Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project

China’s economic growth slowed sharply between the start of April and end of June as weak demand domestically and the impact of the Iran war on oil prices overshadowed the country’s strong exports. Official gross domestic product (GDP) figures showed that the world’s second largest economy grew in the second quarter of the year by…

American AI chip startup SambaNova said Wednesday it had been valued at $11 billion, in a $1 billion fundraising round announced at the Raise Summit industry event in Paris. The company’s juiced valuation highlights the growing importance of its specialist area of AI “inference”, the process by which AI models generate a response to users’…

AI has become synonymous with accelerating scientific discovery. Across the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, organizations are investing heavily in AI to analyze clinical data and shorten development timelines. Yet a quieter transformation is underway. As scientific knowledge expands at an unprecedented pace, many life sciences organizations are discovering that their greatest challenge is no…

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Mohali, India — The Punjab government has launched the Punjab Investor Circle and Startup Punjab Hub–Neuron 2.0, two initiatives aimed at improving startups’ access to investment, deep-tech incubation, advanced skilling and technology infrastructure across the state. Punjab Industries and Commerce Minister Aman Arora launched the initiatives on July 9, 2026, at the Institute of Nano…