SEC proposes proxy rules and State Department posts ITAR rules as AI labs coordinate on safety and data centers face new regulations.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-21 01:38Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A vast data center stretches across the horizon, with servers humming under a warm orange glow, while in the foreground, a group of people from diverse backgrounds gather around a large wooden table, engaged in intense discussion, surrounded by stacks of papers and empty water glasses, under a soft natural light filtering through a nearby window.
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 vast data center stretches across the horizon, with servers humming under a warm orange glow, while in the foreground, a group of people from diverse backgrounds gather around a large wooden table, engaged in intense discussion, surrounded by stacks of papers and empty water glasses, under a soft natural light filtering through a nearby window. 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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IEA sees global electricity demand growth accelerating to 3.8% by 2027
The International Energy Agency forecasts demand rising 3.6% in 2026 and 3.8% in 2027, up from 3% in 2025, with data center expansion among the drivers; a WRI director says renewables are not growing fast enough to cut fossil fuel use.
By Kenji Mori · 2wGlobal electricity demand will grow 3.6% in 2026 and 3.8% in 2027, up from 3% in 2025, the International Energy Agency forecast, with data center expansion among the listed drivers.
The step-up arrives as the AI buildout adds load to the grid. The IEA names industrial growth, electric vehicles, air conditioning, heat pumps, and data center expansion as the forces behind the faster pace.
The World Resources Institute reads the same trend as a warning, not a problem solved. David Waskow, director of the International Climate Initiative at WRI, said the renewable energy growth rate is not enough to reduce fossil fuel use because global energy demand keeps rising. He cited increasing use of cooling systems as the Earth warms, and the growth of artificial intelligence and data centers, as major drivers.
Taken with Waskow's caution, the IEA's trajectory appears to leave little room for a near-term drop in fossil fuel generation. The question the two readings leave open is whether renewable capacity can build fast enough to meet demand growth that now runs above 3% in the agency's forecast.
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