Senator launches inquiry into 8 tech giants for failures to adequately report CSAM
2026-04-10T20:51:58Z•5b20d7ce3297b0cd42cec40dda207f3b078147804873349356f971c59656b258
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What happened
A set of high-profile developments: a U.S. senator has opened an inquiry into eight major tech firms after NCMEC flagged inadequate reporting of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and broader generative-AI data deficiencies; the U.K. regulator Ofcom is threatening jail time for tech executives over AI “nudification” tools following the Grok scandal; Drift was hit by a $280M crypto theft that investigators tie to North Korean fake companies and cutouts; Florida authorities are probing OpenAI and ChatGPT’s potential role in a deadly shooting amid threatened civil litigation; and the U.K. exposed
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