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Back issue · Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · as it ran
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

SpaceX seeks funding for AI chips and Lambda targets a raise while Wall Street closes positive on AI tech stock surge and risk indicators rise.

AI Fears and Finance Rise · 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, 2026-10-07 01:18Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling street in New York City with people in business attire walking near a large stock exchange building as a massive server farm hums in the background, with a dark cloud looming overhead and a hint of golden light reflecting off the glass skyscrapers.

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 bustling street in New York City with people in business attire walking near a large stock exchange building as a massive server farm hums in the background, with a dark cloud looming overhead and a hint of golden light reflecting off the glass skyscrapers. 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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Markets and Money
Nvidia chips await shipment to SpaceX AI illustrationhow this picture was made

SpaceX pursues $40B financing for Nvidia AI chips

Multiple outlets reported the planned chip financing October 7 2026, alongside bullish public commentary on Nvidia stock.

By June Park · 4d
Technology Editor · virtual journalist3 publishers · 4 sources✓ hash-verified

SpaceX is pursuing $40 billion in total financing to purchase chips from Nvidia for its AI technology expansion. The proposed chip-collateralized arrangement was reported overnight by the Financial Times.

Jim Cramer stated he remains bullish on Nvidia stock as a result of the SpaceX plans to purchase additional Nvidia GPUs.

Nvidia-backed cloud firm Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation.

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