Venezuela's VTV Airs Statement On Summit Of The Americas
Venezuela's VTV channel broadcast this on-air statement yesterday afternoon attributed to ALBA-TCP about the country's exclusion from the upcoming Summit…
Venezuela's teleSUR Broadcasts Video From Gaza Flotilla
Venezuela's teleSur (jointly supported by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua) broadcast a video stream earlier this morning from…
Afghanistan's RTA Broadcasts Clip Of Social Media Even As Taliban Sever Internet Access
In an interesting twist, Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), the national television broadcaster controlled by the Taliban, broadcast a clip today…
Russian Television Features Deepfake "Debate" Between Trump & Macron
Russian news commentary show PolitUkladchik pioneered the first national television network use of deepfake "interviews" with world leaders and last…
Visual Explorer: A Layered Workflow For Detecting Corrupt & Empty Broadcasts Using FFMPEG & Chirp ASR
Any archive of television news coverage spanning hundreds of channels from more than 50 countries over more than a quarter…
Visual Explorer: Another 570,000 Broadcasts Totaling 1.29B Seconds & 2.7B Words ASR'd Through Chirp
As complete the final preparations to bring the Visual Explorer back online, we are excited to announce that an additional…
Russian Television "Interviews" Deepfake Macron & Boris – This Time Without On-Screen Disclaimers
Last week we uncovered what is believed to be the first use of deepfake technology by a national television network…
404 Media: Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show
404 Media covers our discovery of PolitUkladchik, "The World's First Television Program Created By AI" on Russian television. Read The…
Snopes: Unpacking claim Charlie Kirk's wife and children witnessed his shooting
Snopes examines claims in the media and on the web about Charlie Kirk's murder. Read The Full Article.
NewsGuard's Reality Check: Russia’s Defense Ministry Launches an AI-Generated, Anti-West News Show, Blurring the Line Between Satire and Propaganda
NewsGuard's Reality Check covers our discovery of PolitUkladchik, "The World's First Television Program Created By AI" on Russian television. Read…
A Deepfake First: Russian Television "Interviews" Deepfake Donald Trump & Ursula von der Leyen About US & EU Policy On Ukraine
For what we believe is the first time, a national television network has broadcast a news commentary show (PolitUkladchik, the…
How AI-Powered Story Cataloging Stumbled Upon The "World's First Television Program Created By AI" On Russian Television
As we continue our experiments using publicly available AI models (no data is used to train or tune any model)…
A First Glimpse At Combining ASR & OCR For Archive-Scale Corrupt & Blank Broadcast Detection
In any archive as large as the TV News Archive, there will invariably be a small percentage of broadcasts that…
Behind The Scenes: Examining & Estimating Token Consumption For Large Gemini Runs Especially Thinking Tokens
Yesterday we unveiled our latest experiments in large-scale story cataloging to help journalists and researchers move from rote keyword searches…
A First Glimpse At Cataloging 12M Stories Across 1.4M Hours Of Television News Spanning 10B Spoken Words Over A Quarter Century
As we continue exploring how to help journalists and scholars move from rote keyword searches towards thinking of television news…
Data Science Accelerated: Gemini Cloud Assist In BigQuery
One of the most cumbersome tasks in data science is all of the bespoke adhoc code that must be written…
Lipton Soup As A Lesson In The Importance Of Clarity When Asking Advanced Models To Visually Catalog Video & Visual Hallucination
We recently spotted a brief appearance of Lipton Chicken Noodle soup in a 2023 television evening news broadcast discussing Boston's…
Using Gemini To Catalog 16 Years Of 24/7 Coverage Across Three Cable News Channels: 20B Tokens Yielding 3.15M Stories
Continuing our story segmentation experiments, we used Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking to "watch" 16 years of three English language 24/7…
Using Gemini To Catalog A Year Of Ukraine TV News Coverage Across Four Countries Totaling 345K Stories For Just $1,190
There is great interest in helping journalists and scholars understand and cover the world's biggest stories each day. Yet, no…
Enriching Democracy: A First Glimpse At Cataloging & Annotating A Year Of The Legislative Process
Earlier this month we demonstrated an incredible first glimpse of applying our new story cataloging workflow to a handful of…
Gemini At Scale: Understanding Tokens In The Real World: A Small Batch Analysis Of 400M Tokens
What does it look like to apply LMMs like Gemini at scale? Specifically, given that "tokens" are the central currency…
Translating Television News From Across The World: Early Experiments Comparing Gemini Versus Google Translate
As we continue to scale up our experiments cataloging the underlying stories being covered across the world's television news coverage…
Combining Chirp ASR + Gemini To Story Segment Television News From Around The World
Continuing our series on segmenting television news broadcasts into their underlying stories, thus far we have explored segmenting only captioned…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: The Impact Of Input Chunking On Token Counts & Index Richness
We've demonstrated that input chunk size appears to have only a minimal impact on story segmentation, with larger chunk sizes…