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.
Work per watt Results presented at the Hot Chips conference show 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt than Nvidia Blackwell, though only engineering samples exist so far.
“but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.”
Vendor benchmarks invite belief before proof, and we can hold new claims lightly until independent results confirm them.
Marketplace closing The crowdsourced task platform that helped label data for the machine learning era now carries a notice saying it will permanently close on September 30, 2026.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.”
Familiar things end, and we can pray for the workers whose routines change as one season closes and another opens.
Compute in memory The 16 GB part reaches 614 GB/s in processing mode against 76.8 GB/s for standard DRAM, and cut a Llama-3.1-8B run from 12.3 seconds to 5.4 in Samsung's tests.
“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.”
Patient craftsmanship shows here, and we can bring that same care to the ordinary work in front of us today.
Open weights The 3B, 8B, and 30B models add native step-by-step reasoning and can be downloaded from Hugging Face, GitHub, and Ollama without licensing restrictions.
“The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.”
Open tools reward the curious, and we can keep seeking understanding rather than settling for what is easiest to reach.
Caps on teen accounts Facebook and Instagram will add default daily usage limits, overnight blocks, stronger age checks, and expanded parental controls, with payments spread annually over ten years.
“So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.”
Someone else is now counting the hours our children spend on a screen, and we can learn to number our own days wisely too.