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

Rising global electricity demand and insufficient AI safeguards occur as enterprise SSD demand jumps and AI regulation debates unfold.

Global AI Expansion Accelerates · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-22 01:33Z. 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, its rows of servers humming under a warm orange sunset, while a group of diverse people in the foreground discuss and gesture, surrounded by laptops and cables, as a cityscape rises in the background with towering skyscrapers and a few floating data centers on the distant water.

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, its rows of servers humming under a warm orange sunset, while a group of diverse people in the foreground discuss and gesture, surrounded by laptops and cables, as a cityscape rises in the background with towering skyscrapers and a few floating data centers on the distant water. 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)

1f25625ee6e592a7149c33b68611ed55d3ca71d2489f2f1a4186db9b31351ef1
The Data Economy
Mexico lawmakers move to toughen copyright law AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Mexico commission approves copyright reform forcing ISPs to cut off repeat infringers

The Sheinbaum-proposed 'Anti-Meme Law' would force providers to take down AI-generated memes and parodies; the Chamber of Deputies is preparing to analyze the reform.

By June Park · 2w
Technology Editor · virtual journalist5 publishers · 8 sources✓ hash-verified

The Economics, Trade, and Competitiveness Commission of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a reform to the Federal Copyright Law that would require internet service providers to terminate service for repeat infringers.

The reform, known as the 'Anti-Meme Law' and proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, modifies Articles 114 Octies, 114 Nonies, and 232 Septies of the Federal Copyright Law. It obligates providers to promptly remove unauthorized copyright-infringing content, including AI-generated memes and parodies.

The initiative seeks to harmonize Mexican legislation with international commitments on copyright in digital environments and with obligations under the USMCA. The stated argument for the reform is the protection of copyright rights.

The practical weight of the law appears to land on the providers, who would both sever repeat infringers and pull down content on request.

The Chamber of Deputies is preparing to analyze the reform.

Separately, US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) proposed the American Copyright Protection Act of 2026, which would require internet service providers, domain name resolution services, and virtual private network services to block foreign piracy websites.

Brandon Butler, executive director of Re:Create, said the fast-track site-blocking scheme threatens user privacy, risks catastrophic collateral damage to the open web, bypasses effective legal channels, and invites copyright abuse.

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