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Julie Menin is Speaker of the New York City Council, a Democrat and former city consumer affairs commissioner who presides over its 51 members.
SpaceX agreed to testify before the New York City Council on Friday after the council threatened to ask a judge to enforce its subpoena. No court filing is reported, so the threat has produced a witness and left enforcement untested.
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None of the four AI labs at New York City Council's Oct. 5 hearing raised a hand when Speaker Julie Menin asked who insured against catastrophic risk. A show of hands says little about what cover the labs actually hold, but Menin took it to mean the public would carry the cost of any AI catastrophe.
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NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin issued her first subpoena to SpaceXAI, ordering Elon Musk or a representative to testify at an October 5 AI safety hearing. For a company valued near $2 trillion, the larger exposure is the city bills on the agenda and the Grok lawsuits it already faces.
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Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo told the New York City Council under subpoena that AI labs may not know when their safety work has failed. All 51 members heard him while weighing Speaker Julie Menin's AI bills, and the council can make the labs answer under oath.
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New York City's full 51-member council meets on AI safety on Oct. 5, days after SpaceXAI was served a subpoena over non-compliance. Of the bills it will weigh, a right to sue over AI harm is the one that could reach a developer's income statement.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin's bills would let residents sue AI vendors over jailbroken tools, with all 51 members hearing them October 5. Tied to sales in the city, the duty would reach vendors ahead of any federal rule, though a pending Senate bill would likely override most state AI laws.
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The museum had read John Galliano's record and met Jewish leaders before naming him in July. What it had not measured was the reaction of donors and city officials, which arrived only once the choice was public.
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The pied-a-terre surcharge was the consensus piece of Mamdani's tax agenda. Its rollout, not its rate, is what now sits on high-end New York property.
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