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

Venezuela demolishes earthquake damaged buildings while US-Israeli conflict continues and AI advancements raise warnings.

Summer Records and Global 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, 2026-09-13 00:04Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A dusty demolition site in La Guaira state meets a warm sunset as workers in hard hats and engineers in suits survey the rubble, while in the distance a river flows with increased streamflow, and a few planes fly overhead with contrails, under a sky with a deep orange glow.

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 dusty demolition site in La Guaira state meets a warm sunset as workers in hard hats and engineers in suits survey the rubble, while in the distance a river flows with increased streamflow, and a few planes fly overhead with contrails, under a sky with a deep orange glow. 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
AI lab considers slowing development over safety concerns AI illustrationhow this picture was made

OpenAI considers slowing AI development over safety concerns

CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the firm is weighing a slower pace for its most advanced models, according to reports filed Sept. 11.

By Ada Voss · 1h
AI Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

OpenAI is analyzing the possibility of slowing down the development of its most advanced AI models due to growing concerns related to their safety, according to a report from Diario Expreso filed Sept. 11.

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