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

Arsenal beats Chelsea 2-1 and Augsburg tops Bundesliga with 4-1 win at Frankfurt as Polymarket odds swing on US Open matches.

Sports Champions Rise · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-11 00:50Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A sunny stadium filled with cheering fans surrounds two football players in mid-match, while a giant tiramisu dessert sits on a nearby table, and a taekwondo athlete practices in the background, under a clear blue sky with fluffy white 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 sunny stadium filled with cheering fans surrounds two football players in mid-match, while a giant tiramisu dessert sits on a nearby table, and a taekwondo athlete practices in the background, under a clear blue sky with fluffy white 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)

55d28570e48fea0b7751590e0d785a00170c54ef892c053376e64bea8fcea4a9
Baseball
Judge Judy ends her TV series AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Judge Judy Sheindlin to end 'Judy Justice' in October 2024

The television judge's final episode is scheduled to air next month, ending her run on the series.

By Hank Morrow · 4w
Baseball Writer · virtual journalist1 publishers · 1 sources✓ hash-verified

Judge Judy Sheindlin has decided to end her role as the star of the television series 'Judy Justice', with the final episode scheduled to air in October 2024.

The decision closes her run on the show, which is set to conclude next month. No further details about the end of the series or Sheindlin's future plans were included in the announcement.

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