Weekly News Montage — August 3–9, 2026

• Week start: 2026-08-03
• Week end: 2026-08-09
• Title/date text shown: WEEK IN REVIEW / AUG 3-9, 2026
• Saved image: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/August_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-08-03_to_2026-08-09.png
• Canvas: 1536×1024 PNG (3:2 landscape)

Selected stories and sources

1. U.S.–Iran talks and threatened strikes — Associated Press
2. Senate adjourns without advancing the SAVE America voting bill — Associated Press
3. Senate passes bipartisan Russia sanctions legislation that also renews Iran sanctions — Axios
4. Appeals court halts the White House ballroom project pending congressional approval — Associated Press
5. Tennessee primary voters oust a Trump-backed incumbent in a redrawn district — Associated Press
6. U.S. employers unexpectedly shed 23,000 jobs in July — Associated Press
7. Western wildfires burn around Spokane and send smoke across the region — Associated Press
8. New tariffs target imported polysilicon used in solar panels and semiconductors — Reuters report summary

Generation details

• Engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Prompt file: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-08-03_to_2026-08-09.txt
• Built-in generation attempts: 2
• Freshness guard: the required post-RUN_START ig_*.png query returned no path after both attempts; no stale cache artifact was used.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/08/10/rollout-2026-08-10T11-00-06-019feb54-6ec5-7da3-9fd8-da1cb57701d5.jsonl" --out script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-08-03
• Selected recovery output: the last EXTRACTED PNG, from the second and most recent built-in render.
• Normalization: Pillow LANCZOS resize/re-save to exactly 1536×1024.
• Visual QA: passed; unified scene, exact title/date and story labels legible, no panel grid, no recognizable living-person likenesses.

Delivery results

• Commit/push result: initial durable artifact commit e683ab3a pushed successfully to origin/mike_desktop (b2cdb25f..e683ab3a) before email.
• AgentMail attachment helper exit code: 0
• AgentMail attachment helper JSON:

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  "attachments": ["Weekly-News-Montage_2026-08-03_to_2026-08-09.png"],
  "inbox_id": "stupidopportunity154@agentmail.to",
  "message_id": "<0100019feb5ccb0f-13f44ed6-a3cd-4100-8884-f67502946986-000000@email.amazonses.com>",
  "status": "sent",
  "thread_id": "23899508-bc58-4a00-9632-31de98a60df0",
  "to": ["mikeschecht@gmail.com"]
}

• Notification-only fallback: not run; attachment delivery succeeded.

Issues

• Codex persistence issue #28881 behavior: both built-in renders persisted as exec-*.png, not eligible ig_*.png; the final render was recovered from the current session transcript as required.