Gabriela Castillo Madrid, SpaceX's AI policy leader, is set to testify by video on Friday at 10 a.m. ET before the New York City Council's tech committee in its AI safety investigation. SpaceX initially evaded requests and a subpoena to appear on Oct. 5 alongside leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, but agreed to testify after the council threatened judicial enforcement. The council aims to use the testimony to guide new regulations. SpaceX, which merged with xAI in February and controls the Grok model, went public in June and is valued at about $2 trillion. UK lawmaker Jess Asato, who is suing xAI over sexualized images created by Grok users, criticized SpaceX's “arrogance” for skipping the earlier hearing.
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