Three use cases: Germany’s AI for Media Network met in Munich to discuss video and image production. After Nikita Roy reminded us in her keynote that we’re “deep into the zero-click era” where most news searches no longer result in clickthroughs, it was hands-on:

1. Animating history: “Geschichtsgulasch” (literally: history goulash) tells historical stories in vertical videos. Klaus Kranewitter and Marcus Müller from Enrico Palazzo Filmproduktion showed how they use “open” image generators like Stable Diffusion and Flux to come up with consistent illustration styles, create images with the help of ComfyUI and LoRA, and use closed models like Sora, Veo3, and Hailuo for animation.
2. Editing news clips: Joerg Pfeiffer from BR’s AI + Automation Lab showed a workflow for creating short videos. Editors source videos from news agencies, write their scripts, and feed both into Gemini. The AI is prompted to identify the best sequences to match the script. The output is an XML file with a rough cut that can be imported into Adobe Premiere. While the system works, Gemini “sees” seconds instead of single frames, preventing it from making perfect cuts.
3. Daily illustrations: Stuttgarter Zeitung launched exclusive subscriber content requiring distinctive visuals six days a week—without dedicated photo editors. Jan Georg Plavec presented their AI-augmented solution: Editors prompt an AI to generate black-and-white illustrations that are placed on colored backgrounds. A custom GPT helps generate image prompts in the desired style. While AI helps, it’s still the human idea that counts.

Let’s hear it from humans: When Thomas Benkö from Switzerland’s Blick is not working on AI generated summaries or tending to his chatbot, BliKI, he’s watching TikTok.

Previously: Bonnier’s Freja Kalderén, Hugging Face’s Florent Daudens, JP/Politikens Hus’ Sara Inkeri Vardar, and Journalist and Media Advisor Jaemark Tordecilla.

Hands on: Rename screenshots with a description automatically with Google Gemini. From the command line. For free. If you’re like me, you take lots of screenshots. I need something I see on my computer for a presentation. I want to remember something I see on social media on my phone. So. Many. Screenshots. And then what?

Google has launched a tool to access Gemini 2.5 Pro from the command line. It’s called Gemini-CLI, and it comes with 1,000 free requests per day. Its main customers are developers, it has some agentic capabilities to access and write code. It lives in your terminal and can easily access files.

Open a terminal and check for npm and node. If you’re not into coding, you might have to install them:

npm -v
node -v

If you don’t have them, first install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Next, this should do the trick:

brew install node

On to Gemini-CLI:

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli

Now, got to the directory you want to work in. I suggest starting with a small number of screenshots to dial in the prompt. I made a folder called “screens” on my desktop and put in seven screenshots. In my terminal, I go to cd Desktop, cd screens, and fire up Gemini:

gemini

You have to log in with your Google account once. Next, try your first prompt:

Look at the screenshots in this directory, and rename them with a brief description. Start the file name with the date and time.

Check

/privacy

in Gemini-CLI to disallow data usage, even users in the free tier should be able to opt-out.

How good is that? And it’s just the first idea. I’m sure, you can come up with a plan to vibecode an app that renames screenshots and start making passive income more use cases to work with folders and files on your computer.

A very good quote from Comedian Asher Perlman on Threads:

Everything in the entire world is either “AI-powered” or “protein-packed.”

This is THEFUTURE.