Weekly News Montage — Sep 7-13, 2026

• Week start: 2026-09-07 (Monday).
• Week end: 2026-09-13 (Sunday).
• Local system date: 2026-09-14, UTC. Previous completed Monday–Sunday week.
• Image title: WEEK IN REVIEW.
• Image date text: Sep 7-13, 2026.

Selected stories and sources

1. September 11: Americans marked 25 years since the September 11 attacks. Symbol: flowers, flag, twin memorial light beams; label 9/11: 25 YEARS. AP, AP via Local 10.
2. September 10: An appeals court kept a block on the administration’s mail-voting order. Symbol: ballot envelopes and gavel; label MAIL VOTING ORDER BLOCKED. AP via KUER.
3. September 9–10: Republicans held a midterm convention in Dallas. Symbol: empty podium on an assignment cart; label DALLAS GOP MIDTERM CONVENTION. Roll Call, September 11.
4. September 11: The inflation report showed renewed monthly price pressure as fuel costs weighed on households. Symbol: gas pump, receipt and upward arrow; label FUEL PRICES SQUEEZE. AP.
5. September 12: Anthropic’s CEO called for slower AI development and stronger safety oversight. This was an appeal, not an enacted industry shutdown. Symbol: computer, brake lever and evaluator clipboard; label ANTHROPIC CALLS FOR SLOWDOWN. AP, AP via OPB.
6. September 13: Heavy rain caused flash flooding, rescues and transport disruption in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Symbol: weather map, wet raincoat and rescue ring; label NY NJ CT FLASH FLOODS. AP.

Generation and validation

• Engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript). Generated September 14, 2026; two built-in calls. No API or Gemini fallback used.
• Exact final single-block prompt: script/logs/weekly-news-montage/gemini-prompt_2026-09-07_to_2026-09-13.txt (local run log; not committed).
• RUN_START: 1789383604. The prescribed post-start ig_*.png search returned no matches after both calls. The tool instead saved exec-*.png files; the second has mtime 1789383918. No stale cache artifact was used.
• Recovery command: python3 script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py /home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/09/14/rollout-2026-09-14T11-00-06-01a09f92-fef4-7f43-aa08-934a0c1e98ae.jsonl --out script/logs/weekly-news-montage/extracted_2026-09-07. Result: EXTRACTED_COUNT 2; used the last extracted file, ending line67_002.png.
• Validated genuine PNG, exactly 1536 × 1024. Visual review: continuous newsroom, six story labels, correct title and date, no panels or numbered boxes, generic people without recognizable real-person likenesses.
• Issues: First render added background slogans; the targeted retry removed them. Final render retains minor receipt texture and an extra AI marking on the computer. Some direct AP page opens failed; Codex web search supplied dated AP reporting, supplemented by AP syndication and Roll Call. User-specified September_2026 folder takes precedence over the visual brief’s year-only save convention.
• Saved image: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Weekly-News-Montage/Images/September_2026/Weekly-News-Montage_2026-09-07_to_2026-09-13.png.

Delivery

• Commit/push result: artifact commit 6b817701 succeeded and was pushed to origin mike_desktop before email. This delivery record is saved in a metadata-only follow-up commit.
• Agentmail artifact helper result: sent successfully to mikeschecht@gmail.com through the configured Resend provider after publication. Notification-only fallback was not needed.

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