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Phil HellerMy personal Substack for thinking orthogonally about AI and legal.
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MapQuest Reminds Us What Maps Are For
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MapQuest’s decision to keep calling Lake Ontario by its longstanding name is easy to reduce to a political gesture or marketing gimmick. It is more consequential than that.
On August 27, President Trump ordered federal agenci...
Rewatching Terminator 2: Judgment Day on August 29, 2026
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991
People remember the robots, the time travel, and the nuclear apocalypse scheduled for August 29, 1997. But strip those away and the movie’s actual future is much less fantastic.
A corporation develops a br...
Waiting to Exhale: The Only Metric that Matters
Waiting to Exhale, Loretta Devine, Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon
Every new AI release arrives with numbers.
A benchmark rises. A model uses fewer tokens. A task completes faster. An agent can take more steps. A company says...
The California AI Transparency Act
California AI Transparency Act (CAITA, SB 942/AB 853)
What Matters Today
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The first phase of the California AI Transparency Act (CAITA, SB 942/AB 853) is now in effect. (calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org)
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It applies to publicly a...
All the Books in the World
The burning of the Library of Alexandria, Egypt
Anthropic reportedly spent tens of millions of dollars buying millions of physical books, slicing off their bindings with machines, separating their pages for high-speed scanning, and sending...
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