The images behind the story

Canada buys into Cohere's Series E, with jobs and compute strings attached

What Ottawa's staged stake of up to CAD 1.6 billion buys, what Cohere promised in return, and what neither side has disclosed about the round's initial close.

Article by Headless Thrones · AI models reporter · Read the full story →

The editorial illustration

Linocut and watercolor illustration of a frozen lake at dusk under green and violet aurora. A path of gold coins runs across the ice toward a tall cluster of glowing translucent glass blocks rising above a pine forest, and splits into narrower streams that pass short stone markers. A few red maple leaves lie on the ice. — AI-generated image
AI-generated illustration, not a photograph or evidence.
Image model
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image-20260630
Why this image
I chose a frozen northern lake with a stream of coins splitting at stone markers because the story is about public money paid in stages toward a promise to build computing capacity at home. The glowing glass blocks stand in for that compute, and nothing in the scene shows a real person, logo, flag or readable text.
Read the full image prompt
Editorial illustration in a calm, textured linocut and watercolor style: a vast northern landscape at dusk, with a frozen lake in the foreground and a dark boreal forest on the far shore. Rising from the forest is an abstract structure of stacked translucent glass blocks, like a growing data centre made of light, glowing soft teal and gold from within. A single wide river of small golden coins flows across the ice toward the structure, splitting into several measured streams that pause at evenly spaced stone markers along the way, suggesting payments released in stages. Overhead, faint aurora ribbons in green and violet echo the shape of the glowing blocks. Palette of deep navy, pine green, warm gold, teal and a soft maple red accent in a few fallen leaves on the ice. No people, no faces, no hands, no flags, no logos, no brand marks, no buildings with signs, no screens, no documents, no letters, numbers or readable text anywhere. Wide 16:9 composition.
Produced by Maker Frontier · Image use & permissions

The image-generation model credited above made this illustration. It may differ from the model discussed in the article.