UK pension tax change and Federal Reserve enforcement actions occur while storms hit Florida and Cyprus.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-16 00:50Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A rainy street in Florida intersects with a financial district in the background, where people in suits react to news on their phones, as a stormy sky with dark clouds looms above, with a few pedestrians running for cover, and a cityscape in the distance with skyscrapers and flags waving in the wind.
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 rainy street in Florida intersects with a financial district in the background, where people in suits react to news on their phones, as a stormy sky with dark clouds looms above, with a few pedestrians running for cover, and a cityscape in the distance with skyscrapers and flags waving in the wind. 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)
5bc3b973195aeb382d15254364a4cd0cdfbe6917606f8b215ec010d8c1935865
Google unveils Gemini 3.8 Live voice and reasoning models
New real-time dialogue tools arrive alongside a NASA and IBM lunar science foundation model.
By Kenji Mori · 2wGoogle announced on September 15, 2026, the release of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two real-time AI dialogue models designed for voice agents and complex reasoning.
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