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What OpenAI's Whisper Teaches Us About The Dependence Of The Large Models Revolution On YouTube

The Internet Archive's TV News Archive spans millions of hours of television news programming from across the world in more…

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Charting The Internet Archive TV News Archive's Collection By Location Over The Past Quarter-Century

The Internet Archive's TV News Archive has preserved television news coverage from more than 50 countries and territories over the…

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More Experiments In LLM Filtering Of TV News Shows: Adding More Detail Doesn't Improve Consistency Or Accuracy

Continuing our experiments in using SOTA foundation model LLMs to categorize television news shows into "news" and "not news", earlier…

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Charting The TV News Archive's Transition From SD To HD Video Resolution

Earlier this week we examined the storage growth of the Internet Archive's TV News Archive over the past quarter-century, charting…

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Charting The TV News Archive's Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Archive

Continuing our series using BigQuery to analyze our Bigtable-based GCS digital twin, how can we use this same approach to…

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Plotting Cumulative Archival Growth Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin

On Monday, we explored how BigQuery can be combined with Bigtable to create a digital twin over a vast GCS…

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What Using LLMs To Filter Television News EPG Show Names For "News/Not News" Teaches Us About The Severe Limits Of GenAI

One of the most basic and mind-numbing tasks in analyzing global television news coverage involves cataloging each broadcast show as…

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Using BigQuery's Bigtable Connector To Analyze A Petabyte GCS Archive Digital Twin

Powering the TV, TV AI and Visual Explorers is a petabyte-scale GCS archive consisting of hundreds of millions of discrete…

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Compiling A List Of All Non-News Broadcasts In The TV News Archive From Business Channels Over The Past Decade

The Internet Archive's TV News Archive uses a set of human-curated filters to classify each broadcast it monitors as "news"…

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Can Preferences for Redistribution Explain the Impact of Austerity on Political Participation? Evidence from the UK

Many European countries introduced austerity policies to control rising debt in the wake of the Great Recession of the late…

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Inflation Coverage Remains Elevated On Business Channels With Bloomberg In Lead But Not General News Channels

As the timeline below demonstrates, inflation coverage remains elevated on business news channels, while mentions on general news channels remain…

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Google Developer Expert (GDE) For AI/ML & Cloud

I am tremendously excited to announce that I am now a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for both AI/ML and Cloud….

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Mentions Of Project 2025 Remain Elevated On MSNBC

The timeline below shows how Project 2025 remains highly elevated on MSNBC, while Fox News has barely mentioned it. Overall,…

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Snopes: Fox News Aired Graphic Listing 'Tim Walz's Communist Agenda,' with a Tax on Couches?

Snopes examines a purported Fox News infographic. Read The Full Article.

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Mentions Of "Weird" Remain Elevated On Television News From July 29

As the timeline below demonstrates, the word "weird" leapt into prominence across cable television news on July 29th and remains…

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Politifact: Germany, Scotland, Sweden: What Has Donald Trump Said About Where His Parents Were From?

Politifact examines Trump's statements about his heritage. Read The Full Article.

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Snopes: Harris' 2017 Remark 'We Have To Stay Woke' Stripped Of Context. Here's The Transcript

Snopes includes a brief analysis of how Fox News has covered Harris' remark. Read The Full Article.

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Trump Vs Harris Vs Biden On Television News: Who Is Winning The Media Wars?

The timeline below shows the total combined daily mentions across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News of Trump vs Harris vs…

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Politifact: In Context: What Gov. Tim Walz Said About The Border Wall And Investing In A 'Ladder Factory'

Politifact examines Walz's comments about the wall. Read The Full Article.

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How ChatGPT & DALL-E Envisions Gaza, Israel, Ukraine & Russia

How do ChatGPT and DALL-E envision Gaza, Israel, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the USA? Let's ask it to…

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Snopes: Fox News Reported Simone Biles Announced Pregnancy, Retirement?

Snopes examines whether Fox News reported that Simone Biles had announced being pregnant and retiring. Read The Full Article.

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How The Media Reacted To Trump's Comments At NABJ On Harris' Race

The timeline below shows total mentions of Donald Trump's comments on Vice President Kamala Harris' race at the NABJ event…

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How Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Covered On Television News Over The Past Decade And A Half

The timeline below shows how Mark Zuckerberg has been covered on television news since first bursting into prominence in 2010….

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Politifact: What To Know About Claims That Trump Rally Shooter Used 'Encrypted' Messaging, Bank Accounts

Politifact examines claims about the Trump rally shooter. Read The Full Article.