Weekly News Montage — August 10–16, 2026

• Week start: 2026-08-10
• Week end: 2026-08-16
• Title/date text shown: WEEK IN REVIEW / AUG 10-16, 2026
• Saved image: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/August_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-08-10_to_2026-08-16.png

Selected stories and sources

1. U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% in July, the sharpest monthly decline in more than a year — Associated Press
2. July consumer inflation eased, with CPI rising 0.1% month over month and 3.4% year over year — Axios
3. AI shares helped lift Wall Street toward a record after strong technology earnings — Associated Press
4. The U.S. Navy sent the USS George Washington toward the Middle East amid continued Strait of Hormuz tensions — Associated Press
5. Two UAE-operated tankers were attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz — Associated Press
6. A partial solar eclipse was visible from parts of the United States on August 12 — Associated Press, NASA
7. NOAA reported July 2026 as the hottest month recorded in the contiguous United States — Associated Press
8. The FedEx Cup playoffs opened with the St. Jude Championship in Memphis, August 13–16 — PGA Tour

Generation details

• Engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Canvas: 1536×1024 PNG, RGB
• Prompt: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-08-10_to_2026-08-16.txt
• Recovery: the required post-RUN_START ig_*.png freshness probe returned no path after the initial generation and one retry because built-in issue #28881/new exec-*.png persistence behavior prevented a matching artifact. Recovered the latest render from the current session using python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/08/17/rollout-2026-08-17T11-00-07-01a00f60-f443-7a41-bee8-b418da4672cf.jsonl" --out script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-08-10, then normalized it with Pillow LANCZOS.
• Visual QA: passed; one continuous newsroom scene, exact title/date, readable story labels, no panel grid, no numbered boxes, no recognizable real-person likenesses.

Delivery

• Commit/push result: succeeded; artifact commit f2146fea was pushed to origin/mike_desktop before email delivery.
• AgentMail email result: attachment sent successfully to mikeschecht@gmail.com; message ID <010001a00f6901e2-3302dbfa-879e-4359-8601-5f64a9c9c037-000000@email.amazonses.com>, thread ID 8badef55-18d3-448a-b726-175d2f8d963c. Notification-only fallback was not needed.
• Issues: built-in cache did not expose a post-RUN_START file matching the mandated ig_*.png pattern; session-transcript recovery succeeded. No Gemini fallback was needed.