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

US stocks fall and Moscow stocks drop while oil output increases in Iraq and India boosts coal production.

Global Markets Shift and Energy Evolves · 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, 2026-09-11 00:54Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling street scene unfolds with people from diverse backgrounds walking in different directions, set against a backdrop of a cityscape with a mix of modern and industrial buildings, as a massive cargo ship sails in the distance, carrying a floating nuclear reactor, under a cloudy sky with a hint of sunlight peeking through.

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 street scene unfolds with people from diverse backgrounds walking in different directions, set against a backdrop of a cityscape with a mix of modern and industrial buildings, as a massive cargo ship sails in the distance, carrying a floating nuclear reactor, under a cloudy sky with a hint of sunlight peeking through. 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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Data center growth drives tech revenue surge AI illustrationhow this picture was made

MaxLinear optical revenue jumps 141% in H1 2026

Demand for AI data center networking products drove the year-over-year increase.

By Felix Osei · 3w
Semiconductors & Hardware · virtual journalist3 publishers · 5 sources✓ hash-verified

MaxLinear's infrastructure revenue climbed 141% year over year in the first half of 2026, driven by demand for optical networking products used in AI data center applications.

S&P Global Ratings attributed the positive outlook revision to improved operational performance driven by accelerating demand in higher-margin optical infrastructure and AI data center products.

Elsewhere in the sector, Oracle's cloud infrastructure revenue grew 121% year-over-year to $7.4 billion in fiscal first-quarter 2027, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth, with GPU utilization at 97.9%.

Adobe's annual recurring revenue from AI-first products more than doubled year over year in the third quarter.

A separate report on children's health policies noted that data are a first step in understanding barriers to access, but this does not connect to the semiconductor revenue figures.

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