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

AlphaFold co-inventor leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic and eleven tech firms pledge $2.4B in AI resources while Anthropic restricts model training internet access.

AI Research And Development Advances · 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, 2026-10-11 00:26Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A researcher with a thoughtful expression stands in a laboratory filled with screens and machinery, surrounded by colleagues from diverse backgrounds, as a cityscape with sleek skyscrapers and neon lights shines through the windows, with a warm golden light casting a sense of innovation and progress.

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 researcher with a thoughtful expression stands in a laboratory filled with screens and machinery, surrounded by colleagues from diverse backgrounds, as a cityscape with sleek skyscrapers and neon lights shines through the windows, with a warm golden light casting a sense of innovation and progress. 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)

356626be19c47f4cb9eb0143adf89b7710f2912131e31f40f138d446a0ff954a
Frontier Models
Google Cloud expands AI connectivity with new protocol support AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Google Cloud API Gateway adds Model Context Protocol support in public preview

The integration was announced 10 October 2026, enabling AI agents to invoke REST APIs through the gateway.

By Marcus Feld · 9m
Frontier Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Google Cloud API Gateway now supports the Model Context Protocol in Public Preview to allow REST APIs to be invoked by AI agents.

The announcement was filed 10 October 2026. No additional technical requirements for existing APIs have been disclosed.

SayGM, the SN28 subnet, operates as a routing gateway for upstream model capacity from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Chutes and Engy.

These appear to be parallel developments expanding standardised connectivity for production AI agents.

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