News and Scripture, paired story by story.

Technology

AI, chips, and the machines reshaping the world.

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

TSMC reports September revenue of NT$511.86 billion, up 54.6% from a year earlier

Foundry demand holds The chipmaker reported NT$511.857 billion in September net revenue, down 0.6% from August but 54.6% above September 2025, bringing January through September revenue to NT$3,898.727 billion, a 41.1% rise.

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 bring the same care to our own daily work, whatever its scale.

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Microsoft opens Surface Laptop Ultra preorders at $2,599, available from October 16

Preorders open The 15-inch laptop pairs an NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip with up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, and a $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box ships in November.

Scripture for Reflection

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Matthew 6:21 · BSB

A new tool is worth weighing against what we already own and actually need.

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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with tiered token pricing

Prices by prompt size Haiku 5.5 is listed at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens, rising to $0.50 and $2.50 above that threshold.

Scripture for Reflection

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

Proverbs 18:15 · BSB

New tools still leave the discernment to us.

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OpenAI extends GPT-6 and its Intelligent UI to free ChatGPT tiers

Interactive answers Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users received GPT-6 Sol on October 7 and the Free and Go tiers received GPT-6 Luna the next day, alongside a format that can answer with graphics, forms, charts and tappable buttons rather than text alone.

Scripture for Reflection

“For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

Proverbs 2:6 · BSB

As answers get slicker, we can keep asking where real understanding comes from.

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