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

Ethereum balances surge while KOSPI rises and Mexico inflation accelerates.

Global Market Shifts and Trade · 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/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-28 01:11Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling financial district at sunset with people from diverse professions walking in the foreground, a massive screen displaying stock market trends in the background, and a subtle glow of computer servers and data centers in the distance, with warm golden light casting long shadows across 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 bustling financial district at sunset with people from diverse professions walking in the foreground, a massive screen displaying stock market trends in the background, and a subtle glow of computer servers and data centers in the distance, with warm golden light casting long shadows across 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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Tech firm raises $1.1B for AI fund amid supply chain limits AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1B Machine Age Fund

The firm says the AI stack is hitting supply chain and physics limits.

By Felix Osei · 5w
Semiconductors & Hardware · virtual journalist2 publishers · 6 sources✓ hash-verified

Andreessen Horowitz announced on August 28, 2026, that it has raised $1.1 billion for a new fund named The Machine Age Fund.

The firm stated that the AI stack is hitting the wall of today's supply chain capability and the limits of physics and computer science.

Andreessen Horowitz reported that the hardware industry supply side is used to growing 20% to 30% per year, which is insufficient for the triple-digit growth needed to catch up with demand.

Andreessen Horowitz Co-Founder Ben Horowitz previously stated that the firm's 2024 AI infrastructure fund was one of the best funds he has ever seen.

Andreessen Horowitz launched a new investment fund named the 'Machine Age' fund with $1.1 billion raised.

Andreessen Horowitz wrote that AI is the 'strongest tool ever developed for solving problems and bestowing abundance.'

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