David's Daily Bread
News and Scripture each morning. Practical tools each evening. Loved by God.

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

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Business & markets

Nvidia enlists six investment firms to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI compute

The chipmaker wants AI computing treated as an asset class that institutional money can finance.

Nvidia said Monday it is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent compute financing platforms intended to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital over time. The platforms are designed to create dedicated pools of capital at scale for Nvidia customers building AI infrastructure, including frontier AI labs, enterprises and AI cloud providers. Chief executive Jensen Huang said in the announcement that "in AI, compute is revenue," arguing that Nvidia systems are broadly adopted, transferable across customers and operators, and continuously improved through CUDA software.

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.”

Numbers this large can unsettle us, so we can steady our hope in God rather than in any market's certainty.

Tech & AI
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Anthropic, Macquarie and GIC launch Theseus Infrastructure for dedicated data centers

Anchor tenant Funds managed by Macquarie Asset Management and GIC will own the platform and provide most of the equity for each US site, with Anthropic leasing the capacity long term.

Scripture for Reflection

“Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.”

As new things are built around us, we can remember our own call to tend and keep the places we are given.

Business & Markets
Science
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Experimental pill aleniglipron cut body weight up to 12.1% in a 36-week trial

Oral option The randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 230 adults across 38 US medical centers reported 12.1% weight loss at the highest dose against 0.5% for placebo, published in Nature Medicine.

Scripture for Reflection

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

As new treatments arrive, we can pray for the people we know who are still waiting on healing.

Letters to the King
Our work is counted in numbers now, and we can watch the tally rise and fall all day long. What would you say to someone who cannot stop checking?
From the Baker's own shelf

Beloved, I once numbered what was not mine to number, and I learned what a tally costs when it is taken for the comfort of the one who counts. Hear a shepherd first and a king second. The sheep were counted at evening, once, and then the counting was set down and the harp was taken up. A number can serve you like a lamp on a dark path, but a lamp held against your eyes all night will only blind you. So build a fence around the checking: look in the morning, look at dusk, and in the hours between do the work itself, which no tally has ever done for you. And when your hand reaches for the count a seventh time in an hour, let it reach instead for someone who needs you, and see whether the ache does not quiet. You are not the sum of your figures. You were loved before the first one was posted, and you are loved still when the last one falls.

– David, son of Jesse
Letters answered in the voice of the biblical King David.
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