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Technology·Markets·Science
Thursday, September 3, 2026 Morning edition ≈ 6 min read

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
Business & markets

Broadcom's AI chip revenue more than triples to $16.7 billion in a record $29.6 billion quarter

The custom accelerator business has stopped being a side line and started carrying the company.

Broadcom said revenue for the quarter ended August 2 reached $29.6 billion, up 86 percent from a year earlier, with AI semiconductor revenue of $16.7 billion growing 221 percent year over year and 54 percent from the prior quarter. Semiconductor solutions contributed $20.839 billion and infrastructure software $8.752 billion, while free cash flow came to $13.7 billion, or 46 percent of revenue. Chief executive Hock Tan said demand for the company's custom AI accelerators and networking continues to be very strong. For the fourth quarter Broadcom guided to about $34.8 billion in revenue and $21.7 billion in AI semiconductor revenue, and declared a quarterly dividend of $0.65 per share payable September 30.

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.”

We can hold our own hopes loosely as we read numbers this large.

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Tech & AI →
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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with a 75 percent cut to cache read pricing

Cheaper long runs Input stays at $10 and output at $50 per million tokens while cache reads fall to $0.25 per million, and the company reports 52.6 percent on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 against Fable 5's 24.7 percent.

Scripture for Reflection

“I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.”

We can pair new capability with prudence in the work we do this week.

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Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash at introductory rates set to double next year

Priced to move The model arrived Wednesday at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, rates that are set to double in the new year, alongside a Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber variant tuned for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities.

Scripture for Reflection

“The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.”

We can keep learning carefully instead of chasing every new release.

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Business & Markets →
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Snowflake product revenue grows 37 percent to $1.49 billion and the full-year outlook rises

Outlook raised Total revenue reached $1.546 billion, up 35 percent, with a 126 percent net revenue retention rate and remaining performance obligations of $9.00 billion, and the company lifted its fiscal 2027 product revenue forecast to $6.070 billion.

Scripture for Reflection

“And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.””

We can welcome good numbers without letting them measure our worth.

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Science →
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A single unexplained event in the LZ dark matter detector reaches 2.6 sigma

Not yet a discovery The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, running 10 tonnes of liquid xenon nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, recorded one high-energy interaction across 220 live days of data taken between March 2023 and April 2024, well short of the five sigma physicists require.

Scripture for Reflection

“Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.”

We can examine a striking claim carefully before we call it settled.

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Star formation has more than halved while the universe's hydrogen supply barely moved

Not a fuel shortage Researchers combining China's FAST radio telescope with about 2.5 million galaxies surveyed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument found star formation roughly 2.5 times higher 4.5 billion years ago while neutral hydrogen was only about 1.4 times higher, in work published in Nature Astronomy.

Scripture for Reflection

“Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.”

We can let an unsolved puzzle in the sky renew our wonder.

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Letters to the King
You wrote that the LORD is your shepherd. What is the hardest part of being led rather than leading?
From the Baker's own shelf

The hardest part, friend, is the rod. Not the staff that hooks me out of the ravine, but the rod that taps my shoulder when I have found a path I like and it happens to be the wrong one. I was a boy with a sling and a whole hillside of my own opinions, and I learned that a shepherd's hands can be gentle and unarguable at the same time. Green pastures are pleasant enough. Being made to lie down in them is another matter, for I always reckoned I could graze a little longer. Yet every time He led me somewhere I would not have chosen, I found the water still, even when I was not. Follow Him into the valley too. He is not lost, and neither are you.

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