Author: Kalev Leetaru
Translating The Planet: Comparing Google Translate, Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro & Gemini 3 On TV News
The Internet Archive's TV News Archive spans 50 countries over the past quarter century, with as many as 150 languages…
Syrian TV Segment On Teens Learning Life From ChatGPT Vs Parents
The second half of this Syrian TV broadcast focuses on teens learning about key life questions, the growing role of…
Gemini As Indiana Jones: How Gemini 3.0 Helped Reveal A 1583 Aldine Cicero Wrapped In A 1487 Incunable Biblia Latina
Older books can offer fascinating history lessons as you dig into their layers (literally) like an archaeological dig. Once upon…
Experiments With Gemini ASR: Long-Tail Language Support & Prompt Optimization
One of the greatest challenges we confront each day with the TV News Archive is the sheer diversity of languages…
Syrian Television Emphasizes International Acceptance Of New Government
Syrian television news over the past few days has aired clips of Syrian government officials meeting their counterparts in the…
Video: Web Summit 2025: Watching The Entire World In Realtime Through AI
The video of Kalev's Web Summit 2025 stage presentation in Lisbon titled "Watching The Entire World In Realtime Through AI"…
Next Week: Web Summit 2025 In Lisbon
Can't wait to see you all at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon next week! Learn More.
TV News Explorer: Categorizing 3.7M Broadcasts Totaling 7B Seconds Of Global Television News At 2s Resolution For Just $48.4K
As we prepare to bring the TV News Explorer back online, we needed a way to perform high-resolution categorization of…
DW: "Beating Censorship: What Really Works"
Earlier this month DW ran this fascinating brief 15-minute story on "Beating Censorship: What Really Works", exploring DNS, national…
Public Service Announcements Around The World: A Pair Of 2016 Nigerian Counter-Terrorism & Lassa Fever PSAs
Public Service Announcements (PSAs) offer a fascinating glimpse into the topics governments around the world view as societally important at…
Tucker Carlson's Face Still Appears On Russian Television In Ads For "Tucker" On Russia 24
Once a fixture on Russian television in the form of regular clips rebroadcast from his American show, Tucker Carlson's face…
Wall-To-Wall Coverage Of No Kings Protests, Trump & Gaza On RT Yesterday
Russia Today ran almost wall-to-wall coverage yesterday focused on the No Kings Protests, the Trump administration and Gaza. Learn More.
Russian Television Features Episode of Smirnov's "Large Caliber Commotion" Including Look At A Terminator
Russia 24 featured an episode from Alexey Smirnov's "Крупнокалиберный Переполох" ("Large Caliber Commotion") show featuring a look at some of…
Belarusian Media: Zelenskyy White House Meeting & Coverage Of US Shutdown & BLS Firing
Belarusian television news today covered both the White House's refusal to provide Ukraine with Tomahawks (showing an Axios article onair)…
Promotional Military Imagery On Afghanistan's RTA
While much of Afghanistan's RTA television channel airtime covers more mundane Taliban topics, there are an interesting number of highly…
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.