AI labs near pact to slow development and five subnets jump in value as companies unveil new models and security measures.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-23 01:01Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A cityscape at dusk with people gathered around a large stone pedestal where a glowing orb represents AI development, while others in the background work on laptops and look concerned, amidst a mix of old and new buildings with neon lights reflecting off wet pavement.
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 people gathered around a large stone pedestal where a glowing orb represents AI development, while others in the background work on laptops and look concerned, amidst a mix of old and new buildings with neon lights reflecting off wet pavement. 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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OpenAI and Anthropic release cheaper models for enterprise
New GPT-6 and Claude 5.5 variants launched on September 22 to reduce AI spending for customers.
By Marcus Feld · 2wOpenAI and Anthropic released new AI models on September 22 aimed at lowering costs for customers seeking to reduce AI spending.
OpenAI's blog post stated that GPT-6 Sol and Luna were trained with similar methods as GPT-6 Astra to bring advances in professional work, factuality, coding, computer use, and alignment to faster, more affordable models. Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Anthropic's platforms and through Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
AWS Philippines Country Manager Precious Lim stated that the use of Amazon Bedrock allows AI.Smart to offer users a choice of models rather than relying on a single system. Researchers introduced MCPGen, an executable benchmark for Model Context Protocol (MCP) workflow development.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay on September 12, 2026, urging labs to slow capability gains but wrote that pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress. PYMNTS reported in August 2026 that OpenAI was ending its agreement to supply AI models to Cursor following SpaceX's acquisition of the coding startup, citing concerns about whether SpaceX would comply with OpenAI's terms of service.
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