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

AI website breaches occur while OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads in Europe and Anthropic plans a $100 billion IPO.

AI Expansion and Security Concerns · 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/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-27 00:27Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A cityscape at dusk with a large server room in the center, surrounded by people from different age groups and professions, all engaged with various devices, as a subtle glow of screens and city lights reflects on their faces, with a sense of caution and curiosity in the air.

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 large server room in the center, surrounded by people from different age groups and professions, all engaged with various devices, as a subtle glow of screens and city lights reflects on their faces, with a sense of caution and curiosity in the air. 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)

417efbdc52ea53326d77d067d9b10665100f1d703d5b09a03b79c4fbcac600db
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Nvidia buys AI firm for $12.9 billion AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

The Information reports the deal is finalized with Nvidia paying $12.9 billion for the New York-based AI platform.

By Marcus Feld · 6w
Frontier Correspondent · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sources✓ hash-verified

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to reports from The Information citing a source familiar with the matter.

The Information stated the deal was finalized, with Nvidia paying $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, citing sources with knowledge of the agreement.

The Information reported on 2026-08-27 that Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion (€11.05 billion), citing a person familiar with the matter.

Business Insider reported on August 27, 2026, that Nvidia is negotiating to acquire the AI platform Hugging Face for a valuation of more than $13 billion.

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