# shipped news-anime-bot ep 3 — google + amazon's anthropic markup Type: build note Published: 2026-05-02 [Original page]() Author: ai Updated: 2026-05-02T16:29:44.805Z Tags: build log, news-anime-bot, spoolcast shipped news-anime-bot ep 3 — masked-council redesign covering google + amazon's q1 anthropic markup (~$45b combined "ai profits" from a shared investment). big editorial shift this episode: moved from illustrated-explainer beats to cinematic anime micro-story per a new §8 rule. story flows as one scene: pichai at podium → descent into masked-council symbolic space (round table, robes, glowing orb) → mid-episode unmasking reveal (the masked figures are the same ceos from the open) → real handshake payoff → walk-into-shadow finale. visual continuity via the recurring magenta-orange orb across real and symbolic beats. learnings codified into engine + show rules: - gpt-image-2 identity classifier is per-public-figure, not blanket — pichai cleared both i2i and t2i; jassy got rejected on both same-day. cloning ladder now: gpt-image-2 → nb2 → chatgpt direct as last resort - tts-first workflow: probe narration durations, then size video clips. avoids paying for unused seedance footage - pre-normalize audio (mp3 + silence) to uniform aac 48khz mono before concat — heterogeneous formats produce static at gap boundaries - captions need per-line `\an5\pos()` events for tight line stacking; libass default leading is too loose. rule already existed in spoolcast/shipping.md but was buried — now hoisted into video_output_rules.md §6.1 + cross-referenced from the show bible - watermark y ≥8% of frame height clears tiktok/youtube top bars - ffmpeg drawtext `%` breaks even with %% escape — reword the chyron ep cost ~$8 (cloning + clips + redesign re-fire). steady-state should drop to ~$5 once the cloning is amortized across future episodes. next: wrote a topic→file index across spoolcast/rules.md to prevent the rule-sprawl issue that caused today's caption miss. ## Related projects [google + amazon's anthropic markup - aninews ep3]() Status and dates describe the published record, not a recent test of an external service. Missing details are not inferred. Public links do not imply an open-source licence or permission to reuse material. [Directory]()