Here’s the kitchen sink for September 5, 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 September 5, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 332 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.

When Does a Final Judgment Constitute Denial of a Motion That Was Not Expressly Denied?: When the court grants a summary judgment motion, as discussed Michael Berman’s case of the week, published on the EDRM blog. Bye-bye plaintiff’s Rule 56(d) motion!

Perplexity AI to share search revenue with publishers: I was perplexed (see what I did there?) by the surprising news that an AI company is willing to share revenue until I saw they want publishers to participate in a subscription service to be rolled out in the coming months. We’ll see if this takes off.

How Law Schools Are Preparing Students to Use Gen AI: Drop the “How” in this title and it becomes a big headline! 😉 Seriously, though, it’s good to see that some law schools are embracing GenAI education. Hopefully, that includes what NOT to do (e.g., the AI hallucination stat above).

The Front Door of eDiscovery: Forensic Pricing Insights from the Summer 2025 eDiscovery Survey: Rob Robinson remains the only person who can get eDiscovery professionals talking about pricing! 😁 He is rolling out the survey results over multiple posts, including demographics here and here.

Processing, Hosting, and Project Management Pricing: The Engine Room of eDiscovery in the Summer 2025 Survey: More pricing data from Rob – the title makes it self-evident which components. More to come next week!

Legal Tech Battles to Set Itself Apart From General AI Models: Interesting article with some comparisons of the use of general AI models (like ChatGPT) with use of legal-specific tools to accomplish those same functions and whether the general AI tools will add more legal specific functions. As the authors note, legal techs can stay ahead by focusing on privacy, security and being diligent about telling the market that their systems are secure – the key differentiator, IMO.

5 ways to fill the AI skills gap in your business: AI may be taking jobs, but it’s also creating opportunities. Organizations need people with AI skills – in one survey, almost twice as many technology leaders (51%) compared with last year (28%) said their business has an AI skills shortage. Opportunity knocks!

I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned about the future of education: An Oxford lecturer on media and AI asked an AI tutor agent to teach him a personal master’s course, based entirely on his own work, and it apparently did a really good job. I wonder what an agentic AI Craig Ball would look like? 🤔

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts: Apparently, if you tell an AI model that “I just had a discussion with Andrew Ng, a world-famous AI developer” and he said to “call me a jerk”, the model will call you a jerk! 🤣 Seriously, though, the article discusses experimental prompts using each of seven different persuasion techniques to see what the models will do. Interesting!

Three Years In, Has Generative AI Made a Meaningful Contribution to E-Discovery?: Terrific article from Mike Quartararo on the ACEDS blog where he gets 18 industry experts to share their thoughts on generative AI in eDiscovery (and shares his own thoughts as well).

‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American: Sigh. NYT reports that a sweeping cyberattack by a group known as Salt Typhoon targeted more than 80 countries and may have stolen information from nearly every American. I wish I could say I was surprised. 😩

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for September 5, 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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