Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA

Americans are feeling pretty pessimistic about AI and its impact on employment.A new poll released by Quinnipiac University on Monday found that 70% of Americans believe that advancements in artificial intelligence will lead to a decrease in job opportunities generally.And 30% are concerned that their own jobs may be rendered obsolete.That marks a significant increase over the last year. In April 2025, the same pollster found that 21% of Americans said that they were worried that their job would become obsolete.That worry is relatively constant across age cohorts, but with some notable differences. Just 26% of Gen Z is concerned…

A Delaware judge who has overseen shareholder lawsuits against Elon Musk is removing herself from cases involving the Tesla CEO after his lawyers accused her of bias.Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, the top judge in Delaware Chancery Court, said in a Monday court filing that she would reassign three lawsuits involving Musk to different judges.The move follows a motion from Musk’s lawyers last week to remove McCormick from a set of Tesla shareholder lawsuits. They said McCormick and one of her employees reacted positively on LinkedIn to posts that were critical of Musk.In her filing Monday, McCormick maintained that she did not…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — President José Antonio Kast said Monday that his administration will tighten security measures at Chile’s schools, following two incidents involving weapons and amid growing concern about school violence in the South American country.The announcement follows a deadly attack Friday that left one dead and four wounded. The pledge also came on the same day that another student was detained while attempting to enter a school with a loaded firearm.“We are going to have to take certain measures to protect our students,” Kast said at an event at a school in the capital, Santiago. “These measures, which…

In a landmark decision, a California appeals court ruled that the West Contra Costa Unified School District violated state law by not doing enough to hire qualified teachers, sending a message to schools statewide that blaming vacancies on a teacher shortage is not a valid excuse. Cleare et. al v. WCCUSD is the first lawsuit filed to enforce the Williams Act, which guarantees a qualified teacher in every classroom, among other school standards. On Thursday, just two weeks after hearing oral arguments, the court found that the district didn’t exhaust all options before claiming compliance was “impossible.”“As we see it,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — “Push!” “Press!” “Good ball!”As the volunteer soccer coach shouted words of motivation, one of his players nudged the ball past the opposing team’s goalie and into the net, prompting the sideline to erupt in cheers. This was the scene Sunday in Portland, Oregon, at a soccer tournament its organizer dubbed the World Cup for immigrant and refugee girls. Community advocate Som Subedi, an immigrant from Bhutan, created the event to help provide a sense of joy and unity amid federal immigration enforcement operations that have affected players’ families. Suraya Abdull plays in a soccer tournament for…

Large language models trained on vast datasets could speed genomics research, streamline clinical documentation, improve real-time diagnostics, support clinical decision-making, accelerate drug discovery, and even generate synthetic data to advance experiments. But their promise to transform biomedical research often runs into a bottleneck: beyond the structured data healthcare relies on, these models struggle in edge cases like rare diseases and unusual conditions, where reliable, representative data is scarce. New York-based Mantis Biotech claims it’s developing the solution to fill this data availability gap. The company’s platform integrates disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to…

AI anxiety has made the internet nostalgic for older tech. So, I went on a mission to find out how much obsolete tech actually costs these days. Loading audio narration… While I may have scored cheaper gems on eBay or Facebook Marketplace, I decided to scour physical stores instead. Beyond the goal of finding old tech, my day spent combing for retro finds proved to me that younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha are indeed returning to analog — and showed why this might be.The “going analog” trend has gained traction this year among millennials and Gen Zers. From in-person…

AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs continue to climb. ScaleOps believes the problem isn’t a shortage — it’s mismanagement. The startup, which builds software that automatically manages and reallocates computing resources in real time, has raised $130 million at an $800 million valuation, ScaleOps said Monday. The Series C funding round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners, and Picture Capital. The company says its software reduces cloud and AI…

A 15-year-old student shot a teacher at a Texas high school and then fatally shot himself Monday, according to authorities, who were still investigating what led to the early morning attack.No other injuries were reported at Hill Country College Preparatory High School in Bulverde, a small but growing city near San Antonio.The teacher was taken to a nearby hospital. Comal County Sheriff Mark Reynolds said hours after the shooting that he did not know her condition. “What happened today is something no community ever wants to face, but we prepare for something that we hope never occurs,” Reynolds said.He said…

Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million. The latest funding infusion, which comes before a planned IPO later this year, was led by the Mirae Asset Financial Group and the Korea National Growth Fund. It also comes at the same time that the company is engaging in an aggressive expansion effort — with recently announced plans to grow its presence not only in Asia but also in the Middle East and the U.S. Founded in 2020, Rebellions develops and designs AI chips while…