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Here is the kitchen sink for January 31, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Anthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errors: Sounds promising! Then again, it isn’t available for all of Anthropic’s models — only Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku. And the feature isn’t free. Hey, you want AI accuracy, you gotta pay for it! 😉

Request to Appoint Neutral Forensic Expert Denied as Speculative and Unsupported: Michael Berman covers a case on the EDRM blog where the pro se plaintiff alleged “discrepancies in the timestamps of some of the emails produced by Costco as part of the discovery.” The Court asked Costco to explain it, which they did by explaining that the emails were produced in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (a standard in eDiscovery) which is four hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (EST). The plaintiff didn’t buy it and accused Costco of scheming. More hijinks followed. Expect us to cover this case soon!

AI security posture management will be needed before agentic AI takes hold: The last paragraph sums up why this is important: “Far sooner than we think we’ll be entering the era of large, interconnected AI bot frameworks woven together with disparate APIs where bots themselves will be the causes of data breaches. We need to develop tooling to scan and monitor them at scale across disparate vendors, so they don’t yet become another ghost asset.”

Chevron Joins Race to Generate Power for A.I.: The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services, giving new meaning to the saying: “Now we’re cooking with gas!” 😉

The Human Edge: How AI Can Assist But Never Replace: Great article from Ralph Losey on the EDRM blog with an in-depth look at why AI will never replace humans. My favorite section is how Ralph discusses how AI helps in medicine, in education and (of course!) in law. And Ralph’s AI-generated pictures are always amazing.

Generative AI for Lawyers: From Fear to Functionality, How Lawyers Can Ethically Integrate AI into Their Practice: The title caught my attention, and the in-depth article by Mark C. Palmer (via the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, aka 2Civility.org), delivers! 😊

Healthcare Data Security: Insights from UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare Breach: As Rob Robinson notes on ComplexDiscovery, “The 190 million American citizens impacted by a data breach involving UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare division signifies one of the most wide-reaching cybersecurity incidents in the United States” (emphasis added). That’s more than half of all Americans! Yeesh! 😩 Chances are, you’re affected if you live in the US.

The Shifting E-Discovery Landscape: From Artificial Intelligence to Antitrust: Ari Kaplan “re-kaps” (that joke ever gets old! 🤣) a recent webinar on the ACEDS blog, talking about client service in eDiscovery, antitrust, deploying AI in litigation and more!

DeepSeek AI Database Exposed: Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked: This story came out after my DeepDive into DeepSeek earlier this week. Hey, these days, you’re not an official company until you’ve been hacked at least once! Congratulations? 🤔

Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965: The US Copyright Office issued AI guidance this week that declared no laws need to be clarified when it comes to protecting authorship rights of humans producing AI-assisted works. At least for now, the office says that prompting alone isn’t authorship, but that decision could change if AI technologies provide more human control over outputs through prompting. Oh, and they “drafted a lengthy, quirky prompt about a cat reading a Sunday newspaper to compare different outputs from the same AI image generator.” 😕

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 31, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Which story is your favorite one? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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