{ "note": "Alaska AI video feed manifest. Newest first. The dispatch routine in alaska-ai-weekly appends a new entry each run via scripts/publish_feed.py. id must be unique (used for dedupe + deep links).", "media_base": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/", "videos": [ { "id": "dispatch-2026-07-26-voterroll", "date": "2026-07-26", "title": "The Field That Stopped in 2019", "caption": "Alaska told about 3,500 people the state had information they may not be citizens, and 3,048 registrations went inactive. Neither the DMV record nor the naturalization certificate was wrong. They were six years apart.", "video": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/dispatch-2026-07-26-9x16.mp4", "poster": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/dispatch-2026-07-26-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/dispatch-2026-07-26-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/dispatch-2026-07-26-thumb.jpg" }, { "id": "the-one-it-didnt-hear", "date": "2026-07-25", "title": "The One It Didn't Hear", "caption": "Alaska runs a landslide detection algorithm across some 200 seismic stations, but the August 2025 Tracy Arm slide fell outside the coverage and produced no automatic detection. NSF just awarded UAF $1,772,170 to start building a forecast.", "video": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/2026-07-25-master_9x16.mp4", "poster": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/2026-07-25-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/2026-07-25-master_9x16_720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/2026-07-25-poster_thumb.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-24-box-that-waits", "date": "2026-07-24", "title": "The Box That Waits for You", "caption": "In Quinhagak, the Yup'ik-owned company Nalaquq trained local drone pilots for search and rescue and now teaches other villages. The drones can fly themselves, but the pilots who read the land are what make them work.", "video": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/ak-dispatch-2026-07-24-dispatch_9x16.mp4", "poster": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/ak-dispatch-2026-07-24-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/ak-dispatch-2026-07-24-dispatch_9x16_720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/ak-dispatch-2026-07-24-poster_thumb.jpg" }, { "id": "beluga-from-orbit-2026-07-23", "date": "2026-07-23", "title": "Counting Belugas From Orbit", "caption": "NOAA's experimental GAIA machine vision is learning to find the endangered Cook Inlet belugas, about 331 left, in satellite imagery. The honest open question is whether it can get the clear satellite passes it needs over Anchorage's crowded sky.", "video": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/beluga-orbit-2026-07-23-dispatch_master_9x16.mp4", "poster": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/beluga-orbit-2026-07-23-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/beluga-orbit-2026-07-23-dispatch_9x16_720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/media/beluga-orbit-2026-07-23-poster_thumb.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-22-checkpoint-lever", "date": "2026-07-22", "title": "The Checkpoint Lever", "caption": "The Air Force offered 4,700 acres across three Alaska bases for AI data centers. Nobody has been picked yet, and the lease is still open.", "video": "dispatch_2026-07-22_9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch_2026-07-22_poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-22-checkpoint-lever-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-22-checkpoint-lever-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-21c-ear-and-eye", "date": "2026-07-21", "title": "Ear and Eye on the Ice-White Whale", "caption": "Two NOAA-led AI systems now watch Cook Inlet's endangered belugas from two directions at once, a robot ear underwater and a robot eye in orbit. 331 belugas remain.", "video": "dispatch_2026-07-21c_9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch_2026-07-21c_poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-21c-ear-and-eye-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-21c-ear-and-eye-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-21-pen-that-wont-land", "date": "2026-07-21", "title": "The Pen That Won't Land", "caption": "Kenai Peninsula schools adopted an AI policy before the governance to back it up. The pen hovers over the signature line.", "video": "alaska-pen-that-wont-sign-916-final2-2026-07-21.mp4", "poster": "alaska-pen-that-wont-sign-poster-final2-2026-07-21.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-21-pen-that-wont-land-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-21-pen-that-wont-land-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-20b-referee-arrives", "date": "2026-07-20", "title": "The Referee Arrives", "caption": "Alaska's salmon bycatch fight meets the AI that counts the fish. NOAA's model reads trawl net-cam footage, and the Sitka Tribe runs its own AI video weir.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-20b-9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-20b-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-20b-referee-arrives-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-20b-referee-arrives-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-20-alaska-ran-the-sky", "date": "2026-07-20", "title": "Alaska Ran the Sky", "caption": "The XPRIZE Wildfire autonomous-drone finals were held at Nenana, Alaska. UAF ran the airspace while AI systems raced to detect and put out a fire with no human in the loop.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-20-vertical-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-20-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-20-alaska-ran-the-sky-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-20-alaska-ran-the-sky-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-19-gvea-turbine", "date": "2026-07-19", "title": "He Paid $50K Just to Wait", "caption": "Golden Valley Electric weighs a second naphtha turbine at North Pole as new demand, including AI, presses on the Interior grid.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-19-916.mp4", "poster": "", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-19-gvea-turbine-720.mp4" }, { "id": "2026-07-18-matsu-conveyance", "date": "2026-07-18", "title": "31 Square Miles, No Charge", "caption": "Alaska DNR's preliminary decision would convey about 19,950 acres of Mat-Su state forest to AIDEA at no charge for a data-center, rail and energy district.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-18-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-18-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-18-matsu-conveyance-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-18-matsu-conveyance-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-17-mineral-hunt", "date": "2026-07-17", "title": "The $15M Mineral Hunt", "caption": "UAF won a $15M NSF award to use AI to prospect Alaska's critical minerals.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-17-vertical.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-17-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-17-mineral-hunt-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-17-mineral-hunt-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-16-hell-no-on-the-tundra", "date": "2026-07-16", "title": "Hell No on the Tundra", "caption": "Stak Energy's proposed gigawatt AI data center near Deadhorse drew 500+ public comments, fewer than a dozen in favor. The mailbox is the real vote.