Trump rejects Iran sanctions relief while AI data center pollution costs rise and OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra launch.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-30 00:47Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A cityscape at dusk with a mix of old and new buildings, people from different professions walking together, surrounded by subtle hints of technology and pollution, with a faint haze in the air and a sense of cautious progress.
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 cityscape at dusk with a mix of old and new buildings, people from different professions walking together, surrounded by subtle hints of technology and pollution, with a faint haze in the air and a sense of cautious progress. 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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OpenAI launches over 20 products at DevDay including GPT-6.1 Sol and Dots agent
Announcements filed 29 and 30 September 2026 cover models, developer tools and autonomous agents.
By Kenji Mori · 4dOpenAI launched more than 20 products at its DevDay event this week, across two days of public filings.
The releases include GPT-6.1 Sol, launched as a lower cost alternative to the flagship GPT-6 Astra model.
New capabilities were also announced for the Codex software engineering agent. A pre-release build of Codex version 0.161.0-alpha.5 was published to GitHub on 30 September.
Also unveiled were the Dots autonomous agent, ChatGPT Spaces, Decisions API, Codex Security Cloud, Agents API with Computer Use, and the OpenAI Marketplace. Codex Security Cloud is designed to scan GitHub repositories for security vulnerabilities and draft fixes.
OpenAI states Dots can run background professional tasks including user feedback monitoring, software bugfix preparation and research data processing, when operating correctly.
A separate cloud MCP server was announced to connect compatible AI assistants to Webull market intelligence and account tools without requiring programming work, credentials or local installation.
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