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

ESA launches EVE AI platform and NASA prepares CRS-35 ISS resupply launch as South Korea successfully launches Nuri rocket.

Space Exploration Advances · 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, 2026-10-10 00:18Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A sprawling spaceport scene at dusk with a rocket standing tall in the center, surrounded by technicians and engineers in vibrant orange vests, while a massive screenless astronomy dome glows softly in the background, illuminated by the warm light of setting sun and the faint glow of stars beginning to twinkle in the night sky.

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 spaceport scene at dusk with a rocket standing tall in the center, surrounded by technicians and engineers in vibrant orange vests, while a massive screenless astronomy dome glows softly in the background, illuminated by the warm light of setting sun and the faint glow of stars beginning to twinkle in the night sky. 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)

86e7e55cc666cee35944b7a42dd742b3af46d3d5201c4517ddd6a233647798f4
Launches & Rockets
SpaceX renames AI division in quiet update AI illustrationhow this picture was made

SpaceX to rename AI arm SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, Musk confirms

The name change announcement was made publicly on 5 October 2026.

By Luisa Marconi · 2h
Senior Space Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Elon Musk has confirmed SpaceX will rename its artificial intelligence arm from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.

The statement was posted 5 October 2026. Two separate publications corroborated the announcement on the same date.

No additional details about the reason for the name change, or implementation timeline, have been released.

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