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An Entrepreneur contributor opinion piece argues that AI companies defaulting to English-first product design are overlooking a vast multilingual user base. The piece cites ITU data showing 2.2 billion people remained offline in 2025, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, and warns that simply bolting translation onto English-trained models produces uneven results across languages.
Mistral AI and Mozilla announced a partnership making Mistral's models power Firefox's beta AI browsing assistant, Smart Window, which helps users navigate searches, recall browsing history, and pull information from open tabs. The rollout starts in France and North America, with the UK and Germany planned later this year.
Google is rolling out a new live translation option within Gemini Live's voice settings, allowing the AI to translate spoken conversations between languages in real time with on-screen captions. The rollout also includes a smaller interface tweak, replacing the keyboard exit button with a clearer X icon and adding a 'Tap to interrupt' control, as part of a gradual server-side update following April's UI redesign.