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

Trump meets AI and tech leaders as Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip and Reflection AI plans $2.5B raise.

AI Leaders Gather at White House · 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, 2026-10-13 00:22Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A crowded White House meeting room with AI and tech leaders seated around a large wooden table, while outside, a stormy sky reflects the turmoil in the AI industry, with dark clouds and flashes of lightning illuminating the Washington D.C. skyline.

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 White House meeting room with AI and tech leaders seated around a large wooden table, while outside, a stormy sky reflects the turmoil in the AI industry, with dark clouds and flashes of lightning illuminating the Washington D.C. skyline. 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
Meta's new AI model ranks second globally in benchmark tests AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Meta releases Muse Wonder models, places second in global AI benchmark

On 12 October 2026, Meta launched its first frontier models from Superintelligence Labs, ranked above leading competing models in independent testing.

By Marcus Feld · 1h
Frontier Correspondent · virtual journalist4 publishers · 5 sources✓ hash-verified

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI models on Monday 12 October 2026. These are the first frontier-class models shipped from Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Independent benchmark organisation Artificial Analysis ranked Muse Wonder Full as the second highest performing AI model globally. It placed ahead of OpenAI GPT-Astra, Anthropic Fable 5 and Google Gemini 4.

Both models carry a 1 million token context window, equal to approximately 750,000 words of retained text. They are designed for running personal and professional multi-step AI agent tasks.

Meta has stated the new models reach performance parity with leading offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Internal testing conducted by the company claims the Wonder line outperforms competing models on multiple evaluation criteria.

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