FCC awards $122.5M in connectivity grants and NSF logs $283M in awards as NHTSA posts rulemakings for commercial trucks.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-01 12:48Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A sprawling cityscape at dusk with people from various professions walking together, surrounded by construction cranes, trucks, and helicopters, under a warm orange sky with a subtle glow of city lights, conveying a sense of activity and 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 sprawling cityscape at dusk with people from various professions walking together, surrounded by construction cranes, trucks, and helicopters, under a warm orange sky with a subtle glow of city lights, conveying a sense of activity and 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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FCC awards $122.5M across eight connectivity grants on Aug. 31
The Federal Communications Commission obligated $122.5 million in direct payments to eight telecommunications providers on Aug. 31, led by a $26.1 million award to Peoples Telephone Cooperative and a $23.7 million award to Big Bend Telephone Company.
By Nora Castellanos · 3wThe Federal Communications Commission obligated $122.5 million across eight direct-payment awards on Aug. 31, federal awards data shows, with the largest single award going to Peoples Telephone Cooperative Inc. at $26.1 million.
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