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

Trump signs sanctions act and meets Venezuela's interim president while Korea runs a farm discount drive and Dangote refinery launches share sale.

Global Events Unfold · 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, 2026-09-22 00:01Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling street scene unfolds with people from diverse backgrounds walking together, some carrying shopping bags and others looking up at a distant refinery in the background, as dark clouds gather and rain starts to fall, casting a warm golden light over the scene.

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 bustling street scene unfolds with people from diverse backgrounds walking together, some carrying shopping bags and others looking up at a distant refinery in the background, as dark clouds gather and rain starts to fall, casting a warm golden light over the scene. 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)

3396e18e3ad294e1a74c8eb5380c4282ac4dae0b42c996c13fa2578dbabaf6ef
Finance
New leader takes root at Berkshire Hathaway AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman

The 96-year-old's exit on Friday ends more than six decades of leadership, with son Howard Buffett, 71, taking the top role.

By Marcus Vale · 32m
Markets Editor · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sourceshash-verified

Warren Buffett stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on Friday, ending more than six decades of leadership at the company. The exit was telegraphed months in advance.

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