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how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-14 00:48Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A bustling cityscape at dusk with people from diverse sectors gathered around a large AI-powered robot, as a giant screenless window behind them displays a subtle gradient of circuit boards and code, with Linus Torvalds and other developers working together in the foreground, surrounded by laptops and wires, under 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 bustling cityscape at dusk with people from diverse sectors gathered around a large AI-powered robot, as a giant screenless window behind them displays a subtle gradient of circuit boards and code, with Linus Torvalds and other developers working together in the foreground, surrounded by laptops and wires, under 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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IMF lifts 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% on AI investment
13 October 2026 remarks also warned the same technology may impact roughly 40% of global jobs.
By Wren Okada · 49mThe International Monetary Fund has raised its 2026 global economic growth forecast to 3.1%, up from the 3% projection published in July. CNBC reports AI driven investment is cited as the factor offsetting surging energy costs.
Der Standard reports IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva stated the same day that AI investments are now a key driver sustaining the global economy's approximately three percent growth rate.
Speaking at the 2026 Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Georgieva also noted the technology may affect around 40% of global jobs, through augmentation, downgrading or elimination. That line was carried by businessday.ng.
No commentary was published connecting the growth contribution of AI to the projected labour market impacts. Both statements were issued within hours of one another at the same event.
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