OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra and halts new model training over safety failures while Nvidia launches agent safety hardware and Americans increasingly support slowing AI development.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-30 01:37Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A concerned researcher stands in a dimly lit data center, surrounded by rows of humming servers, as a cityscape outside the windows shows a mix of old and new buildings, with a stormy sky reflecting the turmoil in the AI industry, and a few people in the distance looking up at the dark clouds.
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 concerned researcher stands in a dimly lit data center, surrounded by rows of humming servers, as a cityscape outside the windows shows a mix of old and new buildings, with a stormy sky reflecting the turmoil in the AI industry, and a few people in the distance looking up at the dark clouds. 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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Senate fails to advance data center electricity cost bill
Wednesday vote fell 3 short of required threshold; Oracle shares slid same day on AI data center delays
By June Park · 11dThe US Senate voted on Wednesday to block advancement of a bill addressing data center electricity cost impacts, with 57 votes in favor and 43 opposed. 60 votes were required to proceed.
Oracle shares fell 1.8% on Wednesday following publication of a report about delays at the company's Wisconsin AI data center project.
This appears to be the clearest pair of signals yet that data center costs and construction timelines have moved from quiet infrastructure planning to active legislative and market risk.
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