Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics to move data in chips via light, unveils an interposer and chiplet for AI chips; the startup has raised $850M so far (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics to move data in chips via light, unveils an interposer and chiplet for AI chips; the startup has raised $850M so far  —  Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips.

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 (Financial Times)

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 …

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 (Washington Post)

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.

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 (John Xavier/The Hindu)

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 …

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 (Bloomberg)

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.

The US needs a new cybersecurity strategy, but offensive cyber operations are unlikely to deter Chinese state-sponsored hacking and come with significant risk (Marcus Hutchins/MalwareTech)

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”.

USPTO suspended xAI’s Grok trademark application, saying the name could be confused with companies Groq and Grokstream; startup Bizly claims rights to “Grok” (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

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.

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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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 …