TechCrunch Industry News Roblox CEO interview gets heated over child safety; X’s new About This Account feature is going great; and AI is too risky to insure
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Nov 25, 2025 In a heated interview, the Roblox CEO grappled with child safety questions while promoting a new age verification feature. Meanwhile, X's latest update revealed that many right-wing accounts are based outside the U.S., raising doubts about data accuracy. Major insurers are now pushing to exclude AI-related liabilities from policies due to concerns over unpredictable AI outputs, citing fears from previous mishaps that could lead to systemic risks in the industry.
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Face Scans As Age Gate
- Roblox will require face scans for users who want messaging access as part of age verification.
- The move signals a trade-off between user privacy friction and stronger child-safety controls on the platform.
Roblox CEO Pushes Back On Safety Focus
- Roblox CEO Dave Baszuki grew visibly frustrated when the interview kept returning to child safety questions about age verification.
- He emphasized wanting to discuss many topics and pushed back against focusing only on safety during the Hard Fork interview.
Verify Account Location Claims
- Treat X's new About This Account geographic tags as provisional until rollout bugs are fixed.
- Check user travel, VPNs, and historical IPs before concluding accounts are foreign or coordinated.