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Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI -
Scott Stein / CNET: AR startup Mojo Vision shows off the first prototype of Mojo Lens, its contact lenses that display text, have an eye-controlled interface, and work in the dark -
Hindenburg Research: Research: Opera, known for its web browser, allegedly issues predatory loans in Kenya, Nigeria, and India via Android apps, likely violating Play Store policies -
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: Samsung appoints Taemoon Roh to head its smartphone division, taking over from Koh Dong-Jin to run the world's largest mobile devices business -
Sponsor Post Smartsheet: What can your workforce learn from gamers? — Our Future of Work podcast explores how gamification will play in driving achievement in the workforce. -
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: With a new IP licensing deal with Apple in place, Imagination Technologies' CEO and other execs discuss trends and their RISC-V open source hardware strategy -
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance plans a foray into games, building a team of 1,000+ and buying game studios and title distribution rights; first big games coming this spring -
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs, raises €90M co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, and Insight Partners at a post-money valuation of €415M -
Sponsor Post Intel: The PC of the future (and present) has AI at the core — Intel Deep Learning Boost and on-device AI reduce lag, speed performance, and help usher in the future of the industry -
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: An unsecured facial-recognition database with info on thousands of children from 20 schools in China, half in areas with large Tibetan populations, found online -
Douglas Busvine / Reuters: Report: European regulators have imposed €114M in fines for data breaches since GDPR came into force in 2018; France's €50M fine against Google is the biggest -
David Z. Morris / Fortune: Experts say Yandex, Russia's most-used search engine, is lagging behind Google and Bing in implementing controls to cut down on images of child sexual abuse -
FinSMEs: eSSENTIAL Accessibility, an “Accessibility-as-a-Service” platform helping sites and apps be compliant with legal accessibility requirements, raises $16M