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-16-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-16-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-16-hell-no-on-the-tundra-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-16-hell-no-on-the-tundra-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-14-claim-on-the-tundra", "date": "2026-07-14", "title": "The Claim on the Tundra", "caption": "A gigawatt gas-fired AI data center proposed on a square mile of North Slope state land, with cost estimates spanning a twentyfold range and no confirmed customers.", "video": "dispatch_2026-07-14_9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch_2026-07-14_poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-14-claim-on-the-tundra-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-14-claim-on-the-tundra-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-13-sorted-by-a-machine", "date": "2026-07-13", "title": "Sorted by a Machine", "caption": "An LLM screened ~1,100 federal grants and an Alaska Native Language Archive grant was among ~1,400 terminated. A court ruled it unlawful. The model did not decide, a person aimed it.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-13-vertical.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-13-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-13-sorted-by-a-machine-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-13-sorted-by-a-machine-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-12-the-fake-that-swam", "date": "2026-07-12", "title": "The Fake That Swam", "caption": "An AI-generated image claimed a beluga escaped Seward's SeaLife Center. Nearly 6 million views before the debunk, and the detector could only say 82.6 percent likely AI.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-12-thefakethatswam-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-12-thefakethatswam-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-12-the-fake-that-swam-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-12-the-fake-that-swam-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-11-the-lid", "date": "2026-07-11", "title": "The Lid", "caption": "A UAF model bias-corrects wildfire smoke forecasts for Alaska, where an inversion lid traps smoke low and the forecast paints it thin and high.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-11-thelid-9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-11-thelid-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-11-the-lid-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-11-the-lid-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-10-teaching-the-machine", "date": "2026-07-10", "title": "Teaching the Machine to See", "caption": "On Bristol Bay's Wood River, a person hand-labels thousands of sockeye to teach a drone's computer vision while the ADFG towers keep the official count.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-10-9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-10-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-10-teaching-the-machine-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-10-teaching-the-machine-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-09-the-mountain-listens", "date": "2026-07-09", "title": "The Mountain Listens", "caption": "VOISS-Net, an Alaska Volcano Observatory deep-learning model, reads a volcano's seismic and infrasound spectrograms while Great Sitkin erupts. It names the sound. A human stays on watch.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-09-volcano-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-09-volcano-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-09-the-mountain-listens-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-09-the-mountain-listens-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-08-count-from-a-dot", "date": "2026-07-08", "title": "The Count From a Dot", "caption": "A weakly-supervised model counts Alaska caribou in aerial survey photos from a single point per animal, validated on ADFG's Central Arctic census.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-08-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-08-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-08-count-from-a-dot-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-08-count-from-a-dot-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-06-launch-call", "date": "2026-07-06", "title": "The Launch Call", "caption": "ANTHC and Stanford built a decision AI for rural Alaska medevac calls, with tribal data governance at the center.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-06-launchcall-9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-06-launchcall-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-06-launch-call-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-06-launch-call-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-05-depth-model", "date": "2026-07-05", "title": "The Depth Model", "caption": "A UAF probabilistic model predicts where Chinook salmon swim in the water column, to help pollock trawlers avoid them.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-05-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-05-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-05-depth-model-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-05-depth-model-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-04-whale-spotter", "date": "2026-07-04", "title": "The Whale Spotter", "caption": "An AI eye for spotting whales in Alaska waters.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-04-whalespotter-9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-04-whalespotter-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-04-whale-spotter-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-04-whale-spotter-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-03-ten-minute-clock", "date": "2026-07-03", "title": "The Ten-Minute Clock", "caption": "At the XPRIZE Wildfire finals in Nenana, autonomous AI drone systems had ten minutes to find and suppress a controlled wildfire. No human in the loop.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-03-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-03-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-03-ten-minute-clock-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-03-ten-minute-clock-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-02-the-circuit", "date": "2026-07-02", "title": "The Circuit", "caption": "The Air Force offered 4,700 acres for AI data centers while Cook Inlet's gas squeeze leaves the Interior grid straining to feed them.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-02-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-02-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-02-the-circuit-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-02-the-circuit-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-07-01-razor-edge", "date": "2026-07-01", "title": "The Razor Edge", "caption": "An ML model pulled about 1,750 uncatalogued quakes out of a decade of Alaska seismic noise, tracing a 250 km buried plate edge under southern Alaska.", "video": "dispatch-2026-07-01-yakutat-916.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-07-01-yakutat-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-01-razor-edge-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-07-01-razor-edge-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-06-30-river-sonar", "date": "2026-06-30", "title": "The River Sonar", "caption": "Kenai River salmon counted by imaging sonar and computer vision.", "video": "dispatch-2026-06-30-riversonar-9x16.mp4", "poster": "dispatch-2026-06-30-riversonar-poster.png", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-06-30-river-sonar-720.mp4", "poster_thumb": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-06-30-river-sonar-poster.jpg" }, { "id": "2026-06-26-digital-twin", "date": "2026-06-26", "title": "The Digital Twin", "caption": "A permafrost digital twin under a road in Utqiagvik, built from physics-informed ML and fiber-optic sensing.", "video": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaska-ai-weekly/dispatch-media/dispatch-2026-06-26-9x16.mp4", "poster": "", "video_mobile": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Talonsturgill/alaskaaicarousels/media/2026-06-26-digital-twin-720.mp4" } ] }