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

Quakes strike Indonesia and the Indian Ocean while Ukraine launches a massive drone attack on Moscow and Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman.

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, 2026-09-23 00:03Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A rainy cityscape in the foreground with people seeking shelter, while in the distance, a massive drone swarm flies towards a cityscape under a dark stormy sky, with a subtle glow of earthquake warning lights on the horizon, amidst a muted color palette with flashes of lightning.

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 rainy cityscape in the foreground with people seeking shelter, while in the distance, a massive drone swarm flies towards a cityscape under a dark stormy sky, with a subtle glow of earthquake warning lights on the horizon, amidst a muted color palette with flashes of lightning. 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)

a95e05147e24dea7da069ad4bd858dc85f94aaace537f5cac84bd2f377da350a
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Leader proposes AI safety alliance AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Carney proposes international AI safety bloc

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney proposed the creation of an international bloc focused on artificial intelligence safety, according to a report filed Sept. 21.

By Ada Voss · 55m
AI Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney proposed the creation of an international bloc focused on artificial intelligence safety, according to a report filed Sept. 21 by jornada.com.mx.

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