This week’s kitchen sink for March 13, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses the purpose of an ESI protocol, the government vs. three AI titans & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for March 13 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,043 AI hallucination cases and counting. But as I discussed in this post, hallucinations by US lawyers aren’t as bad as you think.

The Purpose of an ESI Protocol: Michael Berman had me at the title on this case that he covers on the EDRM blog that involves a dispute over – an ESI protocol! Duh! 😉

The AI Literacy Gap Is Now a Security and Compliance Liability: Rob Robinson discusses the pitfalls of untrained employees using AI – including employees feeding confidential documents into unauthorized chatbots and courtrooms demanding accountability for AI-generated legal submissions. Nearly 48% of IT decision-makers identify a lack of staff with sufficient AI expertise as the biggest barrier to adoption, even as 97% of organizations are either already using or planning to implement AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions. Ruh-roh.

Microsoft: Hackers abusing AI at every stage of cyberattacks: AI is used by hackers to draft phishing emails, translate content, summarize stolen data, debug malware, and assist with scripting or infrastructure configuration. In other words, they’re using the same efficiency capabilities we’re using – except they’re using it for evil purposes.

Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label: Anthropic filed two lawsuits (in two different jurisdictions) against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds. Why is this going to be a tough fight for the government? Read the next item.

Google and OpenAI Just Filed a Legal Brief in Support of Anthropic: Now, the government isn’t just fighting one of the most powerful companies in the world, it’s effectively fighting three. Even OpenAI (who received their own government contract in the midst of the Anthropic dispute) is siding with them on this issue.

More AI tools, more burnout! New research explains why: Participants in the survey described a “buzzing” sensation, mental fog, difficulty focusing, slower decision making, and headaches after extended AI oversight. Researchers define AI brain fry as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond a person’s cognitive capacity. A “buzzing sensation”?!? Eegads! Hey, at least it’s not extending to legal respondents that much. While 25.9% of marketing respondents reported Al “brain fry”, only 5.6% legal and compliance respondents did. Maybe their brains are already fried? 🤣

Microsoft Teams will tag third-party bots trying to join meetings: Microsoft says Teams will soon automatically tag third-party bots in lobbies, allowing organizers to control whether they can join meetings. Zoom already does that, just sayin’. 😉

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network: If there was ever a “match made in heaven”, it must be the social network company that strives to get as much personal data as possible about us and the social network company for AI agents, proving that Meta literally wants to capture information from every communicating entity that exists.

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety: Such sad stories. Dozens of parents have shown up in Los Angeles to draw attention to a landmark social media addiction trial, which seeks to hold tech companies accountable over claims of personal injury. Now, parents who say they lost their children to suicide after A.I. chatbots egged them on are combining forces in an attempt to force change in that area. The result of the first trial may impact the prospects for the second group to do the same.

At Legalweek, Judges Deliver a Stark Warning on Threats, Intimidation, and the Strain on the Rule of Law: Rob Robinson recaps the day three Legalweek 2026 panel where U.S. District Judge Esther Salas led a panel on judicial safety, independence, and the rule of law with U.S. District Judges Kenly Kiya Kato, Karoline Mehalchick, and Mia Roberts Perez. If Judge Salas’ name is familiar, it’s probably because of the July 19, 2020 attack at her home, when a disgruntled lawyer posing as a delivery driver killed her 20-year-old son, Daniel Anderl, and seriously wounded her husband. That attack also led to the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, federal legislation intended to help shield judges’ personal information and strengthen protections for federal judges and their immediate families. We need to protect Federal, State and Local judges every way we can. ❤️

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 13, 2026! Back next week with another edition! Lá breithe shona dom! 😉

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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