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The Agentic Think Tank: Using Gemini Deep Research To Research & Write Policy Background Papers
As we continue our work exploring the concept of the Gemini-powered "Agentic Think Tank", today we look at using Gemini…
Turning The Draft US-Iran Agreement Into An Infographic With Gemini
What does it look like to use Gemini to turn the draft US-Iran agreement into an infographic? Here we explore…
Using Gemini & Google Web Search To Estimate The Terms That Correlate With A TV News Timeline
One of the most striking aspects of last week's experiments using Gemini to turn keyword searches into beautiful annotated timelines…
A Brief Glimpse At Spanner's Multilingual Tokenization: Multiple On-Screen Languages & Code Switching
GDELT monitors the world today in more than 400 written languages, while its collaborations with the Internet Archive's TV News…
Tracking @realDonaldTrump 2025-2026 Across CNN, MSNBC/MSNOW & Fox News
Yesterday we showcased visualizing how often certain topics were mentioned in the onscreen text of CNN, MSNBC/MSNOW and Fox News…
Agentic AI At Scale: Observations & Challenges From Agentic AI For SQL Tuning & Optimizing Massive Databases
As AI and especially agentic AI capabilities have continued to improve, we've been increasingly incorporating autonomous code and infrastructure generation,…
A First Glimpse At A New Era In Data-Driven Journalism Using TV News: 25-Year OCR + Spanner Search + Gemini Graphing
One of the goals of the Internet Archive's TV News Archive is to enable journalists and scholars to perform public…
Two Million More Broadcasts Added To The Television News NGram Dataset
Two weeks ago we announced the new Television News NGram Dataset in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive…
Video: Web Summit 2026: Planetary-Scale AI Reasoning To Watch, Understand & Forecast The World
Every day, billions of stories unfold across the globe in thousands of languages told through video, audio and text. See…
Agentic AI At Scale: Why News & The Real World Is So Different From Source Code
At a glitzy rooftop reception on the sidelines of Web Summit in Vancouver earlier this month I was giving an…
Scaling GDELT For A New Era: Agentic Gemini Human-In-The-Loop Web Server & Kernel Tuning
While we continue the architectural design of our new generation of web server fleet to handle GDELT's exponentially growing web…
Announcing The New Television News NGram Dataset: ASR, Translated ASR & OCR Trigrams
We are tremendously excited today to announce the launch of the new Television News NGram Dataset in collaboration with the…
Gemini For Museums: A Look A Year Later At A Pair Of 500-Year-Old Choir Book Leaves
One of our earliest Gemini For Museums explorations was an analysis a year ago with the then state-of-the-art Gemini 2.5…
Gemini For Museums: Assessing & Contextualizing A Small Asiatic Leaf Collection
Amongst the History of Writing & Printing subcollection of the thousand-year collection we've been exploring with Gemini is a small…
IRINN's Preview Of The Latest Strait of Hormuz Proposed Deal Details
Iranian television news channel IRINN earlier today previewed the details of the latest Strait of Hormuz proposed deal. The machine-generated…
An Interesting Largely AI-Generated Ad On Russia's Zvezda TV Channel Recruiting For The Information Battlefield
Earlier this week Russia's Zvezda television news channel ran an interesting and curious recruiting ad for its Prince Alexander Nevsky…
PolyGnosis 2.0: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Agentic Harness Engineering for Polymarket and OSINT Insight Extraction
This paper introduces PolyGnosis 2.0, a pioneering multi-agent architecture designed to extract predictive intelligence by synthesizing Polymarket anomaly signals with…
Scaling GDELT For A New Era: The Power Of Go, Daemon Proxies, Gemini Advice & Agentic Self-Healing
Earlier this month we previewed how we were moving our GCS and BigTable infrastructure connectivity to Go-based daemon proxies running…
Securing The AI World: The Critical Importance Of GCP Firewalls & IAP Proxy
Most of the focus on AI today centers on model capabilities and scaling deployments, but even more important is securing…
Using Gemini Deep Research To Map Global Strait of Hormuz Blockade Impacts: When A Problem Is Too Large For The Model Context Windows
One of the greatest challenges in scaling AI-powered "deep research" analyses to complex global-scale topics is the limited size of…
Comparing Gemini's Theoretical Estimates To Actual Benchmarks When Having Gemini Pick CPU Platforms On GCE
As we head towards the launch of GDELT 5, we've been hard at work upgrading our GCE VMs to the…
Scaling GDELT For A New Era: Moving To Daemon Proxies For BigTable & GCS Using Agentic Gemini
Beneath its simple public APIs, datasets and interfaces, GDELT is powered by a massive globally distributed infrastructure that depends on…
Gemini & New Evidence That NARA's Copperplate Printed Both The Vellum & Paper Stone Declaration Of Independence Copies
The Declaration of Independence that we know today is actually not a photograph of the original signed parchment document on…
Announcing Our New Daily "Today's Trends On Capitol Hill" & "Today's Media Trends" Newsletter Briefings
How can responsibly applied advanced AI help journalists, scholars and policymakers better understand the emerging trends, themes and patterns of…