Daily News Collage 8 12 26

Selected stories and sources

1. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she will leave the administration at the end of August. Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-press-secretary-leavitt-dc3753a957b05ef554bf277221d9cf46
2. David Crowley's narrow Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary win set up the general-election contest against Trump-backed Tom Tiffany. Source: https://apnews.com/article/david-crowley-wisconsin-governor-democrat-socialist-b23fe75b1fb54f5c0c27379ed0693319
3. The Los Angeles Lakers were reported sold to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger in a $12.5 billion deal. Source: https://apnews.com/article/lakers-sale-kushner-iger-12-billion-d5058bb845d87873e23e270a6bb9be9f
4. A study of the Artemis I mission's radiation vest found it can reduce astronauts' solar-storm exposure. Source: https://apnews.com/article/nasa-artemis-moon-radiation-astronauts-13e453c3e0502c0b0b3786b7fbc1a5cd
5. A jury found Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social-media addiction trial. Source: https://apnews.com/article/social-media-addiction-trial-la-5e54075023d837ccdc76c4ca512e925d
6. Media groups sued to stop Trump Media from charging traders for early access to presidential policy posts. Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-lawsuit-truth-social-access-wall-street-traders-7f057fd1dba31dd4e357c8bf635ee009

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• Final engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Generation: Two built-in attempts rendered inline after RUN_START 1786627806, but the required freshness search for post-RUN_START ig_*.png files returned no path both times (Codex issue #28881). Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/08/13/rollout-2026-08-13T13-30-07-019ffb50-d889-7e61-8ae5-d5f3a316a902.jsonl" --out script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/extracted_8-12-26. The last extracted render was copied and verified as a 2,872,919-byte RGB PNG at exactly 1024×1536; no resize was needed.
• Visual check: Six bordered square panels, all six required captions, and the timestamp are present and legible; figures are generic and do not depict recognizable real-person likenesses. The retained second render includes incidental in-world labels/logos beyond the requested captions despite the prompt; it was accepted after the maximum two built-in attempts.
• Commit/push result: The dated PNG and metadata were committed as 0b18377c with message Add daily news collage for 2026-08-12 and pushed successfully to origin/mike_desktop before email delivery.
• AgentMail result: Attachment delivery succeeded (status: sent) to mikeschecht@gmail.com; message ID <0100019ffb57b15c-85ef8c26-0838-4705-a22e-a2ee7fe99650-000000@email.amazonses.com>, thread ID 750ad8ae-7766-4811-9ca9-23ef89c27075. Notification-only fallback was not needed.
• Issues: Built-in persistence bug required transcript recovery. Gemini fallback was not used.