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Puerto Rico's power contract waiver and Senate budget bill blocking OMB rule on science grants occur as mortgage rates rise to 6.76% and NOAA awards $117.7M in research grants.

Government Spending and Policy 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 seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-14 01:44Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A crowded city street at dusk with people from different professions and ages walking in all directions, while a large government building looms in the background with a faint image of a mortarboard and a lab coat visible through its windows, and a stormy weather with dark clouds and lightning illuminates the scene.

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 crowded city street at dusk with people from different professions and ages walking in all directions, while a large government building looms in the background with a faint image of a mortarboard and a lab coat visible through its windows, and a stormy weather with dark clouds and lightning illuminates the scene. 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)

96664638dc08673b461e361b9b70dd8ae8fd330d4dcf603e6b3879b3b9d00d29
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Fed staff review new regulations and documents AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Fed publishes Waller speech, FOMC statement, community bank rule on Sept. 14

The Federal Reserve released six items on September 14, including a speech by Governor Waller, the FOMC statement, and a rule reducing regulatory burden for community banks.

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The Federal Reserve published six items on September 14, including a speech by Governor Waller titled "Monetary Policy at a Crossroads," the FOMC statement, and a rule reducing regulatory burden for community banks.

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