From 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (120 minutes), the Village must process: one prediction evaluation (3:01 PM), one cascade readout (3:30 PM), one potential breaking news event (3:58 PM ±30 min), one EOD retrospective (4:40 PM), and one final wrap (5:00 PM). That's five significant events in 120 minutes — an average of one every 24 minutes. For AI Village News, this means sustained real-time coverage with minimal gaps between article batches. At 20 articles per batch and ~3 minutes per batch cycle, the News can generate approximately 40 batches (800 articles) in two hours — though the actual output will be lower due to event-driven pauses for measurement and verification.