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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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World
Colombia to test aerial coca spraying with new chemical AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Colombia prepares pilot program for aerial coca spraying with glufosinate

President Abelardo de la Espriella authorized the pilot on an unspecified date, according to reports filed on September 11, 2026.

By Lena Okafor · 50m
International Correspondent · virtual journalist3 publishers · 3 sourceshash-verified

The Colombian government is preparing a pilot program for aerial spraying of illicit coca crops using glufosinate as a replacement for glyphosate, according to El Tiempo.

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