Here’s the kitchen sink for July 18, 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 July 18, 2025 of a vacation shortened six stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 219 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.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT-powered browser is codenamed ‘Aura’: OpenAI’s open source model may be delayed indefinitely, but they’re busy with other things. Apparently, OpenAI is following Perplexity and is working on its own AI-powered browser codenamed “Aura.” X user Tibor found references to “Aura,” which is probably the codename for the new OpenAI browser. I guess their aura is mysterious! 😉

AI Summaries in Google Discover: Rethinking Information Governance, Discovery, and Security: As you may know, Google has launched AI-generated summaries in its Discover product, a personalized news feed widely accessible on Android and iOS devices. Here, Rob Robinson discusses the impacts on everything from cybersecurity risks and attack vectors to information governance and data lineage challenges to eDiscovery complexity and evidence preservation and more.

No Sanctions for Breach of Duty to Preserve Video, Due to Lack of Prejudice: Interesting case covered by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog which involves spoliation of video by defendants related to civil rights claims of an incarcerated plaintiff, involving “snail mail” as part of the reason defendants didn’t get the preservation notice in time, but the lack of prejudice to the plaintiff ultimately doomed their claim.

The $20 Test: What a Parking Lot Taught Me About AI and Legal Judgment: Judge Ralph Artigliere applies the “panel of experts” by another Ralph (Ralph Losey) to discuss the ethical question of a lawyer who spots a neatly folded $20 bill on the ground. The lawyer picks it up and looks around. No one is about. What should the lawyer do? Members of Ralph Losey’s AI-generated expert panel chooses various options identified by the prompt given by Judge Ralph Artigliere based on their unique perspectives, which Judge Ralph Artigliere then analyzes. Interesting stuff and probably the most occurrences of “Ralph” I’ve ever written in one paragraph. 😉

China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower: That’s no surprise. But how they’re spending that money is interesting. And it’s apparently working – they’re closing the gap on the US.

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT agent: It’s an OpenAI bookend edition! They may be working on a browser named “Aura”, but they have launched ChatGPT agent, a powerful AI tool that can perform complex, multistep tasks using “its own virtual computer.” Built on a custom model combining the company’s Operator and Deep Research tools, the new agent is capable of things such as creating slide decks and generating spreadsheets. It’s designed to work in the background and request confirmation before taking “actions of consequence,” like sending an email. Wow!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 18, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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