NYC Council puts AI labs under oath as SpaceXAI skips

NYC Council: Senior leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath Monday at a New York City Council Committee of the Whole hearing on AI risks and proposed city safeguards, CNBC reported. The witnesses were Anthropic’s Logan Graham, OpenAI’s Morgan Dwyer, Google’s Alice Friend and Meta’s Shane Cahill, according to CNBC. Speaker Julie Menin said the firms owed the public answers “under oath,” a council press release said Sept. 28, when it announced the hearing. Opening Monday’s session, Menin said “the idea that artificial intelligence is going to self-regulate defies all reason,” CNBC reported. Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI skipped the council’s subpoena and did not appear Monday; the council had subpoenaed Musk or another SpaceXAI representative last week, CNBC said. Menin called the absence a “direct violation of the subpoena” and said the council plans to “pursue this matter in court,” according to CNBC. A Sept. 28 council release had said that if SpaceXAI failed to comply, the council could seek enforcement in New York State Supreme Court. The hearing also took up AI bills the council proposed Sept. 25.

Google open-source bug bounty: Google has temporarily stopped accepting product-vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program as of Oct. 1, Google Bug Hunters said on X. Supply-chain reports and outstanding reports are not affected, the post said. Google said the pause is due to “a significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid,” and that it will give an update in Q1 2027, BleepingComputer reported. TechCrunch tied the flood to AI-generated reports.

— Lark Pemberton