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Bible Verses of the Day

15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. [Romans 8:15-17, ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 😯 Elon Musk says xAI acquired X

• 💫 Christian Business Spotlight

• 🗞️ AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

• 🌎️ Easy Cloud Partners

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock deal, he announced in a post on X Friday. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction,” Musk said.

“The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).” He went on to describe the two companies’ futures as “intertwined,” adding, “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.”

The acquisition places X — the highly influential social media platform Musk purchased in 2022 under its former name, Twitter — firmly under the umbrella of Musk’s AI startup, which he founded in 2023 to compete with OpenAI.

Christian Business Spotlight

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AI News

• 🎨 OpenAI pulls free GPT-4o image generator after one day (link)

• 🧬 Anthropic provides insights into the ‘AI biology’ of Claude (link)

• 🕷️ Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance (link)

• 📚️ Meta might’ve trained its AI models on not-yet-published books, too (link)

• 📶 Revolutionary blueprint to fuse wireless technologies and AI (link)

AI Tools

• 🤝 WAYUT: Create engaging employee-driven team building activities (link)

• 📫️ Mail Hugs: Automate email drafting, prioritization, and summarization (link)

• 🎦 Postless: Automate content creation and marketing videos (link)

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

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

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)

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Listen or read the following transcript as Sinclair Ferguson speaks on the first chapter of Ruth.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

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