Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA

A woman alleges child abuse rings found her on Discord and Instagram as a teen, then blackmailed her into sending them nude and self-harm photos that they shared across the internet—leaving her with mental and physical scars.Now she’s suing both tech companies in a case her lawyers hope will be a “watershed moment” for holding social media sites accountable, as the FBI warns parents about a rising network of online extortion groups targeting kids.The anonymous plaintiff made the allegations in a previously unreported lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court in April.The suit names three groups — CVLT, 764, and…

Sam Altman said AI won’t usher in the golden age of the four-hour workweek.In an interview with host Ti Morse on his “Relentless” podcast, released on Saturday, the OpenAI CEO talked about why AI has not led to shorter workweeks for most people.”Technology, for a long time, has been promising people that they’re going to work less and they’re going to have all this leisure,” Altman said.He said this trend has played out to some extent, with people having more time for leisure than at previous points in history and a higher quality of life.”But somehow we never get the…

Mercor’s interview process is less vibe coding, more whiteboarding. On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Saturday, Mercor’s head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home assignments that can be completed with AI.”We’ll do one round where we find out if the person is familiar with AI tools,” he said. “We care a lot about being able to set up good experiments and understanding statistics, having good judgment, and then systems design as well,” he said, referring to what is asked in whiteboarding sessions.Whiteboard interviews, where candidates draw and explain…

Less than a week after Ukraine appointed its new commander in chief, a premium X account posing as the popular general has already racked up nearly 7,000 followers.The account @Drapatyi_M, which was created this month, has been on a tear since Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi was named Ukraine’s new military chief on Tuesday, posting at least 22 times in the last five days.Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces confirmed on Sunday that the account was illegitimate and posted a list of Drapatyi’s “only official pages.” @Drapatyi_M wasn’t among them.Повідомляємо, що єдиними офіційними сторінками Головнокомандувача Збройних Сил України генерал-майора Михайла…

China’s largest semiconductor IPO on record instantly produced the mainland market’s most valuable listed company, highlighting investors’ enthusiasm for Beijing’s AI ambitions.Shares of CXMT Corp., China’s largest maker of DRAM memory chips, surged over 500% in under two hours of trade in their debut in Shanghai on Monday.The company previously known as ChangXin Memory Technologies raised 57.92 billion Chinese yuan, or about $8.6 billion, with proceeds potentially rising to 66.6 billion yuan if an overallotment option is fully exercised. It was China’s second-largest mainland IPO on record, behind Agricultural Bank of China’s 2010 offering.At the opening price of 49.50 yuan…

The frontier of physical AI is a Jenga game in a warehouse in San Leandro, California. That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tooling used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is a pilot—the company’s term for its robotic trainers—and he’s carefully pulling wooden blocks from a tottering tower while wearing a headset with a camera that tracks what he sees. That alone is fairly common for collecting robot training data, but this headset includes sensors that measure his brain waves as he carefully disassembles the block tower. Encord is one of a small but growing…

The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company — Moonshot AI’s Kimi — reignited debates around American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. While there was plenty of conversation on social media, it seems the debate is also happening behind the scenes in Washington, D.C., where OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly lobbied regulators with concern about open Chinese models. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed why this seems to be such a hot button issue. Beyond suggesting that certain folks should “touch grass” rather than spending their weekends…

OpenAI’s CEO says we’ve reached a point in the AI race that is the stuff of science fiction novels.”We are now, like, in the singularity,” Sam Altman said on Saturday’s episode of the “Relentless” podcast.The singularity is often regarded as the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins advancing at a pace that’s difficult for people to predict or control.That felt like the case last week when an AI agent powered by OpenAI’s latest models went rogue and — with a singular purpose, according to OpenAI — broke out of its digital sandbox and hacked into datasets…

After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face, Hugging Face’s CEO Clem Delangue posted on X that he was flying to San Francisco to have “a little chat with that ‘rogue agent.’” Then, in a follow-up post on Saturday, Delangue outlined what he’d asked for from OpenAI. He said he called for “radical transparency,” asking OpenAI to “release the traces from the ‘rogue’ agents so the entire research community can study what happened.” And he also wants “more capabilities for defenders,” calling for OpenAI to commit $100 million worth of…

As a tech writer, I’ve used hundreds of headphones and earbuds. I review dozens each year for various publications, including top options from Apple, Bose, and Sony. But while I’ve tested cans from all the major players in the mainstream market, I haven’t really dabbled much in the luxury space.So when I got the chance to try out Bang & Olufsen’s $2,200 Beoplay H100 wireless headphones, I was excited. Could these premium headphones really offer something that $500 models can’t match? Could their high-end design, convenient extra features, and top-tier performance really justify their sky-high price?As I started my testing,…