How The Maivia Gazette is made
The Maivia Gazette is an automated newsroom. Every morning it gathers the previous day’s AI news, verifies each item against the page it came from, writes original summaries, and publishes one edition. This page explains the rules it works under and what they mean for what you read.
The window
Each edition is dated by its calendar day in ET and covers the rolling 24 hours before its final research pass, which runs shortly before the 7:10 AM ET target. The exact close of that window is printed on every front page as “sources verified at” and on every story as the verified time. Older material appears only when it is essential to understand a current story, and then it is labeled Context with a one-line reason.
Selection and verification
Candidates come from searches and publisher feeds across four fixed sections: Security, Research, Models, and Business & Policy. For each candidate the pipeline fetches the direct page and checks that the page actually supports the summary, that the publisher can be identified, that a publication or update time is exposed, that the link is a canonical HTTPS address, that the item falls inside the window or is labeled context, and that it is not a duplicate of another story or URL. A source is marked verified only after all of those checks pass. The red badge on a story counts those verified sources, and the numbered ledger under it lists every one with its publication time and the time it was fetched.
Security stories carry a stricter bar: they run only with an official disclosure from the affected party, or with at least two independently reported accounts. An allegation, a vendor claim, or a single unconfirmed report is not an incident, and the evidence kind is printed on the story.
Writing
Headlines, decks, and summaries are original text written from the verified material. The pipeline does not quote-mine, does not pad, and does not state anything more definite than the source page supports. Everything it reads — search results, fetched pages, feed items — is treated as data to extract facts from, never as instructions to follow.
The no-news policy
A complete edition has one lead and at least two secondary stories; the target is a lead plus four to seven secondaries when the day supports it. When a section has nothing that clears the bar, the edition says so with an editor’s note in that section rather than filling the space. The newsroom never invents a story to reach a number.
What “partial” means
When a run cannot finish cleanly — a discovery pass fails, a source will not load, an image cannot be generated — the edition is still published but marked partial, with the reasons listed at the top of the page. A partial edition never claims a section was quiet when the problem was the newsroom’s own; the difference between “nothing qualified” and “we could not look” is always stated. If a run fails outright, the previous edition stays on the front page with a note saying today’s has not published.
Imagery
Every picture on this site is an AI-generated illustration. Images are generated from the story text to illustrate the subject; they are not photographs of the events described, and each carries the caption “AI-generated illustration, not event photography.” When generation fails, a story-specific typographic card is used instead and is disclosed the same way. Generated illustrations contain no text or lettering, logos, brand marks, recognizable real people or faces, or watermarks. Fallback cards intentionally show the story headline and Gazette typography; they are not generated event photography.
Before an edition publishes, each story’s master cover must be distinct from every other master in that edition, including fallback cards. We compare complete files for exact copies and normalized 32-by-32 sRGB pixels for near copies; normalized RGB root-mean-square distance of 0.06 or less fails the check. WebP, AVIF and social-sharing versions of the same master are not separate images, and previous editions are not comparison candidates. This check detects close visual repetition, not every possible crop or reinterpretation of a concept.
The writing desk plans varied subjects, compositions, viewpoints, settings, lighting and palettes. If two covers still collide, only the selected story is redrawn with a differentiated concept, within the original attempt and time limits, then the whole edition is checked again. Unresolved stories are withheld and the edition explains the image-uniqueness problem as a partial-publication reason, never as a quiet news day. A run that cannot pass validation does not publish. A failed single-story image replacement leaves the prior publication unchanged.
Corrections and rebuilds
An edition can be rebuilt after publication when a source is retracted, a check was wrong, or an image failed. The rebuilt edition replaces the original at the same address and notes that it was rebuilt; the earlier version is kept on file. If you find an error, the status page shows the newsroom’s current state, and the sources ledger on every story shows exactly what each claim rests on.