Daily News Collage 9 24 26

Selected stories

1. U.S. and China met in Washington amid trade, AI, and Iran tensions, with the countries extending their trade truce. Caption: U.S.-CHINA TRADE TRUCE. Source: Associated Press
2. The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a resolution that would have curtailed the president's Iran war powers. Caption: SENATE REJECTS IRAN WAR LIMITS. Source: Reuters
3. A federal judge ordered the White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, and their reporters returned. Caption: PRESS PASSES RESTORED. Source: Associated Press
4. Hawaii prepared for potentially catastrophic flooding as Hurricane Nolo approached. Caption: HAWAII BRACES FOR NOLO. Source: Associated Press
5. Meta unveiled the pocket-sized Muse Charm AI device. Caption: META UNVEILS MUSE CHARM. Source: Reuters
6. The California Supreme Court ordered a Riverside County sheriff to return roughly 650,000 seized ballots. Caption: 650,000 BALLOTS MUST RETURN. Source: Associated Press

Generation and delivery

• The exact generation prompt was saved to script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/gemini-prompt_9-24-26.txt.
• The required post-RUN_START ig_*.png cache search returned no path after the initial render and one retry. Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/09/25/rollout-2026-09-25T13-30-08-01a0d8c2-503b-7d41-a05e-eb80efdf0294.jsonl" --out script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/extracted_9-24-26.
• The last extracted render was copied to the dated image path and verified as a 1024×1536 RGB PNG (2,787,343 bytes). No resize was needed.
• Visual QA passed: six square panels, correct readable captions, correct timestamp, consistent detailed editorial style, no panel numbering, and no recognizable real-person likenesses.
• Commit/push result: Initial durable artifact commit 497ee27d pushed successfully to origin/mike_desktop before email delivery.
• AgentMail email result: Attachment send succeeded. Helper JSON: {"attachments":["Daily-News-Collage_9-24-26.png"],"attempts":[{"id":"01a0d8c6-d67b-78b1-9db3-2a609ffaca55","provider":"resend","status":"sent"}],"from":"AI Automation Library <fleet@send.mikesailab.com>","id":"01a0d8c6-d67b-78b1-9db3-2a609ffaca55","inbox_id":"","message_id":"01a0d8c6-d67b-78b1-9db3-2a609ffaca55","provider":"resend","status":"sent","thread_id":"","to":["mikeschecht@gmail.com"]}
• Issues: Built-in generation did not create a post-RUN_START ig_*.png; session-transcript recovery succeeded, so Gemini fallback was not used.