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Using Gemini 2.5 Pro To Assess Evidence Sourcing & Credibility In News Reporting On Conflict

One of the most critical pieces of information that must be asked about any conflicting reporting is the sourcing of…

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Mass Translating Global Television News: Comparing Gemini Pro/Flash/2.5/2.0, Gemma & Google Translate

The Television News Archive spans more than 16.7 billion spoken characters of non-English news broadcasts from across the world spanning…

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Video: Planetary Scale AI: Watching, Visualizing And Forecasting The Entire World In Realtime

The video of my talk at the Americas Google Developer Experts (GDE) Summit following Google I/O 2025 is now available!…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash Thinking/Flash & Gemini 2.0 Flash/Flash-Light

Yesterday we demonstrated a major leap forward in our efforts to apply at-scale story segmentation to television news: changing from…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Having Gemini Chunk A Transcript Instead Of Following Timecodes

Unlike written news articles, which often focus on a single story, television news transcripts represent continuous stream-of-consciousness streams of words…

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A First Glimpse Of Using Language Detection To Identify Language Examples From The TV News Archive

A year ago we explored applying language detection to selections from the Chirp-generated ASR transcripts of the TV News Archive,…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash/Lite, Gemma 3 1/4/12/27B & ChatGPT 4o/o3

As part of our continuing series in using LLMs to segment television news broadcasts into their component stories, let's return…

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Interpretable Machine Learning for Macro Alpha: A News Sentiment Case Study

This study introduces an interpretable machine learning (ML) framework to extract macroeconomic alpha from global news sentiment. We process the…

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Planetary Scale AI: Watching, Visualizing And Forecasting The Entire World In Realtime

It was a tremendous honor to speak at the Americas Google Developer Experts (GDE) Summit last week to my fellow…

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Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: Summarize Trump's Middle East Visit

Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, today we'll take our end-to-end recommender service workflow and ask Gemini 2.5 Pro to…

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Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: Analyze A Day Of Global AI Trends

Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, today we'll take our end-to-end recommender service workflow and ask Gemini 2.5 Pro…

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Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: An Investment Advisor On How To Make Money

Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, we're going to follow the same workflow of our end-to-end recommender service, but this time…

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Behind The Scenes: XML Tags In TV News Closed Captioning Streams

Traditional broadcast closed captioning is both a powerful human-generated realtime transcript of television news and a source of uncountable oddities…

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Automatic large-scale political bias detection of news outlets

Political bias is an inescapable characteristic in news and media reporting, and understanding what political biases people are exposed to…

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Behind The Scenes: Machine Translation Of Belarusian, Iranian, Russian and Ukrainian Channels Resumes

We are excited to announce today that the final stage in our television news processing pipeline has resumed: we are…

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Using Gemini 2.5 As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: Summarizing Trends From A Day Of Global Tariff & Trade War News

Continuing our series in persona-based news recommenders, today we're going to provide an end-to-end workflow that begins with downloading the…

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Tracking Global Media Attention To Tariffs, Trade Wars, Inflation and Stagflation

The timeline below shows intensity of worldwide media coverage mentioning tariffs and trade wars:   Inflation mentions peaked in late…

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Next Month: Google I/O

We'll be at Google I/O next month and look forward to talking, drop us a line if you'll be there!

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Winning Minds, Not Votes: What the 2025 Canadian Election Teaches Us About #Narrative Leadership

AKAS analysis of 285,000 Canadian online news articles from the The GDELT Project News database across the 2021 and 2025…

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At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: 19 Billion Seconds & 294 Billion Words In 1.8 Petabytes Of OCR JSON From 6 Quadrillion Pixels

We are tremendously excited to announce today that we have completed processing of the GCP Cloud Vision API OCR results…

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Comparing Google Translate NMT Vs LLM Vs Gemini Vs ChatGPT For Translating Global Television News

The Television News Archive's quarter century of global television news may span as many as 150 languages (according to automated…

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At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Early Statistics From 2% Of Shows

While we have OCR'd almost the totality of the TV News Archive through GCP's Cloud Vision AI API, those OCR…

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What I Learned At Google's Cloud Next 25

I was in Las Vegas two weeks ago for Google's Cloud Next 25. What few people realize about Next is…

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Using Gemini 2.5 Pro As A Persona-Based News Recommender Service: A US Government Policy Analyst Focused On China's Economy

Following our work yesterday using Gemini to create a persona-based news recommender service, let's try an even more powerful model:…