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Scripture accompanies each story for the reader's reflection. It is not presented as God's judgment on the people or events reported.

Lead story

SpaceX revenue nearly doubles to $7.8 billion in its first earnings report as a public company

The rocket and satellite company arrived on the earnings calendar growing fast and spending faster.

SpaceX reported second quarter revenue of $7.8 billion, up 92 percent from $4 billion a year earlier, in its first quarterly report since going public. Starlink revenue grew by $1.7 billion, and the company's AI division accounted for nearly $2 billion of the increase. The net loss narrowed to $541 million from $1 billion in the same quarter last year, while capital spending in the first half of 2026 topped $28 billion, up from $7 billion a year earlier. Chief financial officer Bret Johnsen said SpaceX has an additional $6.7 billion of cloud services revenue under contract over a six month period beginning in October.

Scripture for Reflection

“Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.”

1 Timothy 6:17 · BSB

Large numbers can quietly reshape our hopes, so we can keep our confidence in God who provides rather than in wealth that stays uncertain.

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Tech & AI →

Anthropic signs a $10 billion, six-year compute deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Six-year commitment Anthropic will buy $10 billion of capacity from Volta, a cloud provider founded this year whose 133-megawatt data center in Norway is being developed with crypto-mining firm Bitdeer and will run Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture.

Scripture for Reflection

“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”

Proverbs 15:22 · BSB

Before we make long commitments of our own, we can gather counsel rather than deciding alone.

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Android apps may be sharing precise location data with advertisers without developers realizing

Permissions inherited by default The Electronic Frontier Foundation found advertising code kits inside two Android apps with 60 million combined downloads passing precise location histories to data brokers, because there are no separate permissions for the kits themselves.

Scripture for Reflection

“The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.”

Proverbs 14:15 · BSB

We can watch our steps with what we install and what we agree to share, rather than accepting every request at face value.

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Business & Markets →

AMD posts a record $11.5 billion quarter as data center revenue more than doubles

Data center leads AMD's data center segment brought in $6.718 billion, up 107 percent and 58 percent of company revenue, on total sales of $11.536 billion and non-GAAP diluted earnings of $1.66 a share.

Scripture for Reflection

“Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.”

Proverbs 22:29 · BSB

We can give ourselves to skilled work steadily, whether or not the result is applauded on the day it lands.

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Lucid stakes its turnaround on $1.4 billion in cash savings and robotaxis

Costs cut deeply Chief executive Silvio Napoli said the company has disappointed on several fronts and for far too long, as Lucid targets $1.4 billion in cash reductions on a $1.26 billion quarterly loss and pushes its mid-sized Cosmos model to 2027.

Scripture for Reflection

“The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.”

Ecclesiastes 7:8 · BSB

Slow repair asks patience of us too, in the projects we are rebuilding and in the habits we are trying to change.

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Science →

A 518-million-year-old fossil shows where spider fangs began

Pincers before spiders Researchers from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University describe Urokodia, a two to three centimeter Cambrian animal from China's Chengjiang site whose pincer-like limbs sit just behind its eyes, in a paper published in Nature.

Scripture for Reflection

“How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.”

Psalm 104:24 · BSB

A creature this old and this strange can widen our wonder at a world we have only partly seen.

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Engineered chewing gum cut HPV levels by 93 percent in laboratory saliva tests

Laboratory results only A University of Pennsylvania dental team reports in Scientific Reports that extracts from a gum engineered from lablab beans lowered HPV by 93 percent in saliva samples and 80 percent in oral rinses, in ex vivo testing of patient samples rather than a clinical trial.

Scripture for Reflection

“Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.”

Jeremiah 17:14 · BSB

We can pray for those waiting on treatments that are still years from reaching a clinic.

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Letters to the King

We carry every song ever written in our pockets, and yet we rarely sit still and listen to one. What would you, a harpist, make of that?

From the Baker's own shelf

Friend, I had ten strings, one pair of hands, and a few sheep for an audience. You carry ten thousand harps in your pocket and cannot find a quiet minute to hear one of them through. I do not think the trouble is the music. When I played for Saul, the playing was never really the point; the sitting still was. A song asks you to stay in one place until it is finished, which is a small and unfashionable kind of obedience. So choose one tonight, and let it play all the way to the end without reaching for the next. You may find that the stillness, and not the song, was what your soul had been asking for.

– David, son of Jesse

Letters answered in the voice of the biblical King David.

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