This week’s kitchen sink for February 6, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses adding plagiarism to AI hallucinations, the disappearing $100 billon deal, an ad denouncing ads & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for February 6 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 897 AI hallucination cases and counting (including this one we covered last week)! As I discussed in this post, here’s what’s causing all these AI hallucinations and how to fix it, IMHO.

Cassata v. Michael Macrina Architect, P.C.: What takes AI hallucinations to a new level? Pair them with a side of plagiarism! 🙄 Defense team did both in this case, leading to the Court imposing $2,000 in fines to the Lawyer’s Fund for Client Protection and $8,000 in attorney fees to the plaintiffs, while striking the defendant’s opposition brief from the record. Hat tip to Maura R. Grossman for the heads up.

From One-Eyed Kings to Collective Sight in Enterprise AI: Rob Robinson covers the state of AI adoption in enterprise organizations (via McKinsey’s State of AI survey) as follows: “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” If you read it with both eyes (😉), you’ll see that we still have challenges on the AI training, shadow AI and AI security front.

WordPress Publishes AI Guidelines To Combat AI Slop: Ruh-roh, I’d better get my WordPress site in line! 😉 Kidding aside, there are some excellent principles discussed here (e.g., you’re responsible for your contributions, not AI; disclose the use of AI in your content; you can use AI to draft but then review it yourself). I think there are at least 897 people referenced above who didn’t follow that last principle. 🤣

Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished: The two companies’ September 2025 letter of intent has never closed, Nvidia’s CEO now says the $100 billion figure was “never a commitment,” and Reuters reports that OpenAI has been quietly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips since last year. Is this another case of “it’s not you, it’s me”? 😁

‘I lost two hours of my day’ – why workers are frustrated with AI: This article seconds and adds to what Rob Robinson wrote in his article up above. There’s mass AI adoption, but workers’ confidence in the tech in falling. Lack of training could be one of the causes.

Revenue Up, Profits Flat: Decoding the eDiscovery Margin Puzzle: Speaking of Rob, he analyzes results from his always excellent eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, noting a gap between those who expect higher revenues over the next six months vs. those who anticipate higher profits and discussing three theories as to the cause for that gap.

Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI’s ad push in Super Bowl commercial: Anthropic is so big now, it can even afford to run Super Bowl ads. 😉 Ironically, the ads are anti-ad, as their ads will feature the tag line, “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.” It doesn’t ad up! See what I did there? 🤣

Neurosymbolic AI is the answer to large language models’ inability to stop hallucinating: Well, duh! 😉 Seriously, though, I didn’t know what it means either. According to the article: “Neurosymbolic AI combines the predictive learning of neural networks with teaching the AI a series of formal rules that humans learn to be able to deliberate more reliably. These include logic rules, like ‘if a then b’, such as ‘if it’s raining then everything outside is normally wet’; mathematical rules, like ‘if a = b and b = c then a = c’; and the agreed upon meanings of things like words, diagrams and symbols.” Sounds good, but “stop hallucinating” is a bold claim – I’ll believe it when I see it.

FBI stymied by Apple’s Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist’s iPhone: The battle between law enforcement and Apple security continues. The FBI didn’t get to her phone, but did get to her work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader. I wonder which finger she used? 🤔

The AI that spooked the stock market just got a big update: As if Anthropic wasn’t freaking people out enough, now they gotta go release a new, improved model. 😩 BTW, have the four stocks that I covered in yesterday’s article rebounded at all? Nope – they’re down even more, one of them has now lost more than 33% of its value since Monday.

MLB Just Pitched an AI Surprise: Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans! Not for free, of course. 🙄 But if it enables me to find out which ones are using PEDs, it might be worth it! 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 6, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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