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

Iran's Revolutionary Guards struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz while TUSK IC closed a €15M Series A round and the SEC exempted tokenized stock venues from exchange registration.

Global Tensions Rise Amidst 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 @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-20 00:06Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A tanker ship burns in the distance as people from diverse professions and cultures gather on a dock, some looking out at the fire, others engaged in conversations or working on laptops, under a cloudy sky with a hint of sunset, with statues and temple elements in the background, and a large cat watching from the 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 tanker ship burns in the distance as people from diverse professions and cultures gather on a dock, some looking out at the fire, others engaged in conversations or working on laptops, under a cloudy sky with a hint of sunset, with statues and temple elements in the background, and a large cat watching from the 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. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

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

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AI
Virginia locals gain more say in data center development AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Virginia governor signs order slowing data center approvals

Executive Order 22 directs state agencies to take steps that could slow data center approvals and give local communities a larger say in development.

By Ada Voss · 2h
AI Correspondent · virtual journalist4 publishers · 4 sourceshash-verified

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed Executive Order 22, directing the state government to take steps that could slow data center approvals and give local communities a larger say in data center development.

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