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WashPost: Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
The Washington Post uses the TV News Archive's Russia Today archives to identify more than 150 appearances of Ed Martin…
Behind The Scenes: Comparing Bigtable's Python & Go Libraries & Using Gemini 2.5 Pro To Translate Python To Go
GDELT brings together myriad tools, APIs, libraries, scripts and binaries written across a range of programming languages, of which only…
LMMs & Gemini 2.5 Pro Watching Television News: Visually Summarizing & Segmenting TV News Into Stories: A Year Later Part 3
While false positives in Gemini 2.5 Pro's safety filters prevented us from examining how well it could identify the major…
LMMs & Gemini 2.5 Pro Watching Television News: Visually Summarizing & Segmenting TV News Into Stories: A Year Later Part 2
Yesterday we found that Gemini's visual understanding capabilities were roughly where we left them a year ago. However, we were…
LMMs & Gemini Watching Television News: Visually Summarizing & Segmenting TV News Into Stories: A Year Later Part 1
Just over a year ago we explored having the then state of the art LMM Gemini 1.5 Pro "watch" an…
This Week: Google Cloud Next 25
We'll be at Google Cloud Next 25 this week and look forward to talking, drop us a line if you're…
Frontier AI Grand Challenge Problems: Corpus-Scale Reasoning Over A Global 200GB 150+ Language Archive
The most powerful generally available production AI models today max out at around 1-2M total context window tokens, with an…
Television News Visual Explorer: Continual Ongoing ASR Now Live
We are excited to announce today that continual ongoing ASR of the entire TV News Archive is now live! As…
Television News Visual Explorer: ASR Of All Uncaptioned Broadcasts 2001-Present Complete
We are excited today to announce that we have completed machine transcription of every single uncaptioned broadcast in the entire…
Behind The Scenes: Detecting Broadcasts Missing Audio Streams & The Inadvertent Challenges Of Improved Resilience
Our longstanding ASR workflow was based on a submit-once model in which each broadcast needing transcription was submitted a single…
Behind The Scenes: Speeding GCS Inventories By 10X By Dropping Wildcards
A key part of our ASR pipeline involves determining which of the inflight broadcasts has completed processing through GCP Chirp….
CNN: ‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans
Several top Trump administration officials are facing scrutiny for sending detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about…
Death Of A Unicorn & Why Search Quality Is The Make-Or-Break Centerpiece Of The AI Era
Last night I went to AMC's early access screening of Death of a Unicorn (WARNING: spoilers below) and had some…
Washington Post: The new boundary of dangerous DEI in the military: Jackie Robinson
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of the DOD and DEI. Read The Full Article.
Behind The Scenes: The Strange Case Of An Unhappy Service Account & The Unique Complexities Of AI Infrastructure
Modern cloud-based computing infrastructure has grown so reliable over the years that even larger-scale workflows rarely encounter error rates sufficiently…
Behind The Scenes: Scaling From Proof Of Concept To Realtime Production To Archive Scale Retrospective
Migrating a new idea from proof of concept one-off experiments powered by a hodgepodge of scripts, notebooks and cobbled-together tools…
Television News Visual Explorer: Thumbnail Montage Generation Now Updating
We're excited to announce that we have completed generating our Visual Explorer 1/4fps thumbnail montages for the October 2024 –…
Talking To GDELT Through Knowledge Graphs
An interesting paper by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL): In this work we study various Retrieval Augmented Regeneration…
Television News Visual Explorer: TTXT Captioning Mode Annotations Now Updating
We're excited to announce that our TTXT captioning mode annotation files are now being continually updated for all captioned broadcasts…
AFP: Fake Marco Rubio audio on Starlink, Ukraine spreads online
A video spreading online purports to show US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowing on CNN to persuade billionaire Elon…
Behind The Scenes: Identifying Failed Recordings: Why Traditional Video Verification Tools Fail
This past December we explored a range of approaches for detecting failed and corrupted television news recordings, from curation metadata…
Politifact: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
As Fox News viewers waited to hear President Donald Trump begin his address to a joint session of Congress, commentator…
MarketWatch: Trump’s first quarter of GDP is looking shaky. His allies are already trying to shoot the messenger.
It’s looking like the first assessment of the economy for President Donald Trump’s second administration is going to look shaky….
Television News Visual Explorer: October 2024 – Present + Ongoing Updates: Phase 1
We're excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we have completed initial processing of…