Machine translation is about "dynamic prompting" and hybrid workflows. In this episode, we sit down with Ágnes Varga (CTO) and Gábor Bessenyei (Product Manager) from memoQ to discuss their 2025 CODiE Award win for Globalese. We explore how memoQ bridged its MT gap by integrating Globalese, why the industry is moving toward risk-based quality assessment, and why the future of the linguist lies in "data curation" and maintenance.

By Jonathan Otis

Compared with the wider mergers and acquisitions market, the language industry stands out for its moderate growth, fragmented markets, and global footprint. In 2025, much of the localization business saw steady returns while operating largely out of the limelight.

By Veronica Hylak

The article lists the top 10 AI developments in 2025, arguing that this was a year of plateau in AI innovation. The focus shifted from infinite growth to making technology usable, dependable, and aligned with human work.

By Suzanne-Rose Griveau

Noting how AI is transforming the software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry, the author offers seven best practices for SaaS localization workflows — emphasizing that success isn’t about simply accumulating tools, but about fundamentally redesigning processes.

Adam Bittlingmayer, CEO and co-founder of Modelfront, unpacks what it really means to use AI to check and gate AI — deciding which machine translations can safely skip human review and which absolutely cannot.

We talk about the billions of people who still can’t access English-only content, why post-editing hasn’t delivered the promised efficiencies, how quality prediction changes the economics of multilingual publishing, and what this all means for linguists, workflows, and buyers who want to stay in control of their data rather than hand everything over to a single model provider.

This December, one of the industry's most technical events returns. Konstantin Dranch, founder of CustomMT, gives us an inside look at the GenAI in Localization online conference. We explore its “nerdy” and “realist” approach, which substitutes marketing hype for practical, hands-on workshops. He reveals the 2025 program's focus: moving beyond potential to showcase 12 real, operationalized GenAI systems built by localization teams, and how localization leaders must now act as “diplomats” to “search and destroy rogue initiatives.”

In this episode, we explore how SOC 2 is actively redefining what "trust" means in translation technology. Adam Klar, CISO at memoQ, provides a candid look at the "overwhelming" journey to achieving Type 1 certification. He breaks down the critical difference between a Type 1 "snapshot" and a Type 2 "period-in-time" audit, explains why a GRC platform is essential for success, and makes the case for why this standard is the new, non-negotiable baseline for enterprise-grade localization.