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A personal AI switchboard you can build this weekend: one router that sends routine work to a cheap model and hard reasoning to a frontier one, with a spend cap you set.
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Nvidia Moves to Backstop $250 Billion in Financing for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center
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Sunday Reflection: Teach Us to Ask
The parable of the friend at midnight commends the one thing our instant tools have trained out of us: the shameless persistence of asking a Person, not a machine.
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Saturday Tools: The Helper Comes to You
Three tools that stop making you go to a chat window and bring the agent to where you already work: Framer's canvas, ACME.BOT's interview, and Deck's inbox.
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Alphabet Lifts 2026 AI Capex Toward $205 Billion as Its Stock Falls 7%
Alphabet raised 2026 AI capex to as much as $205 billion and its stock fell 7% on a beat-and-raise quarter, the moment the market began pricing the wait.
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Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash Prices Agentic AI at $1.50 per Million Tokens
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash lands at $1.50 per million input tokens with built-in Computer Use, built for agents: but the cages meant to hold them leak.
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Huawei's Atlas 950 and the WAICO Charter: China Plants Its AI Flag in Shanghai
Huawei's Atlas 950 links 8,192 Ascend chips and 29 nations sign the WAICO charter as the World AI Conference closes in Shanghai, redrawing the AI map.
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Shav
The Hebrew word for emptiness or vanity, used in Psalm 127:1 to describe labor that succeeds at its task yet rests on nothing, the building done in vain when the builder forgets who keeps the house.
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Emunah
The Hebrew concept of steadiness, firmness, and faithfulness under load, the reliability that holds a thing in place over time.
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Agent Self-Verification
The pattern in which an agentic AI system runs its own pass of checks against its own output before it asks the operator to look.
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Hireling
The biblical figure of a paid laborer who guards a flock he does not own, contrasted in John 10 with the shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep; the type of every worker whose stake in the work ends when the wages stop.
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Embodied AI
Embodied AI is artificial intelligence placed inside a physical body, such as a humanoid robot or a four-legged robot dog, so that a model can sense and act in the real world instead of only producing text on a screen.
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Agent Client Protocol
An open protocol that lets AI coding agents communicate with editors and IDEs in a standardized way, so the same agent can run inside Cursor, Devin Desktop, Zed, or any other compliant client.
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