MSNBC's "Morning Joe" reacted to the networks upcoming name change, "My Source News Opinion World," or MS NOW, on Monday. But don't shed a tear (not that you would, anyway), it's turning into MS NOW. Or, as the New York Times put it, "Goodbye, MSNBC. The far-left network lost its tie to the newsy term "NBC" and looks more like some feminist retread site. Or, as MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler put it, "While our name will be changing, who we are and what we do will not." So, maybe my viewership assessment is correct. Sure, the ship might have made a career of hitting icebergs, but it's got a new name. The fallout from the change was swift. The Times even took a swipe with the follow-up headline: "MSNBC's Rebrand Invites Bemusement and Ridicule." The name switch reflects marketing nonsense as part of the corporate split. It also eliminates the long-standing comparison to MSDNC. The rationalization for the new name is: "My Source for News, Opinion, and the World." CNBC is going to keep its name, according to the Wall Street Journal, but the initials mean something else – "Consumer News and Business Channel," another marketing nuance. The new company will include, "NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel" along with a few other properties, including the formerly useful Rotten Tomatoes movie site. Nobody sane wants MSNBC/MS NOW connected in any way to NBC. It's been a corporate embarrassment for years. They're OK with it looking like the rational folks at CNBC are still connected, but the lunacy of MSNBC gets rebranded. It removes the stain for NBC. The more things change, the more they remain the same. This is the same network where they repeatedly compare President Donald Trump to monsters like Hitler and Stalin. Hosts regularly throw around charges of dictatorship like we are living in 1930s Germany – although somehow they are allowed to say it. Host Tiffany Cross recently claimed the government was grabbing people and "transporting them to concentration camps." And the face of the franchise, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, told viewers, "We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country." Remember, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough made the most-embarrassing quote of the entire failed Joe Biden presidency: "I've said it for years now, he's cogent.

'Gutfeld!' panelists react to the media claiming President Biden videos are deepfakes. Welcome to the hoax hoax. Where in the run-up to the election our media circles the wagons around a dithering Joe Biden to convince us that what we see with our own eyes isn't real. This year's hoax hoax even comes with a whole new buzz term – "cheap fake." A word that allows the left to confuse people with deep fake without actually lying.

This paper examines the diffusion of media slant, specifically how partisan content from national cable news affects local newspapers in the U.S., 2005-2008. We use a text-based measure of cable news slant trained on content from Fox News Channel (FNC), CNN, and MSNBC to analyze how local newspapers adopt FNC's slant over CNN/MSNBC's. Our findings show that local news becomes more similar to FNC content in response to an exogenous increase in local FNC viewership. This shift is not limited to borrowing from cable news, but rather, local newspapers' own content changes. Further, cable TV slant polarizes local news content.

WARNING--Graphic footage: Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas has the latest on the investigation from Brooklyn, New York, on'Special Report.' New York City may be rolling out new technology and periodic bag checks to prevent future terrorist attacks, according to the mayor. New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday about the previous day's terror attack on the city's subway system. The mayor touched on the possibility of new technology on public transportation to prevent similar acts in the future. "With the gun detection devices – oftentimes when people hear of'metal detectors,' they immediately think of the airport model," Adams said.

A new AI-powered tool can show you how much screen time different public figures and topics are getting on TV. Stanford University researchers created the system to increase transparency around editorial decisions, by analyzing who's getting coverage and what they're talking about. "By letting researchers, journalists, and the public quantitatively measure who and what is in the news, the tool can help identify biases and trends in cable TV news coverage," said project leader Maneesh Agrawala. Normally, monitoring organizations and newsrooms rely on painstaking manual counting to find out who and what's getting screen time. But the Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer uses computer vision to calculates this automatically. The AI then shows what people are discussing by synchronizing the video with transcripts of their speech.

Television news coverage brings to mind images of newsreaders in studios, reporters in the field, previously recorded footage and rapid-fire barrages of vivid advertising imagery. This raises the question of just how long a typical "shot" lasts and whether there are substantial differences between television news stations. Using the "Shot Change" detection feature of Google's Video AI platform to analyze a week of television news, what new insights could we learn about the speed at which television news narratives move? Google's Video AI API brings the company's image analysis algorithms to the world of video. While in the past videos had to be split into frames and analyzed as still images, the Video AI API enables videos to be analyzed natively, enabling time-based analysis like detecting shot changes.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at a taped television event hosted by MSNBC and The Verge's sister site Recode, said artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things that humanity is working on right now and compared it to basic utilities in terms of its importance. Speaking to Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Ari Melber, Pichai said AI is "one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It's more profound than, I don't know, electricity or fire," adding that people learned to harness fire for the benefits of humanity, but also needed to overcome its downsides, too. Pichai also said that AI could be used to help solve climate change issues, or to cure cancer. The remarks from the chief executive of Google, which is largely perceived as one of the world leaders in the development of artificial intelligence, came after Swisher asked repeatedly about AI's impact on jobs and observed that Silicon Valley tends to have a "shiny happy future" outlook about disruptive technologies.

Make no mistake about how seriously Google is taking artificial intelligence. "AI is one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It's more profound than, I don't know, electricity or fire," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on Friday as part of a new show hosted by MSNBC's Ari Melber and Recode's Kara Swisher. "Fire's pretty good," Swisher said. "But it kills people, too. They learn to harness fire for the benefits of humanity, but we have to overcome its downsides, too," he said.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at a taped television event hosted by MSNBC and The Verge's sister site Recode, said artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things that humanity is working on right now and compared it to basic utilities in terms of its importance. Speaking to Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Ari Melber, Pichai said AI is "one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It's more profound than, I don't know, electricity or fire," adding that people learned to harness fire for the benefits of humanity, but also needed to overcome its downsides, too. Pichai also said that AI could be used to help solve climate change issues, or to cure cancer. The remarks from the chief executive of Google, which is largely perceived as one of the world leaders in the development of artificial intelligence, came after Swisher asked repeatedly about AI's impact on jobs and observed that Silicon Valley tends to have a "shiny happy future" outlook about disruptive technologies.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at a taped television event hosted by MSNBC and The Verge's sister site Recode, said artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things that humanity is working on right now and compared it to basic utilities in terms of its importance. Speaking to Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Ari Melber, Pichai said AI is "one of the most important things that humanity is working on. It's more profound than, I don't know, electricity or fire," adding that people learned to harness fire for the benefits of humanity but also needed to overcome its downsides, too. Pichai also said that AI could be used to help solve climate change issues, or to cure cancer. The remarks from the chief executive of Google, which is largely perceived as one of the world leaders in the development of artificial intelligence, came after Swisher asked repeatedly about AI's impact on jobs and observed that Silicon Valley tends to have a "shiny happy future" outlook about disruptive technologies.