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Joel Bijlmer

Joel Bijlmer

Deals, Disputes, Guardrails: Legal AI’s Busy Week

$50M for Spellbook, Opus 2’s AI Grab and California Draws the First Chatbot Guardrails

Joel Bijlmer

Accountability Week: Audits, Guardrails, and the Push to Standardize AI

California Tightens AI Safety, Deloitte Refunds for AI Errors

Joel Bijlmer

Fraud Gets Smarter, Rules Get Sharper, and Contracts Turn into Data

Deepfakes in Courtrooms, One-Law Korea, $19M for Legal AI

Joel Bijlmer

Benchmarks, Buy-In, and a New Rulebook

How Legal AI Moved Up a Weight Class This Week

Joel Bijlmer

Google’s AI Overviews Sued, Chatbots on a Leash, Creators at the Table

Penske Sues Google’s AI, California Targets Chatbots, UK ‘Grips’ Copyright

Joel Bijlmer

Studios vs. Midjourney, Laws on Ice, Tariffs in Limbo

and an AI-Only Legal Deal

Joel Bijlmer

AI Beats “Average,” Hacks Go End-to-End, Grads Get Squeezed

And Who Pays Publishers?

Joel Bijlmer

China’s AI Moonshot Meets a 95% Pilot Failure Rate

Colorado Backs Off; MIT Says 95% Fail, What’s Your Plan?

Joel Bijlmer

Courtroom Hallucinations, Teen Safety Tests, and a $9B Bet on AI

From Courtroom Misfire to $9B Data Push

Joel Bijlmer

Tesla Fined, Westlaw Levels Up, Harvey Hits $100M

Tesla Fined $200M, Legal AI Hits $100M ARR, And the Tool Aiming to Reinvent Due Diligence

Joel Bijlmer