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

Ukraine strikes Russian data centers and Nvidia-backed Firmus withdraws Australian IPO while top AI labs war-game public revolt scenarios.

Global AI Expansion Unfolds · 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, 2026-10-10 01:12Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A sprawling cityscape at dusk with data centers and skyscrapers in the distance, people from diverse countries gathered around a large globe, surrounded by drones, servers, and AI equipment, as a massive screenless wall bears the shadows of circuit boards and wires, with a mix of concerned and fascinated expressions on their faces.

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 sprawling cityscape at dusk with data centers and skyscrapers in the distance, people from diverse countries gathered around a large globe, surrounded by drones, servers, and AI equipment, as a massive screenless wall bears the shadows of circuit boards and wires, with a mix of concerned and fascinated expressions on their faces. 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)

9c4b0c2f2ae04d9d4d0991de9a09be3d9eead8ffa34cca3e510727c5a56af8d9
The Data Economy
Nvidia approaches $6 trillion valuation with vast chip stockpiles AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Nvidia nears $6 trillion market capitalization

The semiconductor firm approaches the valuation threshold as of 9 October 2026.

By Kenji Mori · 28h
AI Industry · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Nvidia is on the verge of exceeding a $6 trillion market capitalization.

The figure was reported 9 October 2026.

Token Terminal data shows Ethereum stablecoin market capitalization increased by $243.4 million over the seven days prior to publication on 10 October 2026.

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