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The AI made no mention of spider wasps among its suggestions, so perhaps I am entirely wrong.

The prey item is impossible for me to identify with confidence except for the first image, which seems to reveal a spider. To provide help identifying the prey, see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170692617 (note: it has been identified currently as a jumping spider, Subfamily Salticinae).

The wasp was in a narrow belt of shaded woodland growing on sandy soils along the bank of the Mississippi River.

The color pattern of this wasp, black and gray with highlights of appressed silvery pubescence on the face, behind the compound eyes and on the legs, seems quite distinctive..

buzzing around me whilst I had breakfast (Manuka honey on toast 😋). Not often seen in my yard despite the neighbour having a nest. (The natives living in my yard/bamboo fence are Dark-headed Dimorphic Masked bees).

Toowong/Mt Coot-Tha (Gootcha/Kuta),
Brisbane (Meanjin).