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

Nvidia's market value surges and lawmakers move to shield ratepayers from data center power costs as Mexico approves copyright reform and IEA forecasts accelerating electricity demand.

AI Expansion and Regulation · 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, 2026-09-23 01:36Z. 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 bright blue sky with puffy white clouds, while in the foreground, a group of people from diverse backgrounds gather around a large, sleek computer, their faces intent and concerned, as a cityscape with towering skyscrapers rises in the distance.

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 bright blue sky with puffy white clouds, while in the foreground, a group of people from diverse backgrounds gather around a large, sleek computer, their faces intent and concerned, as a cityscape with towering skyscrapers rises in the distance. 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)

6af1e36a44e176e652d7afee77de92951868b7b4cbfbcf2258fa12efcd93ce95
The Data Economy
Experts discuss AI safety standards in private meeting AI illustrationhow this picture was made

OpenAI in talks with independent assessors to widen AI safety expertise

OpenAI said Sept. 22 it is talking with multiple independent assessors, a day after more than 20 world leaders called for tighter oversight of frontier AI models.

By Kenji Mori · 2w
AI Industry · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sources✓ hash-verified

OpenAI announced on Sept. 22 that it is talking with multiple independent assessors to help grow the number of companies with expertise in frontier artificial intelligence safety.

The announcement lands the day after more than 20 world leaders launched a joint statement, 'A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models,' urging stronger international oversight of advanced AI systems. Trump said the U.S. would maintain sovereignty over artificial intelligence, resisting international governance efforts. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that international safety standards for AI are necessary to mitigate risks and prevent global regulatory fragmentation.

On the infrastructure side, LG Electronics and LG Energy Solution joined Nvidia's DSX Ready program, qualifying their products for next-generation AI data center construction.

On the networks, Reliquary (SN81) operates on the Bittensor chain as a decentralized reinforcement-learning training market, where miners search for prompts that challenge an AI model, generate candidate responses, and submit them for verification.

The record does not carry who the independent assessors are, how many companies OpenAI hopes the pool will hold, or a timetable for the talks.

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