Here’s the kitchen sink for June 13, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for June 13, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 155 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, there’s a site that is tracking AI hallucination cases, so I will start showing an updated total weekly here.

US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks: Consider me concerned, especially in light of recent events (side note: my thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who died in the Air India flight this week). Are trains better? Not in San Francisco.

“Diligent Search,” But No Responsive Data Is Insufficient Response: Interesting case covered by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog, involving several forms of ESI, including Salesforce data, emails, Google voice data and Slack communications. The EEOC did a great job of showing how defendant’s search wasn’t as diligent as they claimed; for example, they discovered that Salesforce help materials show that Salesforce has a backup recovery system. Mike also has another great post here discussing how Secret Service agents caught a child sex abuser distributing CSAM.

OpenAI signs surprise deal with Google Cloud despite fierce AI rivalry: What’s next? Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria? 🤯

After 19 Years of Trying, She’s Pregnant—Thanks to AI: AI, you ARE the father! 🤣 Thanks to your technology that detects scarce sperm unnoticed by embryologists, that is. 😉

This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job: More job worries about AI and now this: Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.” At least we now have some companies admitting it.

New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems: Then again, maybe our jobs are safe (at least for a while). Two studies have found that simulated reasoning (SR) models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, achieved low scores on novel mathematical proofs. In the Apple study, they pitted the AI models against four classic puzzles and found the “models achieved mostly under 5 percent on novel mathematical proofs, with only one model reaching 25 percent, and not a single perfect proof among nearly 200 attempts.”

Balancing Innovation and Efficiency: A Winning Formula for Future-Ready Law Firms: Stephen Dooley’s article on the ACEDS blog is “preaching to the choir” when he says that “For legal technologists looking to make an impact, understanding this intersection of innovation and knowledge management is a game-changer.” He’s the Director of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Electronic Discovery & Litigation Support department, so I’d listen to him if I were you. 😁

“Yuck”: Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor revolt: And it’s not because they are concerned about their jobs – it’s because the AI summaries are redundant and not very good.

Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement: The suit, against Midjourney, is the first time major Hollywood companies have sued over AI-generated images. Gotta love this quote from the 110-page filing: “Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism”. If you look at the images included in the article, they’re pretty compelling. If the plaintiffs win, it could be “endjourney” for Midjourney. 😉

AT&T Repackaged Data Leak 2025: New Risks from Old Breaches: AT&T has had data breaches before, but this one (which could be from one or more old breaches) has “86 million unique records, including full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and nearly 44 million Social Security Numbers, all now in plain text.” 😬 Rob Robinson covers it on ComplexDiscovery.

The Legal Ops Advantage: Why Smart Lawyers Don’t Go It Alone: It’s a great week for content from industry thought leaders! This one from Angie Nolet (on the EDRM blog), who is a Senior Corporate Counsel of Litigation and eDiscovery and Co-Founder of the eDiscovery Chicks Podcast, on the importance of legal ops to a corporate lawyer. I’d listen to her too if I were you. 😊

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 13, 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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