Here’s the kitchen sink for August 15, 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 August 15, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 275 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, there’s a site that is tracking AI hallucination cases, so I am showing an updated total weekly here.

Happy Anniversary to my beautiful wife, Paige! I love you honey! 💘

The 2025 Ediscovery Innovation Report: A Turning Point for Generative AI in Legal: Interesting report (a collaboration with Everlaw and ILTA) covered last week by Maribel Rivera on the ACEDS blog. 37% of legal professionals are already using generative AI in their daily workflows, a group made up predominantly of law firm respondents. By comparison, it took 10.75 years for cloud-based eDiscovery to get there. 🤯

Order for Phased Discovery: As Michael Berman wrote in this post on the EDRM blog: “The court wrote: If a case presents ‘a potentially dispositive threshold issue,’ courts have routinely allowed phased discovery to test the viability of a plaintiff’s individual claims before conducting costly and extensive discovery.”  So, the court decided to “bifurcate this case between the liability and damages phases”. Good topic.

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.: No jobs may be harder hit by AI than coders and computer scientists. One poor guy has applied for 5,762 tech jobs since he graduated in 2023 – 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers. Sad.

What’s Your Pink Cadillac? A Morning of Joy and Resilience at ILTACON 2025: Rob Robinson covers the excellent keynote address at ILTACON from Ryan Campbell, who flew around the world as a teenager, but later experienced a horrific tragedy and struggle when the engine of a vintage biplane engine failed shortly after takeoff, killing his passenger and leading to months of recovery for him and how he has overcome it and managed to find joy.

Criminal Conviction Reversed After State Failed to Timely & Fully Disclose its Use of a Type of Artificial Intelligence: A two-fer for Michael Berman this week on the EDRM blog. In short, withholding the fact that it had used facial recognition technology (‘FRT’) to identify the criminal defendant as the alleged perpetrator cost the State of Maryland a conviction.

YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”: Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube’s plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US, where YouTube could apply restrictions to users deemed to be under 18. Oh man! Should I stop watching all those SpongeBob videos now? 😉

Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 107 flaws: When you have a lot of software, you have a lot to fix: one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kerberos, thirteen “Critical” vulnerabilities, 44 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities, 35 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities, 18 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities, 4 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities and 9 Spoofing Vulnerabilities. Damn! 🤯

Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes: Because they don’t know why they do what they do. Simple as that.

Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.: According to recent research from McKinsey & Company, nearly eight in 10 companies have reported using generative A.I., but just as many have reported “no significant bottom-line impact.” Who are the winners so far? The suppliers of A.I. technology and advice, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Nvidia. 🤑

OpenAI adds new GPT-5 models, restores o3, o4-mini and it’s a mess all over again: To say that the rollout of GPT-5 has been rocky is an understatement. They’ve given us the “legacy” models back – at least while they try to make GPT-5 more acceptable to users.

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone: Remember the “winners” two posts ago? They’re also driving up our electricity bills: Nationally, the average electricity rate for residents has risen more than 30 percent since 2020, after years of relatively modest increases (some of it is catching up on deferred maintenance). It’s a power grab – literally. 😡

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for August 15, 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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