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Legislative body that held the oversight hearing on the surcharge rollout and declined to postpone it past the Aug. 31 court date.
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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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OpenAI's Morgan Dwyer told a New York City Council hearing the company backs the Warner-Budd workforce bill and will publish its own job-impact analysis. The bill would gather voluntary usage data by task, enough to map AI adoption but not to settle what it does to jobs.
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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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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 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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