Here’s the kitchen sink for September 12, 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 12, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 358 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.

From Hours to Outcomes: The Legal Tech Executive Playbook for Value Creation in the AI Era: Terrific playbook from Plat4orm and Lumen Advisory Group designed for helping legal tech providers guide clients through the business implications of AI adoption throughout the legal value chain. Good look at the market and how providers can embrace the opportunities that AI presents today.

These new AI earbuds offer real-time translation of 42 languages – different accents too: Wish these were out during my recent trip to Italy! And that I had the money to buy them! And the money to give them to whoever I’m talking to! 😉

Red Sea Cable Cuts Disrupt Connectivity and Expose Global Infrastructure Risks: On September 6, 2025, multiple submarine cables in the Red Sea were severed, triggering widespread internet disruptions across Asia and the Middle East. Accident or sabotage? Rob Robinson covers it – and the potential ramifications of it – here.

In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”: Or at least Google does in its adtech antitrust case, where the court is deciding on remedies for the illegal conduct. Not so much when Google is trying to refute a Pew Research Center analysis that showed searches with AI Overviews resulted in lower click-through rates. Hmmm…

The Case for Using Small Language Models: For those who think size matters (😉), this article discusses the competitive advantages that small language models (SLMs) have over large language models (LLMs). I’m surprised that more people aren’t talking about the SLMs.

Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach: Cybercriminals have put a pox on Plex, the streaming company, by stealing Plex customer account information, including user names, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and unspecified authentication data. Plex would not say what specific hashing algorithm the company uses to scramble customer passwords (as they shouldn’t), but their request for users to change their passwords implies that they’re worried the hashing algorithms aren’t strong enough.

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”: Many of you already know the latest in the Anthropic settlement with authors, but if you didn’t, now you do. 😊 This article discusses the many issues that California District Judge William Alsup has with the settlement – now the ball is back in the court of the lawyers to see if they can address the concerns.

Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools: You’re selling your own data? That’s our job! 😉 More than 18,000 Spotify users have joined “Unwrapped,” a collective launched in February that allows them to pool and monetize their data. They’re only getting about $5 in cryptocurrency tokens each, but it’s good to see users have an opportunity to take control of their own data for once.

Hallucinations, Drift, and Privilege: Three Comic Lessons in Using AI for Law: Ralph Losey does comedy on the EDRM blog! Or at least he does so with the help of “GPT-5, the latest large language model whose humor engine is far better than its case-law recall.” See, Ralph doesn’t need AI to be funny! 😉

OpenAI is on board with a feature-length generative AI film — ‘Critterz’ raises concerns of job loss in Hollywood: Ruh-roh! OpenAI is making a full-blown animated film called Critterz, with writers from an actual movie (Paddington in Peru). It’s being positioned as an experiment, but if it goes well, expect movie studios to embrace the concept. There is a 5-minute short on the article – thankfully, the animation isn’t that great, so maybe AI isn’t there quite yet.

What is a “Document?”: Interior Email Omitted from Email Chain – Sanctions Follow for Lack of Candor to Court: In this case covered by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog, Plaintiff’s counsel produced an email thread with defense counsel about the timing of a discovery dispute that omitted an email from the thread. As the Court said: “It appears plaintiff’s counsel selected the emails that bolstered the motion to compel, while leaving out the less-favorable portion. This is problematic, and plaintiff’s counsel’s protests to the contrary are unpersuasive.” Wow. Somehow, the Rule 37(a) sanction of having to pay the other side’s expenses (including attorney fees) seems insufficient.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for September 12, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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