Daily News Collage 9 23 26

Selected stories

1. U.S.-China state visit: President Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews for a state visit. Caption: U.S.-CHINA STATE VISIT. Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/23/trump-xi-china-state-visit-joint-base-andrews
2. U.S.-Iran war talks: U.S. and Iranian officials met around the U.N. General Assembly to discuss ending the war and conditions around the Strait of Hormuz. Caption: U.S.-IRAN WAR TALKS. Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/unga-iran-us-trump-war
3. White House press-access case: A federal judge heard the challenge to the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico but did not immediately rule. Caption: PRESS ACCESS BAN IN COURT. Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/23/white-house-press-ban-access
4. Wall Street selloff: U.S. stocks fell as Treasury yields and oil prices climbed and strong business-activity data renewed inflation and rate-hike concerns. Caption: STOCKS FALL AS YIELDS RISE. Source: https://www.local10.com/news/2026/09/23/us-stocks-slip-after-bond-yields-jump-on-higher-oil-prices-and-a-strong-economic-report/
5. AI safety at the U.N.: Leaders of major AI organizations urged global safeguards for increasingly autonomous systems at a U.N. Security Council meeting. Caption: AI LEADERS URGE GLOBAL SAFEGUARDS. Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/23/ai-leaders-un-security-council-global-safeguards
6. FBI data-theft investigation: The FBI investigated hackers' claims of a massive data theft, a leading U.S. technology story in the September 23 news cycle. Caption: FBI PROBES MASS DATA THEFT. Source: https://www.axios.com/top/2026/09/23

Generation details

• The exact generation prompt was saved at script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/gemini-prompt_9-23-26.txt for reproducibility and fallback reuse.
• Two built-in gpt-image renders were generated after RUN_START epoch 1790256607.
• The required freshness lookup for post-RUN_START ig_*.png files returned no result after both attempts. No older shared-cache file was used.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/09/24/rollout-2026-09-24T13-30-08-01a0d39b-f527-71b3-ab56-26e2cac76933.jsonl" --out script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/extracted_9-23-26
• The last extracted render was copied to the dated path and verified as a genuine PNG. It was already exactly 1024 × 1536, so no resize was needed.
• Visual review passed: six square panels, six correctly spelled contextual captions, correct timestamp, no panel numbering, consistent detailed editorial style, and no recognizable real-person likenesses.
• Gemini fallback was not used.

Delivery and publish

• Commit/push result: Initial artifact commit 941a811a (Add daily news collage for 2026-09-23) pushed successfully to origin/mike_desktop; the delivery-result metadata update was committed and pushed afterward.
• AgentMail email result: Attachment delivery succeeded after the initial push. Helper JSON: {"attachments":["Daily-News-Collage_9-23-26.png"],"attempts":[{"id":"01a0d3a2-f3cd-774a-8b83-b1b508a6209c","provider":"resend","status":"sent"}],"from":"AI Automation Library <fleet@send.mikesailab.com>","id":"01a0d3a2-f3cd-774a-8b83-b1b508a6209c","inbox_id":"","message_id":"01a0d3a2-f3cd-774a-8b83-b1b508a6209c","provider":"resend","status":"sent","thread_id":"","to":["mikeschecht@gmail.com"]}
• Issues: Built-in image generation persisted files under non-ig_*.png names, so the required freshness lookup was empty and transcript recovery was used successfully. No image-quality issues were observed.