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Tracing How CNN, MSNBC/MSNOW & Fox News Have Covered The Reflecting Pool Story

Earlier today, after reading a WSJ article about Richard Nixon's newfound popularity with the young conservative movement, we explored how…

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Tracing Nixon On Television News Over 17 Years: CNN, MSNBC/MSNOW & Fox News

Last month the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating article about how Richard Nixon has emerged as an unlikely icon…

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Gemini Vertex API Rate Limiting By Estimating Token Counts Vs Using The countTokens API

Yesterday we demonstrated how switching from rate limiting by requests per minute (RPM) to rate limiting by tokens per minute…

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Gemini For Museums: From A Bookplate & Stamp To The Auction Record For An Ex-Folger Ex-Smedley Alciato Emblems Book

How can AI help museums better understand the provenance of the works in their collections? Last month we showcased how Gemini…

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The Importance Of Estimating Token Counts For Gemini Vertex API Rate Limiting

As work to apply our Media Trends analysis reports backwards to the entire quarter-century TV News Archive (no data is…

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Gemini For Museums: Cataloging An Ex-Folger Ex-Smedley Alciato Emblems Book – The Origins Of The Emblems Format

The very first 16th century book acquired by The Collection was a 1566 Emblemata by Andrea Alciato, published by Guillaume…

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Creating Tailored Customized Daily Reports Using Gemini Deep Research + Our Media Trends Reports

Our daily Media Trends reports offer a wealth of deep analysis each morning, ranging from domestic stability to global posturing…

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Using Gemini To Map A Day Of Global Events Through The Lens Of Our Media Trends Reports

What would it look like to ask Gemini to visualize a day of our Media Trends Reports as a map?…

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How The Humble "Tidy" Command Is Helping Us Clean Up Gemini's HTML Errors: Post-Processing LLM HTML Output

Our daily Media Trends reports are entirely generated by Gemini (no data is used to train or tune any model),…

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Enriching Democracy: Scaling Up Converting US Government Documents (FBIS) To JSON & The "Recitation Block" Safety Failure

This past December we demonstrated how Gemini could be used to digitize and convert into structured JSON format key US…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini Deep Research To Identify & Contextualize A Set Of 500-Year-Old Large Illuminated Choir Leaves

Last July we explored how well the then-latest version of Gemini could decipher two pairs of large choir leaves dating…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini Deep Research To Identify & Contextualize A Set Of 500-Year-Old Book Of Hours Leaves

Earlier this week we demonstrated Gemini Deep Research's ability to correctly catalog and describe a trio of 800-year-old manuscript leaves….

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Experiments In Constructing Event Databases Using Gemini: Leaving It In Gemini's Hands

What would it look like to ask Gemini to make a list of the major events in a day of…

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Post-Adding Risk -> Triggers -> Likelihood -> Impact -> Mitigation Analysis To Our Media Trends Reports Using Gemini

Despite all of the new deep analysis sections we've added over the last few weeks to our daily Media Trends…

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Comparing Gemini 3, 3.1, 3.5, 3.6 Pro, Flash & Flash Lite For Creating a Likelihood-Impact-Triggers-Mitigations Analysis Of Iranian News

What would it look like to run a deep Likelihood-Impact-Triggers-Mitigations analysis over a day of Iranian television news on PressTV…

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Gemini & The Power Of Deep Thematic Analysis In Our Media Trends Reports

One of the most powerful aspects of our daily Media Trends reports is Gemini's ability to look across an entire…

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Using Gemini To Visually Identify The Chyron Text & Bounding Box In A Selection Of Global Television News Coverage

In collaboration with the TV News Archive, we have applied Cloud Vision to OCR more than 19 billion seconds of…

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Gemini For Museums: Restoring The Faded Color Of A 400-Year-Old Map

One of the signatures of The Collection's Estonian holdings is this exceptionally rare 1607 gilded Mercator map of Estonia, believed…

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Using Gemini + Omni To Turn Centuries-Old Jode & Visscher Engravings Into "Living Animations"

Earlier this month we explored turning centuries-old copperplate engravings from the Jode (the first picture Bible) and the Visscher Royal…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini Deep Research To Identify & Contextualize A Set Of 800-Year-Old Manuscript Leaves

The earliest holdings of The Collection comprise three vellum manuscript leaves from the 13th century, making them nearly 800 years…

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AFP: Old clip used to falsely claim Trump cut Canada trade talks

AFP uses the TV News Archive to show that recent social media posts about trade discussions with Canada are recycling…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini Deep Research To Create Rich Historical Backgrounders For A Seminal Collection Of Picture Bibles

Over the last two weeks, we've used Gemini Deep Research to produce richly detailed historical background reports for a collection…

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Gemini For Museums: From Cellphone Photo Of A Civil War Map To A Full Historical Backgrounder

Continuing our series applying Gemini Deep Research to write historical backgrounders for historical artifacts, earlier today we demonstrated Deep Research's…

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Gemini For Museums: Identifying And Contextualizing A Fragile Folded 1939 Estonian Map From A Cellphone Photo Of The Visible Panels

Earlier this week we used Gemini Deep Research to identify a trio of Estonian ceramics that had remained unlabeled in…