This week’s kitchen sink for December 12, 2025 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses the AI boom, prompt marketing, facial recognition on Ring cameras, “neutering” of state AI laws & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for December 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 677 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, here’s what’s causing all these AI hallucinations and how to fix it, IMHO.

From Lab Errors to Data Lakes: The One-Percent-Per-Hop Problem in eDiscovery: Rob Robinson illustrates how even a small human error can derail eDiscovery processes, as follows: “In an eDiscovery matter involving millions of records, a one percent error rate does not simply mean a few corrupted files; it can mean thousands of privileged documents inadvertently produced or critical metadata fields stripped during a supposedly routine export procedure.”

What Connects “Popcorned Planet” and Ms. Blake Lively?: Michael Berman has covered the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case a lot. In this installment, he discusses how the court rejected each of Popcorned Planet’s privilege and proportionality positions in denying their efforts to quash a third-party subpoena. Production was ordered.

Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom: In short, it’s because it’s the multitrillion-dollar companies like Microsoft, Google and Meta driving it. That lends credence to those saying it’s more boom than bubble.

Stricken legal start-up Robin AI swooped on by rival: No, the company that acquired the bulk of Robin AI isn’t named “Hawk” (though that would be appropriate), it’s named Scissero. The deal involves sales of Robin AI’s managed services division, NOT its technology platform.

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells: In ‘yo face! 😉 The controversial feature, dubbed “Familiar Faces,” was announced earlier this September and is now rolling out to Ring device owners in the United States. At least the feature is not enabled by default – users will need to turn it on in their app’s settings.

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise: More indication that its an AI boom, not bubble. This article is “chock-full” of stats and graphs that illustrate why Enterprise AI is growing faster than any software category in history.

The New Currency of Expertise: How ‘Prompt Marketing’ Is Redefining the White Paper: Rob Robinson continues to discuss unique topics that I’ve never heard of. His latest is a story on the rise of “Prompt Marketing,” where experts are disclosing the prompts used to generate work product and thought leadership as a way to “signal both transparency and deep technical command.” Totally makes sense.

OpenAI’s house of cards seems primed to collapse: A detailed discussion of OpenAI’s challenges and why they might not work their way out of it. On the bright side, they did just release GPT 5.2. And they acknowledged Sam Altman’s “code red” from last week.

Pentagon Launches New AI Platform: Losing deals like this is why OpenAI may be worried. The Pentagon is announced they’ve selected Alphabet’s Gemini for Government—Google’s tailored version of its flagship AI model—to power a new platform called GenAI.mil, which will be available to about 3 million civilian and military employees. And they shared this image to promote the new tool (side note: has anyone noticed how much Pete Hegseth looks like Timothy Olyphant?):

ChatGPT Drove ‘Paranoid’ Man to Murder 83-Year-Old Mother, Complaint Alleges: Now to the “true crime” portion of this week’s KS. A new complaint alleges Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, and then himself in early August after ChatGPT drove him to paranoia. Sad.

Woman uses ChatGPT-created email to escape man who strangled her, held knife to her toddler son’s throat on FaceTime: Cops: But, on a happier note, ChatGPT reportedly also helped a sex-trafficking victim to escape her captor by creating a fake email that said she needed to return a rental car at Kansas City International Airport.

Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws: You know all those “pesky” state AI laws that have been enacted to regulate the impacts of AI and require safety measures from AI companies? Apparently, they’ve been “neutered” by President Trump. A “ballsy” move, to be sure. 🤣 What could possibly go wrong? 😉

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

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