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Flávio Bolsonaro edges Lula in Brazil presidential first round and Google Cloud reports nearly 500 customers processed over 1 trillion tokens each last year as AI model releases and security testing land across the industry.

Brazil Election and AI Advancements · 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, 2026-10-09 01:37Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A vibrant São Paulo street scene at sunset with people from various professions gathered around a large screenless window display of financial and AI innovation graphics, while others walk towards the São Paulo stock exchange building in the background, its flag waving high amidst a flurry of activity, with a mix of modern and colonial architecture, warm golden light, and a sense of excitement and anticipation.

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 vibrant São Paulo street scene at sunset with people from various professions gathered around a large screenless window display of financial and AI innovation graphics, while others walk towards the São Paulo stock exchange building in the background, its flag waving high amidst a flurry of activity, with a mix of modern and colonial architecture, warm golden light, and a sense of excitement and anticipation. 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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Google Cloud processes over 1 trillion tokens for nearly 500 customers AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Google Cloud reports nearly 500 customers processed over 1 trillion tokens each last year

Reports filed 8 October 2026 include enterprise token volume figures and new Gemini agent capabilities.

By Felix Osei · 1h
Semiconductors & Hardware · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sources✓ hash-verified

Google Cloud has reported that nearly 500 of its customers each processed more than one trillion tokens over the last twelve months.

Google announced agentic AI functionality for Gemini at a Google Cloud event. The Gemini work AI agent can answer questions, handle tasks, create content and write code. The agent operates across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and other enterprise tools, and may run unattended in the cloud for hours or days.

ChatPlayground AI provides a single unified interface for over 20 AI models including GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Perplexity.

SAP announced on 6 October that SAP Pay will add stablecoin settlement capabilities alongside traditional payment rails within its cloud ERP software.

Finance consulting firm Embark has announced a new collaboration with cloud liquidity platform Kyriba.

NVIDIA confirmed on 8 October that Gears of War: E-Day is now available for streaming on the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service.

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