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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Dell raises fiscal guidance and OpenAI releases ChatGPT model Astra as researchers find VR training helps control myopia in children.

Global Tech and Economic Shifts · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-04 00:01Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A cityscape at dusk with a massive server farm in the background, while a group of children in VR headsets play in the foreground, and a businessman in a suit walks towards a Dell logo-free server, with a subtle glow of screens and a warm orange light casting long shadows.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A cityscape at dusk with a massive server farm in the background, while a group of children in VR headsets play in the foreground, and a businessman in a suit walks towards a Dell logo-free server, with a subtle glow of screens and a warm orange light casting long shadows. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. Any surface that would carry writing is left blank.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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Venezuelan earthquake victims remain unidentified AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Venezuelan official says 315 earthquake victims remain unidentified

Ceuta's president says 72,000 people entered the autonomous city irregularly on July 30, and Israel's defense minister calls for Palestinian migration from Gaza.

By Lena Okafor · 1h
International Correspondent · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sourceshash-verified

Jorge Rodriguez, president of the Venezuelan parliament, stated on June 25, 2026, that 315 of the earthquake's victims remain unidentified, according to two publishers.

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