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Bible Verses of the Day

49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” 50 And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. 51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple blessing God. [Luke 24:49-53, ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 🇨🇳 China’s humanoid robots stumble, break down, and finish the world’s first robot half marathon

• 🗞️ More AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

• 💫 Christian Business Spotlight

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

• 🌎️ Easy Cloud Partners

In Beijing this weekend, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra crossed a finish line that few imagined robots would even approach. It had fallen once, had its batteries swapped three times, and still took nearly three hours to run 13.1 miles. But it finished — a testament, of sorts, to the mechanical resolve of a machine designed to walk like us.

Thousands of spectators cheered. Some runners even stopped mid-race to take selfies with it. Not far behind — or rather, very far behind — other robots limped, wobbled, and sometimes simply collapsed during what organizers billed as the world’s first humanoid robot half marathon.

The event, a parallel race to the Beijing Yizhuang Half Marathon, marked a peculiar new chapter in China’s pursuit of “embodied intelligence” — meaning AI embedded in physical forms.

AI News

• 🌎️ xAI’s Grok chatbot can now ‘see’ the world around it (link)

• 🙊 The evolution of harmful content detection: Manual moderation to AI (link)

• 🗣️ Two undergrads built an AI speech model to rival NotebookLM (link)

• 🤖 Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-to videos (link)

• ❌ A Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive images (link)

AI Tools

• 👩‍🏫 The Librarian: Automate email, scheduling, and data retrieval tasks (link)

• 🎦 FramePack: Generate high-quality videos using AI locally (link)

• 🖥️ Repo Prompt: Optimize coding workflows with structured AI prompts (link)

• 🐋 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

• 🌐 Snov: Sales engagement on autopilot - we reach, you seal the deal (link)

Christian Business Spotlight

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📚️ Choice Academics - Academic counseling to help homeschoolers get into their dream college.

Easy Cloud News

• 🛡️ New! Easy Cloud Security - IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses (link)

• 📚️ New! Choice Academics - Academic consulting for Homeschoolers (link)

• ⛅️ Easy Cloud’s Services (link)

• 🗞️ Easy Cloud’s Latest News (link)

• 🐳 Easy Cloud’s Latest Product: Beluga (link)

Listen or read the following transcript as Steven Baugh draws from scriptural sources to illustrate how the Kingdom of God is both a present reality and a future hope, shaping Christian identity and mission in the world.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

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