Month: May 2025
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Having Gemini Chunk A Transcript Instead Of Following Timecodes
Unlike written news articles, which often focus on a single story, television news transcripts represent continuous stream-of-consciousness streams of words…
A First Glimpse Of Using Language Detection To Identify Language Examples From The TV News Archive
A year ago we explored applying language detection to selections from the Chirp-generated ASR transcripts of the TV News Archive,…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash/Lite, Gemma 3 1/4/12/27B & ChatGPT 4o/o3
As part of our continuing series in using LLMs to segment television news broadcasts into their component stories, let's return…
Interpretable Machine Learning for Macro Alpha: A News Sentiment Case Study
This study introduces an interpretable machine learning (ML) framework to extract macroeconomic alpha from global news sentiment. We process the…
Planetary Scale AI: Watching, Visualizing And Forecasting The Entire World In Realtime
It was a tremendous honor to speak at the Americas Google Developer Experts (GDE) Summit last week to my fellow…
Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: Summarize Trump's Middle East Visit
Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, today we'll take our end-to-end recommender service workflow and ask Gemini 2.5 Pro to…
Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: Analyze A Day Of Global AI Trends
Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, today we'll take our end-to-end recommender service workflow and ask Gemini 2.5 Pro…
Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: An Investment Advisor On How To Make Money
Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, we're going to follow the same workflow of our end-to-end recommender service, but this time…
Behind The Scenes: XML Tags In TV News Closed Captioning Streams
Traditional broadcast closed captioning is both a powerful human-generated realtime transcript of television news and a source of uncountable oddities…
Automatic large-scale political bias detection of news outlets
Political bias is an inescapable characteristic in news and media reporting, and understanding what political biases people are exposed to…
Behind The Scenes: Machine Translation Of Belarusian, Iranian, Russian and Ukrainian Channels Resumes
We are excited to announce today that the final stage in our television news processing pipeline has resumed: we are…
Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: Summarizing Trends From A Day Of Global Tariff & Trade War News
Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, today we're going to provide an end-to-end workflow that begins with downloading the…
Tracking Global Media Attention To Tariffs, Trade Wars, Inflation and Stagflation
The timeline below shows intensity of worldwide media coverage mentioning tariffs and trade wars: Inflation mentions peaked in late…