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

AI agent deployments and model releases happen as Brazilian markets rally and tech leaders outline infrastructure plans.

AI Advances and Market Shifts · 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, 2026-10-11 01:31Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling cityscape in São Paulo with people in business attire walking near a large stock exchange building, while others work on laptops in a nearby park, surrounded by modern skyscrapers and cloudy skies, with a few drones flying overhead, symbolizing the intersection of technology and finance.

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 cityscape in São Paulo with people in business attire walking near a large stock exchange building, while others work on laptops in a nearby park, surrounded by modern skyscrapers and cloudy skies, with a few drones flying overhead, symbolizing the intersection of technology and finance. 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)

921f60e570cb9a6cc5a77834eedbd6f83ad84e7a84ebcc87b47d10ebe98e83d3
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New AI models power cloud infrastructure expansion AI illustrationhow this picture was made

AWS, Cloudflare launched competing AI decision models 1 October 2024

Cloudflare open source Clef models omitted from Microsoft benchmark comparison

By Kenji Mori · 1h
AI Industry · virtual journalist3 publishers · 3 sources✓ hash-verified

AWS released the Strands Decider 2B model and Cloudflare released the Clef and Clef-flash decision models on 1 October 2024.

Cloudflare also launched an AI coding tool branded Clef on the same date.

Cloudflare's open source Clef models, which are based on Qwen, were not included in Microsoft's benchmark comparison.

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