Senior executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath at a rare Committee of the Whole session of the New York City Council on October 5, convened by Speaker Julie Menin to examine AI risks.

Anthropic sent Logan Graham, head of its Frontier Red Team; OpenAI sent policy development chief Morgan Dwyer; Google's Alice Friend and Meta's Shane Cahill appeared. All four companies agreed to appear only after the council threatened subpoenas.

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI was the lone no-show — the council says it is in direct violation of its subpoena and plans to pursue enforcement in New York State Supreme Court. No laws passed; roughly ten proposed oversight measures on testing validation, incident reporting and liability were discussed alongside the FTC's parallel agent investigation.