source-notes

Politics

• The U.S. political cluster was split into birthright citizenship, birth tourism, transgender athletes, financial disclosure, and a pre-midterm party convention.
• The financial-disclosure item was taken from a summary article backed by the public filing, so the money figures stay tied to the published numbers.
• Image selection favored the lead image from each article page so the cards stay anchored to the same event framing.

Economy

• One Guardian live update supplied the rate, oil, retail, and bank-rebranding items, which made the day feel more like a policy-and-prices cluster than isolated headlines.
• Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery EU approval was important but kept as a reserve candidate because the live macro and UK retail items better represented the day’s pulse.
• Oil and rates were described cautiously because the market reaction can change quickly with any new Middle East headline.

Technology

• AI was summarized through Anthropic export relief, Apple’s earlier security updates, the U.K. app-store duopoly push, and compute-capacity pressure on Meta and Google.
• The Meta/Google compute story was cautious because it came through secondary reporting rather than a first-party announcement.
• Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro delay was treated as a fallback candidate because it overlapped with the compute-scarcity story.

Selection Notes

• I favored sources with stable article pages and image URLs over thinner social posts or unattributed summaries.
• Paramount/WBD was kept out of the main economy five even though it had a solid source page and image, because the live UK macro cluster was more representative.
• The oil topic was kept even with a less direct image match because it remains one of the key market-sensitive developments in the 24-48 hour window.