Daily News Collage — August 11, 2026

• News date: 2026-08-11
• Timestamp shown: 08/11/2026 11:59 PM
• Saved image: My-Library/Images/News-Images/Daily-News-Collage/Images/August_2026/Daily-News-Collage_8-11-26.png
• Final engine: built-in gpt-image (recovered from session transcript)
• Canvas: 1024 × 1536 PNG, 2:3 portrait

Selected stories and sources

1. U.S. forces enforced the blockade of Iranian ports as the administration sought an exit from the Iran war. Source: https://apnews.com/article/84ee037681e5455587a4273eb777709e
2. Medical experts challenged an executive order urging changes to childhood vaccine recommendations. Source: https://apnews.com/article/287503e351b38ec01ac7377eadbc22c4
3. ICE planned to equip officers with gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks. Source: https://apnews.com/article/85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252
4. Primary elections in Minnesota and South Carolina shaped key 2026 races, including a South Carolina Senate runoff. Sources: https://apnews.com/article/ca0863958befa2571dff1827f9109999 and https://electionresults.sos.mn.gov/200
5. Russia released former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman after more than four years of disputed detention. Source: https://apnews.com/article/4c14fea91552117ffd7fd4c893c3768e
6. NOAA reported that July 2026 was the hottest month recorded across the contiguous United States. Source: https://apnews.com/article/4a9d612281485356103631f0f09b61af

Generation and validation

• Exact prompt preserved at script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/gemini-prompt_8-11-26.txt (run log; intentionally not published with the artifact commit).
• Two built-in renders were generated after RUN_START 1786541406. The required freshness lookup for ig_*.png returned no path because the tool persisted nonstandard exec-*.png files.
• Recovery command: python3 "/workspace/AI-Automation-Library/script/categories/shared/codex_extract_images.py" "/home/ubuntu/.codex/sessions/2026/08/12/rollout-2026-08-12T13-30-07-019ff62a-7c7b-72d2-b4f7-fa530ed0b055.jsonl" --out script/logs/daily-ai-news-collage/extracted_8-11-26
• The last extracted render was copied to the dated path and normalized with Pillow LANCZOS to exactly 1024 × 1536.
• Visual check: six square panels, six correctly spelled required captions, correct timestamp, detailed unified editorial style, and no recognizable real-person likenesses.

Delivery and publication

• Commit/push result: artifact commit dc326d36 pushed successfully to origin/mike_desktop before email delivery.
• AgentMail email result: attachment sent successfully to mikeschecht@gmail.com; message ID <0100019ff632f822-e60a3633-59d7-420b-9733-ce0ce2d0bdb4-000000@email.amazonses.com>, thread ID 10133f2c-45f2-488e-9605-f39605c58a34.

Issues

• Built-in cache naming did not match the required ig_*.png pattern, so session-transcript recovery was used.
• The render includes a small amount of incidental in-scene text on props (for example state/map and ballot labels), but all required captions and the timestamp are correct and readable.