This week another tech hearing on Capitol Hill.

Now what?

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dromale.

This week was hardly a slow one on the tech beat.

Companies vying for AI dominance have told us their stories,

but this week they showed us their numbers.

And there is a clear front runner.

Plus, a court struck down Elon Musk's 56 billion dollar pay

package but it's Musk's announcement that his startup Nuralink has made its

first human brain implant that really had a scratching our heads.

First, though, a look back at Wednesday's Senate Committee hearing that placed

tech executives, politicians, and families affected by child sexual abuse online together on Capitol Hill.

If you watch this week and review on YouTube, you know that we start with a number we call

our bite of the week. Reuters breaking views columnist Anita Ram Aswami kicks us off.

The number that I chose is five and that's the number of CEOs from big tech companies

that were called into Congress to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee

about how they're addressing child safety on their platforms.

So those five CEOs were from Meta, from Tik-Toc, Snap, Discord, and X, formerly Twitter.

Yeah, and only two of the five appeared of their own volition.

It's worth noting the rest had to be served with government-issued subpoenas before they would testify.

And a noticeable absence also was YouTube, which of course is owned by Google.

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