Here’s the kitchen sink for October 3, 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 October 3, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 424 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.

Also, the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, conducted by ComplexDiscovery and Rob Robinson is now open! Please consider participating here!

5 Essential Questions Every Lawyer Should Ask Before Using AI Tools: These are concepts lawyers should know, but judging by the AI hallucination number above, many don’t. This article does a terrific job of discussing the considerations for lawyers with AI.

Plaintiff Raised a Troubling Spoliation Issue, But Did Not Surmount All Hurdles, and a Ruling Was Reserved: Interesting case and even more interesting analysis of it by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. My hint is that a key characteristic of the evidence may have avoided more significant sanctions.

AI is not killing jobs, US study finds: Good news for all you who are out of work – it’s not AI’s fault! 🤣 Seriously though, there are some interesting numbers in here, including this one: “Corporate AI adoption remains low, and has declined among US companies with more than 50 employees”. 🤯

43% of workers say they’ve shared sensitive info with AI – including financial and client data: Which means that the other 57% is lying through their teeth. 😉 Seriously though (again), a new study finds that while AI use is surging, cybersecurity training isn’t keeping up. Consider me not surprised.

Critics slam OpenAI’s parental controls, while users rage, “Treat us like adults”: Sounds like a no-win situation for OpenAI after the high-profile suicide of a teen earlier this year. I expect the controls to not only stay, but to potentially strengthen even more.

Updated: Plaintiff legal AI startup Eve raises $103m Series B at a $1bn valuation: Caroline Hill discusses the latest in funding for Eve, a large language model-based plaintiff litigation management platform, which positions itself as a David vs Goliath platform to help individuals who are facing large corporate legal teams level the playing field. Though I’ve heard it behaves poorly on Apple devices. Think about it… 😉

Corporate Impact of Reduced Regulatory Enforcement in 2025: Terrific article from Greg Buckles on eDiscovery Journal, who is providing background information for his “chosen ‘2025 eDiscovery Trend’ for my 3 minutes of fame” during “The e-Discovery State of the Union” panel next week at RelFest. That includes what GC’s should plan for from an eDiscovery perspective in this uncertain regulatory environment.

OpenAI mocks Musk’s math in suit over iPhone/ChatGPT integration: Hey, did you know that Elon Musk is suing OpenAI – again? 😉 The lawsuit was filed in August after Musk raged on X about Apple never listing Grok on its editorially curated “Must Have” apps list, which ChatGPT frequently appeared on. OpenAI not only argued that the estimates in xAI’s complaint seemed “baseless”, but also suggested that, for Apple, it was a business decision to avoid Grok after Musk removed “woke filters” that caused Grok to declare itself “MechaHitler.”

From Ships to Silicon: Personhood and Evidence in the Age of AI: Ralph Losey continues to blow me away not only with his thought provoking discussions, but also the amazing images that accompany his stories. Here, he discusses the next frontier of AI in the courtroom: AI outputs that resemble testimony, raising questions of authentication and admissibility.

Netflix will pay you up to $700K per year—and let you work fully remote—if you can harness AI to make employees more productive: Is this worth dusting off a resume that hasn’t been updated in 5 1/2 years? Asking for a friend. 😉

MFA Fatigue and Million-Dollar Bribes: The New Face of Insider Threats: Rob Robinson discusses the length to which cybercriminals will go to trap journalists. One approach – “MFA bombing” or “MFA fatigue” – is where targets are overwhelmed with authentication requests, with the hope that victims will eventually approve one, either accidentally or out of frustration, to make the notifications stop. Don’t fall victim to MFA fatigue.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for October 3, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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