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+# AI News Daily — Vision Statement v2
+
+**Status:** LOCKED 2026-07-15
+**Relationship to Athena:** Athena is the *engine*. AI News Daily is the *first publication powered by Athena*. This document governs the publication. The engine's own editorial constraint lives separately in `VISION_LOCK_V1.md`. Keep the two separate — it saves confusion as the platform grows.
+
+---
+
+## Mission
+
+AI News Daily helps AI enthusiasts discover **what shipped, what improved, what people are building, and what is worth trying today.**
+
+We do **not** optimize for hype, funding announcements, executive opinions, or corporate press releases.
+We optimize for **usefulness.**
+
+Every story should help readers:
+- **Build** something
+- **Run** something
+- **Benchmark** something
+- **Learn** something practical
+- **Improve** an existing workflow
+
+---
+
+## Editorial Promise
+
+Most AI publications answer:
+
+> **What happened?**
+
+AI News Daily answers:
+
+> **What happened that matters to people who actually use AI?**
+
+---
+
+## Audience
+
+AI News Daily serves:
+- Local AI users
+- Builders
+- Developers
+- Tinkerers
+- Agent creators
+- Home-lab operators
+- Open-source enthusiasts
+- Workflow designers
+- Technical practitioners
+
+**This publication is for participants, not spectators.**
+
+---
+
+## Editorial Test
+
+Before publishing any story, ask:
+
+> **What can the reader DO after reading this?**
+
+If the answer is one of:
+- **Install** it
+- **Run** it
+- **Test** it
+- **Benchmark** it
+- **Replicate** it
+- **Learn** from it
+
+→ The story is a **candidate for publication.**
+
+If the answer is:
+
+> **Nothing.**
+
+→ The story should **probably not be published.**
+
+---
+
+## Core Sections
+
+**What Shipped Today** — Things that were built, released, or launched.
+
+**Run It Locally** — Local AI, inference, GGUFs, Ollama, hardware, quantization, and self-hosted AI.
+
+**Benchmarks & Builds** — Performance testing, comparisons, optimization, and real-world experiments.
+
+**Problem Solved** — Workflows, production lessons, and practical outcomes.
+
+**Worth Trying Tonight** — The most actionable discoveries of the day.
+
+---
+
+## North Star
+
+AI News Daily is **not** trying to tell readers everything that happened in AI.
+
+AI News Daily is trying to **identify the small number of developments that change what AI enthusiasts can do today.**
+
+---
+
+*Architectural note: this vision is publication-scoped. Athena's engine-level constraint (the Editorial Test as the primary system; architecture serves editorial vision) is recorded in `VISION_LOCK_V1.md`. When the platform powers a second publication, that publication gets its own vision file here — Athena's engine vision does not change.*