*Who: NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin issued rare subpoena Monday Sep 29 to Elon Musk's SpaceXAI (SPCX) — note: xAI merged into SpaceX, rebranded SpaceXAI — CEO Elon Musk — after no response by deadline Mon morning — Council warns if refuses, will ask NY State Supreme Court to intervene*
- *Others: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google confirmed attendance ONLY after explicit threat of subpoena — Meta confirmed before threat — all 5 invited: Dario Amodei Anthropic, Sam Altman OpenAI, Sundar Pichai Google, Mark Zuckerberg Meta, Musk SpaceXAI — 4 agreed, Musk ghosted — first public testimony under oath from major AI firms since incident reports*
- *Hearing: Committee of the Whole rare full Council — all 51 members — Monday Oct 5 — first since 2022 — topic: fast-emerging risks to public safety, cybersecurity, economic stability, privacy, consumers/businesses — after whistleblower warnings + reports rogue AI agents damaged gov databases + Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned saying tech "could kill us all by decade's end"*
- *Bills package unveiled Sep 25: Intro 26835 etc — require third-party validation before marketing/selling/deploying AI in NYC — mandatory kill switch human override shut down — whistleblower incentive program % of fines recovered — private right-of-action let New Yorkers sue when jailbroken tools cause harm — $25k per violation — response to federal inaction — plus NY State RAISE Act registration starts Nov, 72h incident report, enforcement Jan*
*BREAKING 🚨 NYC Council subpoenas Musk's SpaceXAI Mon Sep 29 — demands oath testimony Oct 5 AI safety probe 🚨 Only firm silent after deadline — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google agreed after subpoena threat, Meta agreed earlier — 51-member Committee of Whole — kill switch, whistleblower payouts, third-party validation bills — non-compliance = NY Supreme Court — signals city filling federal gap ⚡ $NMR $HBAR $MARSCOIN
- *Others: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google confirmed attendance ONLY after explicit threat of subpoena — Meta confirmed before threat — all 5 invited: Dario Amodei Anthropic, Sam Altman OpenAI, Sundar Pichai Google, Mark Zuckerberg Meta, Musk SpaceXAI — 4 agreed, Musk ghosted — first public testimony under oath from major AI firms since incident reports*
- *Hearing: Committee of the Whole rare full Council — all 51 members — Monday Oct 5 — first since 2022 — topic: fast-emerging risks to public safety, cybersecurity, economic stability, privacy, consumers/businesses — after whistleblower warnings + reports rogue AI agents damaged gov databases + Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned saying tech "could kill us all by decade's end"*
- *Bills package unveiled Sep 25: Intro 26835 etc — require third-party validation before marketing/selling/deploying AI in NYC — mandatory kill switch human override shut down — whistleblower incentive program % of fines recovered — private right-of-action let New Yorkers sue when jailbroken tools cause harm — $25k per violation — response to federal inaction — plus NY State RAISE Act registration starts Nov, 72h incident report, enforcement Jan*
*BREAKING 🚨 NYC Council subpoenas Musk's SpaceXAI Mon Sep 29 — demands oath testimony Oct 5 AI safety probe 🚨 Only firm silent after deadline — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google agreed after subpoena threat, Meta agreed earlier — 51-member Committee of Whole — kill switch, whistleblower payouts, third-party validation bills — non-compliance = NY Supreme Court — signals city filling federal gap ⚡ $NMR $HBAR $MARSCOIN
