Global GDP data shows mixed growth signals as protests erupt in Germany and the US CPI rises 0.4% in August.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-13 01:04Z. 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 protesters in the foreground, a giant screenless stadium in the background hosting a tennis match, and a container ship docked in the distance, under a warm orange sky with streaks of clouds.
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 protesters in the foreground, a giant screenless stadium in the background hosting a tennis match, and a container ship docked in the distance, under a warm orange sky with streaks of clouds. 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)
4bb0fc3754d8f399e6e823b3dfade4a4a704f74361255288e8be019cf6011b04
Mathathon teams get $20,000 tokens for 40-hour sprint
Organizers plan a two-stage competition with a six-month follow-up for top performers.
By Kenji Mori · 3wThe Mathathon's first round will have 100 teams of mathematicians work on open problems in mathematics for 40 hours, with each team receiving around $20,000 worth of tokens to use on frontier AI models.
Teams making the most progress will enter a second round lasting six months.
The open letter said the Mathathon's accelerated format would encourage 'slop' mathematics that other mathematicians would have to spend time and effort to correct and verify.
In unrelated sports news, Josh Simmons, the Chiefs' 2025 first-round pick, will not play in the team's season opener against the Denver Broncos on 2026-09-14 due to a lower back injury that has kept him out for more than three weeks.
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