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Technology·Markets·Science
Friday, September 25, 2026 Morning edition ≈ 5 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

Akamai signs an $11.6 billion, seven-year computing agreement with Anthropic

The contracts behind artificial intelligence are now longer than most corporate strategies, and larger than most balance sheets.

Akamai Technologies announced an $11.6 billion contractual commitment from Anthropic over seven years, aimed at the AI company's accelerating CPU workload demands on Akamai Cloud's distributed infrastructure. Alongside the contract, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for non-voting convertible Series B preferred stock representing 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, or up to roughly 5 percent of Akamai's outstanding common stock, at an exercise price of $111.33 per share; about 2 percent of that vests with the announced commitment. The two companies may extend the relationship by up to $9 billion more over the same term, which Akamai describes as a total potential commitment of approximately $20 billion. Chief executive and co-founder Tom Leighton said Anthropic is advancing the AI revolution and that the company chose Akamai's capabilities for building and operating AI infrastructure at scale.

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 quietly move what we trust, so we can ask today where our own hope is anchored.

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Tech & AI →
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Google prepares to put its first AI chips in orbit

Chips in orbit Google's Project Suncatcher will fly Trillium TPUs to low Earth orbit next week aboard a SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare, testing with partner Planet Labs how the hardware handles radiation and thermal extremes.

Scripture for Reflection

“For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.”

As we send our machines higher, we can let the sky above them renew our own sense of wonder.

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Business & Markets →
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Costco closes fiscal 2026 with $297.2 billion in net sales

Fourth quarter strength Net sales rose 11.2 percent to $93.9 billion in the quarter ended August 30, and full year net income reached $9.226 billion, or $20.76 per diluted share.

Scripture for Reflection

“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.””

Abundance on a shelf is easy to want more of, so we can practice being content with what we already have.

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Darden's LongHorn leads a 5.1 percent sales quarter

Steakhouse out front Total sales reached $3.2 billion with blended same-restaurant sales up 3.1 percent, as LongHorn Steakhouse grew 6.2 percent and Olive Garden added 1.1 percent.

Scripture for Reflection

“Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”

Steady quarters are built out of ordinary days, and we can be faithful in the small work in front of us.

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Science →
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NASA selects PRIMA as its first Probe Explorer mission

Far infrared first The 5.9 foot telescope moves into Phase B with a $1.2 billion project cost cap and a targeted 2033 launch for a five year mission.

Scripture for Reflection

“Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

A telescope built to see what is hidden can prompt us to lift our own eyes tonight.

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Letters to the King
How do you tell the difference between godly ambition and plain wanting?
From the Baker's own shelf

I have known both, and I knew them in the same lifetime. When I carried bread to my brothers in the valley and saw the giant, something rose in me that wanted the name of God honored. When I walked my roof one evening and saw what was not mine, something rose in me that only wanted. The two feel alike at the start, friend. They part company at the question of who gets smaller. Godly ambition makes room: it can be shared, it can wait, it can be handed to another man's son and still be good. Plain wanting cannot bear to be shared, cannot bear to wait, and always needs one more thing before it will rest. So test your desire the slow way. Tell it to someone who loves you, and watch whether you flinch in the telling. Ask whether it would still be worth doing if your name were left off the stone. Then notice what it does to the people nearest you, for holy ambition tends to feed them and plain wanting tends to bill them. I wanted to build the temple. The answer was no. I gathered the cedar and the iron anyway and left them for Solomon, and that was the first honest ambition I ever had, because it was the first one I would not live to see finished.

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