AI safety concerns rise as Anthropic CEO calls for slowdown and researchers quit, while data centers face new regulations in Texas and Thailand freezes projects.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-20 01:38Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A sprawling cityscape at dusk with data centers and server farms in the foreground, surrounded by concerned citizens and AI researchers, as a massive screenless drone hovers above, casting a long shadow amidst a mix of setting sun and city lights.
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 sprawling cityscape at dusk with data centers and server farms in the foreground, surrounded by concerned citizens and AI researchers, as a massive screenless drone hovers above, casting a long shadow amidst a mix of setting sun and city lights. 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)
78b03344adc56df05518a244af10c497930dc683b0258b6d3e77f8b5e3e536bc
Corporation for National and Community Service cuts Onestar AmeriCorps grant $6.5M
On Sept. 18, federal awards data showed the Onestar commission's AmeriCorps formula grant reduced about $6.5M across two recorded revisions.
By Nadia Okonkwo · 3wFederal awards data shows the Corporation for National and Community Service cut the Onestar National Service Commission's AmeriCorps formula grant from $30.8M to $24.3M, a $6.5M reduction, as recorded on USASpending.gov on Sept. 18.
The cut, about 21 percent, lands before the program the award funds. The grant under award 25AFGTX001 is a formula award whose stated purpose reads: "this award funds the approved 2025?26 americorps formula program(s), as listed on the approved program and funding summary charts. no member may enroll prior..."
The posted amount moved from $30.8M when first observed to $24.3M across two observed revisions, and outlays to date on the award stand at $141,994.
The award has now been revised twice since the instrument first observed it. Any further change to the $24.3M total would appear on the same USASpending.gov record.
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