Colombia accelerates trade agreement ratification and MaxLinear revenue jumps 141% as oil prices rise above $100 per barrel.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-12 01:15Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded street in a financial district with people of diverse ages and professions walking in different directions, set against a backdrop of tall skyscrapers and a giant oil pumpjack in the distance, under a cloudy sky with a warm orange glow.
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 street in a financial district with people of diverse ages and professions walking in different directions, set against a backdrop of tall skyscrapers and a giant oil pumpjack in the distance, under a cloudy sky with a warm orange glow. 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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Andreessen Horowitz leads multiple startup rounds in summer 2026
The firm backed Network School, Atoms, and Gimlet Labs while partners weighed in on AI and community.
By Dex Ramiro · 3wAndreessen Horowitz led a $1.7 billion funding round for Atoms in July 2026, according to records from Ekonomim.
The same firm led the funding for Gimlet Labs, per a report from techmeme.com.
Travis Kalanick, who leads Atoms, told an Andreessen Horowitz event that 'a lot of the things that would have happened with Uber over time are things we're doing now.'
Balaji Srinivasan, a former Coinbase tech chief and Andreessen Horowitz partner, announced on Sunday that his live-in startup community, Network School, has officially opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Anish Acharya, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, stated on an episode of Lenny's Podcast that fears of a permanent underclass forming due to AI are not rooted in reality.
Jared Friedman, a managing partner at Y Combinator, stated in a podcast last year that a quarter of its current companies were already generating almost all their code with AI.
The read here is that Andreessen Horowitz is positioning itself at the intersection of physical community infrastructure and AI-driven operational models, even as the broader market questions the societal impacts of that concentration.
Two Rotorua-led tourism collaborations secured about $1.8 million in the latest round of New Zealand government funding, a separate development from the tech sector activity.
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