Author: Kalev Leetaru
Gemini For Museums: How Gemini Got A 500-Year-Old Book Comparison Wrong Until We Asked It To Write Its Own Prompt
As we've been comparing surviving copies of the 1585 Jode's Thesaurus (arguably the first true "picture Bible") held by institutions…
Gemini For Museums: Merging The Tables Of Contents And 61 Title Cards Into A Single Annotated Index Of The 1585 Jode
Published nearly half a millennia ago in 1585, Jode's Thesaurus is arguably the first true "picture Bible" and in its…
Gemini For Museums: Identifying That An Institution's 1585 Jode Is Actually A Century-Later 1684 Visscher
For decades, the catalog of a major institution has listed a rare 1585 Jode Thesaurus picture Bible among its holdings…
Gemini For Museums: Converting 500-Year-Old Tables Of Contents To Excel Sheets
Researchers using the rare book collections of museums and archives routinely need to transcribe centuries-old table of contents printed in…
Comparing the 2026 & 2027 White House Budget Proposals Using Gemini Deep Research
What does it look like to use Gemini Deep Research to compare the 2026 and 2027 White House budget proposals,…
Turning The 2027 White House Budget Proposal Into Infographics: DHS Deep Dive & Comparing 2026 to 2027
Earlier today we visualized the 2027 White House Budget Proposal as an infographic using Gemini 3 and Nano Banana. Instead…
Turning The 2027 White House Budget Proposal Into An Infographic Using Gemini + Nano Banana Pro + 2
What does it look like to turn the 2027 White House Budget Proposal into an infographic using Gemini 3.1 Flash,…
Using Gemini 3 To Create "Backgrounder" Reports On The History & Context Of Live Current Events
This past weekend we demonstrated using Gemini 3 as an "agentic international think tank in a box," monitoring live news…
A Montage Of A Month Of Iranian Television News Trends Infographics
Each morning we use Gemini 3 to deeply analyze the previous day's coverage of Iranian television news channels IRINN and…
Gemini For Museums: Comparing A Typed & Handwritten Inventory Of A 1585 Jode To Its Original Latin Table Of Contents
As we continue to explore and try to better understand the completeness of a set of several exceptionally rare picture…
Gemini 3 As An Agentic International Think Tank In A Box: Five Reports Deeply Analyzing Iran Based On Yesterday's Iranian TV News Coverage
As a past journalist and columnist, I am on the press mailing lists of most major think tanks in DC…
Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Yesterday's Iranian vs US Coverage Of The Conflict: IRINN vs CNN vs MS NOW vs Fox News
What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast how Iranian vs American…
Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast A Day In The Life Of CNN, MS NOW & Fox News's Parallel Narrative Environments
What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast the totality of yesterday's…
Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Yesterday's CNN, MS NOW & Fox News Coverage Of The DHS Shutdown
What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast yesterday's coverage of the…
Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Yesterday's CNN, MS NOW & Fox News Coverage Of Iran
What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast yesterday's coverage of the…
Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Iran's Foreign & Domestic Television Coverage: IRINN + PressTV
How does the coverage of Iran's foreign (English-language PressTV) and domestic (Persian-language IRINN) television channels compare, where does it overlap…
Gemini As Media Analyst: Using Gemini 3.1 Pro To Deeply Examine The Last 24 Hours Of Iranian State TV For Negotiation Narratives
What has Iranian state television been saying about possible peace negotiations with the United States and how have their domestic…
Gemini For Museums: Museum-Scale Fully Autonomous Page-Level Rich Cataloging, Contextualization & Description Of A 500-Year-Old Picture Bible
As we begin to digitize an incredibly unique collection of nearly complete copies of the seminal "picture Bibles" of the…
Interface In The Era Of AI: Turning The Seminal Picture Bibles Into Flipbooks: First Experiments
In our increasingly AI-intermediated world, the conceptions of user interface, algorithm-free browsing and in-order consumption of books and other printed…
Turning The 2026 DNI Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) Into An Infographic Using Gemini + Nano Banana Pro + 2
What does it look like to turn the DNI's 2026 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) into an infographic using Gemini 3.1…
A Montage Of Half A Month Of Global Media Trends Using Gemini 3.1 + ImageMagick
Yesterday we showed how to use Gemini 3.1 to create the ImageMagick code to turn a directory of media trend…
Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Identify & Translate The Table Of Contents Pages Of The 1585 Jode Picture Bible
Earlier today we demonstrated how Gemini 3.1 could perfectly transcribe and translate into English the Latin text in the introductory…
Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Transcribe & Translate Two 500-Year-Old Latin Poems From The 1585 Jode Picture Bible
Gerard de Jode's 1585 Thesaurus Sacrarum was arguably one of the first true "picture Bibles" and the small number of…
Using Gemini 3.1 To Turn A Directory Of Infographics Into A Global Montage Of A Day Of Media Trends Around The World
What would it look like to visualize a day of media trends around the world, combining the thematic trend analysis…












