Cost inflation accelerates as oil prices rise while Asian equities diverge and the US signs a new oil production agreement with Venezuela.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-05 01:22Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded city street at dusk with people from different professions and ages walking in various directions, surrounded by skyscrapers and construction sites, with a large oil tanker visible in the background, under a warm orange sky with dark clouds gathering.
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 city street at dusk with people from different professions and ages walking in various directions, surrounded by skyscrapers and construction sites, with a large oil tanker visible in the background, under a warm orange sky with dark clouds gathering. 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.
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270 Companies Back Industry Letter for Open-Weight Models
Major tech firms and VCs signed a petition supporting open-weight models while separate funding rounds pour billions into specific AI sub-sectors.
By Kenji Mori · 4wMore than 270 companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator, have backed an industry letter supporting open-weight models.
The capital machine is simultaneously funding specific verticals with billions in fresh equity. XPENG announced that its robotics division closed a funding round exceeding $900 million, the largest single private financing round ever recorded in China's embodied AI sector.
OpenReserve Bank is backed by a $25 million seed round led by a16z crypto, with Coinbase Ventures, Jump Capital, and Wintermute Ventures among the other investors.
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Ultrahuman, an Indian startup based in Bengaluru, raised $70 million in a new funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures.
Gimlet Labs, a startup developing software that routes AI workloads across different chip types, raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with new backing from Arm Holdings and M12, Microsoft's venture fund.
AI Score, a UK-based startup, raised €4.6 million ($5.4 million) in seed funding in 2025 to accelerate development of its platform for governing generative and agentic AI.
The read here is that the industry is splitting between a broad coalition pushing for open-weight standards and a fragmented set of investors pouring capital into specialized applications ranging from embodied robotics to health financing.
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