AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2 billion and Nvidia announces $8.2B acquisition of World Labs while Google launches agent oversight preview.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-04 00:42Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded cityscape at dusk with people from various professions walking together, surrounded by towering skyscrapers with neon lights, as a massive chipmaker's facility looms in the background, with a giant AI model diagram projected onto its facade, casting a warm glow over the scene.
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 crowded cityscape at dusk with people from various professions walking together, surrounded by towering skyscrapers with neon lights, as a massive chipmaker's facility looms in the background, with a giant AI model diagram projected onto its facade, casting a warm glow over the scene. 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, Anthropic, Google agree to NYC Council hearing after subpoena warning
The three frontier AI labs confirmed attendance following formal notice from New York City Council officials.
By Marcus Feld · 6dOpenAI, Anthropic and Google have agreed to send representatives to the upcoming New York City Council hearing, after council officials warned the firms they could be issued subpoenas.
The confirmation followed a meeting with a wider cohort of major technology companies operating in artificial intelligence.
That meeting also produced agreed frameworks for voluntary AI self-regulation. Attending firms included Meta, Nvidia and xAI alongside the three labs.
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