During the October 5, 2026, NYC Council Committee of the Whole hearing, Speaker Julie Menin posed a question that bypassed standard industry safety rhetoric. She asked representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta to raise their hands if their companies carried insurance against catastrophic AI risks. Not a single hand went up. Menin’s response was … Continue reading NYC Council Hearing Exposes AI Containment Failures and Liability Gaps