster of corporate clients for its artificial intelligence-enabled translation ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...