Financial Times:
The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s flagship AI agency, plans to focus on defense, environment, and health, after staff criticized its leadership in December  —  Chief of Britain’s flagship AI agency says ‘big strategic’ shift is needed  —  Britain’s flagship artificial intelligence agency …

Lam Le / Rest of World:
A look at Shanghai municipal government-backed SpaceSail, a satellite internet company that has launched ~90 satellites so far and plans to have 15,000 by 2030  —  The Shanghai satellite company is launching deals in countries where Starlink, X or Tesla are creating friction.

Washington Post:
Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is unsettling Silicon Valley’s immigrant tech community, as tech companies tell employees on visas not to leave the US  —  Uncertainty around high-skilled visas is rattling the immigrant tech community in Silicon Valley long viewed as one of the key pillars of U.S. innovation.

John Xavier / The Hindu:
A survey of 1,450 verified Indian IT professionals by Blind: 83% reported experiencing burnout, with 72% saying they routinely exceed the 48-hour workweek limit  —  Organisations like Confluent, Intuit, UiPath, Adobe, Uber, InMobi, Salesforce, Walmart, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft lead the list …

Bloomberg:
With Switch 2, Nintendo must do what it has rarely done before: follow one hit console with another; Nintendo has sold 150M+ Switch units since launch in 2017  —  The Japanese gaming giant is about to release its latest console.  The stakes have never been higher to end the boom-bust cycle that’s plagued the company for years.

Marcus Hutchins / MalwareTech:
The US needs a new cybersecurity strategy, but offensive cyber operations are unlikely to deter Chinese state-sponsored hacking and come with significant risk  —  Ever since China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ hacking operations against US telecom networks was uncovered, there’s been a lot of discussion about “hacking back”.

The Economic Times:
Industry executives say Rapido has a 20% share in India’s four-wheeler ride-hailing segment; Uber has a ~50% share, while Ola holds most of the remaining 30%  —  Happy Tuesday!  India’s ride-hailing sector is experiencing significant disruption, with newer challengers entering the fray.

Zoë Schiffer / Wired:
USPTO suspended xAI’s Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to “Grok”  —  Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by GPT-4o, is now available to all users; Altman last week mentioned a limit of three images per day for free-tier users  —  OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, is now available to all users, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in recent weeks, Meta executives including Mark Zuckerberg have pressed US trade officials to oppose an impending EU fine and cease-and-desist order  —  Facebook owner presses trade officials to push back against European law that could undermine its ad business