2025 Recap and 2026 Predictions!

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Dec 19, 202531:26Business

In the 2025 year-end episode of SlatorPod, hosts Florian Faes and Esther Bond reflect on a year defined by rapid AI investment, shifting policy, and structural change across the language industry. Esther opens the year-i...

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