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

Nvidia's exclusive SpaceX deal and Trump's White House meeting with Xi occur as lawmakers move to regulate AI and data centers.

AI Advances and Global Meetings · 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, 2026-09-26 01:32Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A cityscape at dusk with a sprawling data center in the background, while in the foreground, people from diverse professions gather around a large, glowing AI model, as a suited figure and a diplomat walk towards a grand building, under a sky with clouds reflecting the colors of sunset and circuit boards.

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 cityscape at dusk with a sprawling data center in the background, while in the foreground, people from diverse professions gather around a large, glowing AI model, as a suited figure and a diplomat walk towards a grand building, under a sky with clouds reflecting the colors of sunset and circuit boards. 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)

1ff4ff644babac771d30a9aa36237686b0548de1af2397fab29b22a6608fcbed
The Data Economy
County puts AI data centers on hold AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Palm Beach County approves 1-year AI data center moratorium; Crusoe raises $3.9B

Both developments were reported on September 25, 2026.

By June Park · 2w
Technology Editor · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Palm Beach County commissioners unanimously approved an emergency one year moratorium on large-scale AI data centers.

Separately, Crusoe recently raised $3.9 billion in funding. The company operates AI data centers, including a large campus in Abilene, Texas supplying OpenAI.

No connection between the two actions is noted in the available filings.

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