DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski told Jon Fortt the AI-translation firm is moving from text into real-time spoken translation, acquiring San Francisco audio startup Mixhalo to power live translation at events, meetings and customer service, and opening a Bay Area office. He said the 2026 memory crunch has raised some costs but DeepL, running its own data centers since 2017, is prepared, and flagged Europe’s public-sector push for data sovereignty.