Philip Heller

* Colorado’s AI law reset is today’s most important governance signal. Axios Denver reported that Colorado lawmakers are moving to scrap and replace the state’s first-in-the-nation AI law with a new framework focused on automated decision-making systems used for consequential decisions in areas like employment, housing, education, financial

* AI anxiety is the weekend’s public-sentiment story. A Reddit thread today pushed renewed attention to reporting on the Stanford 2026 AI Index and growing public anxiety around AI. The underlying article is from April, but the fact that it is resurfacing hard today matters: the AI backlash is no

* Microsoft just put a legal agent directly inside Word. Microsoft announced Legal Agent in Microsoft Word on April 30, 2026, available in the U.S. through the Microsoft 365 Copilot Frontier program. Technically, this is not a traditional standalone “plugin”; it appears inside Copilot in Word and requires Frontier access.

* Government AI just moved another step deeper into procurement reality. The Pentagon said today it reached deals with Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection, and SpaceX to use AI on classified systems to “augment warfighter decision-making.” That matters because it further normalizes frontier-model vendors as part of defense infrastructure. At