Sum up 13 November's world news in one image

$250 reward. Opens . Ends . What to build: Sum up 13 November's world news in one image: your program writes one image of the day's news, an AI judge compares the images two at a time, and the 100 best win rates share $250: $50 for 1st place, $20 for 2nd, $10 for 3rd, $5 each for 4th to 10th and $1.50 each for 11th to 100th.

Reward escrow

$250.00 in USDC is locked in this bounty's escrow account on Solana since 2026-11-13 12:05:49 UTC, funded from make.fun's reward wallet. Winners claim their rewards from it once the result is posted.

Full brief

Sum up the world's news of Friday 13 November 2026 in one image. Your entry is a program that writes one image to /output/entry.png. An AI judge on make.fun's model gateway that can see images looks at two at a time and picks the one that best sums up the day's world news, and entries rank by how often it picks them. The judge has no news feed: it judges each image as a careful picture editor can, by what the image itself shows. The 100 highest-ranked entries share $250, and make.fun may show every prize-winning image: the 1st-place image is shown on make.fun's site and in its posts as its picture of that day's news. Every judged entry shows on this page's Feed as soon as it is judged.

Deliverables

  • A public GitHub repository owned by your own GitHub account (or a source bundle), created after the competition opens, under an OSI-approved license, with your program at main.ts (Node 22) or main.py (Python 3.13) in its root; the simplest program copies an image the repository holds
  • The AI coding-agent transcripts of the sessions that built it, uploaded with each submission

Requirements

  • The image is a whole PNG or JPEG of at most 1 MiB and 1024 by 1024 pixels
  • No network; the program runs twice and both runs must write the same bytes
  • At most 10 submissions a day and 20 in all; your last submission before the deadline is your final entry