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

Security breaches and lawsuit allegations hit OpenAI and Anthropic as they release new models and executives call for a slowdown in AI development.

AI Development Pace Slows · 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, 2026-09-27 00:52Z. 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 foreground, warm light spilling out onto the sidewalk where a group of concerned-looking people in business attire gather, while others in the background walk away from a billboard-sized screen that is turned off, its dark surface reflecting the city lights.

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 foreground, warm light spilling out onto the sidewalk where a group of concerned-looking people in business attire gather, while others in the background walk away from a billboard-sized screen that is turned off, its dark surface reflecting the city lights. 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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Frontier Models
Senate inquiry calls AI CEOs to testify AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Australian Senate AI inquiry requests OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs attend public hearings

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young confirmed the requests had been sent on 27 September 2026.

By Marcus Feld · 13d
Frontier Correspondent · virtual journalist3 publishers · 4 sources✓ hash-verified

The Australian Senate AI inquiry has sent requests for OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to appear at public hearings in Canberra.

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, chair of the inquiry, stated on 27 September 2026 that written requests had been issued.

During that same week, both executives presented on AI autonomy risks to the UN Security Council.

Leadership from both labs have called for international cooperation, independent system audits and controlled pacing of AI development.

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