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Visual Explorer: How The World Is Covering The Events In Russia

With the Visual Explorer's new thumbnail-based instantly skimmable homepage, you can now instantly survey how the world's media are covering…

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Spinmeisters Of Iran: PressTV Provides Regular Updates On Russian Coup-In-Progress While IRINN Gives Less Airtime

Iran's English-language PressTV is providing steady coverage of the Russian coup-in-progress and appears to actually be giving it more airtime…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV News Not Heavily Covering Wagner's Attempted Coup

Remarkably, unlike American media that typically turn to 24/7 coverage of major breaking events, Russian television news is continuing with…

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Cataloging 14 Years Of Obama, Trump, Biden And DeSantis Appearances On CNN, MSNBC And Fox News

Earlier this week we unveiled a massive new catalog of every appearance of a human face across CNN, MSNBC and…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Sample Russian TV News Coverage Of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's Statement

With Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's statement, below are two clips showing samples of how Russian television news is covering the…

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Visual Explorer: New Daily Broadcast Catalog Visual Interface

We're excited to announce today a major new update to the Visual Explorer's homepage that transforms how we display the…

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Iran's PressTV: "What's In The Bathroom"

Iranian television news channel PressTV today aired a satiric episode titled "What's in the Bathroom" covering the legal saga over…

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TV Visual Explorer: Catalonia's TV3 Now Available

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, Catalonia's TV3 channel is now available in the Visual Explorer. Over…

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CNN Leads The Way In TV News Coverage Of The Titanic Submersible Search

CNN is leading coverage of the Titanic submersible search, mentioning it twice as much as BBC News and nearly four…

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Enriching Democracy: Connecting Our Nation's Legislation To The Legislative Process Via Deep Linking CSPAN

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, over the past few months we have explored the concept of…

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Extending The Face Detection Database To American TV News: 14 Years Of CNN, MSNBC & Fox News

Earlier this year we unveiled a massive new database of facial embeddings spanning one full year across seven Belarusian, Russian…

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Extending The Face Detection Database To American TV News: Coming Tomorrow

Stay tuned for a major new announcement tomorrow about facial embeddings!

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Visual Explorer: Ron DeSantis & Barack Obama Added To TV News Public Figures Embedding Database

This past May we unveiled the Visual Explorer TV News Public Figures Embedding Database that contains precomputed embeddings for major…

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Entity Extraction: LLMs Versus Classical Neural Model + Live-Updating Knowledge Graph

Large language models are increasingly being positioned as a wholesale replacement for nearly all language analysis tasks, from Q&A and…

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Generative AI: Using LLM's To Produce Audience-Tailored Translations In Place Of Classical NMT's One-Size-Fits-All

Last month we explored the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce higher-quality translations than traditional Neural Machine Translation…

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WashPost: Documents Show How Conservative Doctors Influenced Abortion, Trans Rights

The Washington Post examines media coverage of abortion and trans rights. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: Republicans Keep Spilling Cold Water On Their Biden Bribery Allegations

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines television news coverage of the Biden bribery allegations. Read The Full Article.

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Generative AI: Using LLMs To Produce Culturally Recent Translations Vs Classical NMT – "Dropping" A Song

Last month we explored the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce higher-quality translations than traditional Neural Machine Translation…

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WashPost: DeSantis's Campaign Launch Fizzled

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores media coverage of DeSantis' campaign launch. Read The Full Article.

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Fox News & Last Night's "Wannabe Dictator" Chyron

Last night, Fox News ran briefly ran the chyron "WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL…

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Generative Search: The Curious Case Of Comet Cleaner's Active Ingredient

The use of LLMs to interpret and summarize search results (so-called "generative search") is widely touted as the future of…

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Embedding Models: Multilingual Embedding Versus Machine Translation + English Embedding

There are at least 7,000 languages actively spoken today across the world, yet much of the focus of embedding models…

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Embedding Models: Mitigating Knowledge Cutoffs Through Replacement Terms

Embedding models represent a snapshot in time of world knowledge. Like knowledge graphs, LLMs and all other forms of machine…

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Embedding Models Vs Classical Sentiment Analysis For Tone & Framing Search

Yesterday we examined the significant limitations of using embeddings to search by tone and framing, demonstrating that embeddings are not…