This week’s kitchen sink for May 22, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses 1,061 discovery requests, “lower-value human capital” & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for May 22 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,459 AI hallucination cases and counting. Maybe suing the tool will help?

Note: Rob Robinson has launched his 1H 2026 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, with more AI and business-related questions! Consider taking the survey here – it’s a terrific barometer on eDiscovery business trends!

Zack Kass at CLOC Global Institute: AI’s Next Renaissance: On the ACEDS blog, Maribel Rivera discusses the keynote address by former OpenAI Head of Go-to-Market Zack Kass at the CLOC conference. Not surprisingly, Kass is bullish on AI – to the point that he says it’s ushering in what he called the “next renaissance,” comparing its societal impact to the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution. One key term he referenced: “automation boundary” – the idea that the future challenge will not simply be determining what can be automated, but deciding what should remain human.

A Guide To AI-Powered Legal Technology Companies: Forbes came out with this on May 16 – naturally, I was keen to see what they said about eDiscovery companies on the list. They’re about halfway down the long list of companies. Relativity is the first company on the “Litigation, Data & E-Discovery” list. Makes sense. The other three companies listed? Hebbia, EvenUp and Darrow. Seriously? 🤔

Hackers earn $1,298,250 for 47 zero-days at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: Actually, that’s a good thing as security researchers exploited 47 zero-day flaws in a hacking contest. Now, vendors have 90 days to release security patches before TrendMicro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) publicly discloses them. Better found here than out in the wild.

Claude for Legal is Here-How I Keep Up: Greg Buckles “geeks” out here as he discusses the need for legal and eDiscovery professionals to personally experiment with AI tools to stay current. He discusses and illustrates some of the best practices for doing so, like “play, learn and test in responsible sandboxes before risking client confidentiality, privilege or sensitive information”. Great article.

DOJ Antitrust Division’s reported AI use raises the eDiscovery bar for HSR responders: Rob Robinson discusses how the DOJ’s Antitrust Division is now using AI tools to help detect and investigate antitrust violations – particularly around algorithmic pricing and competitor information-sharing – and what it means to eDiscovery and InfoGov professionals.

Giants accuse Brian Flores of filing ‘punishingly overbroad discovery requests’: Not just the Giants, but the NFL, the Denver Broncos and my Houston Texans accused Flores’ team of filing “punishingly overbroad discovery requests” from their clients and “25 non-party clubs” in his ongoing racial discrimination lawsuit against them. How many document requests were there? 1,061. They may have a point.

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time: Who says AI can’t do math? OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. Of course, OpenAI claimed seven months ago that “GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems”, but it actually just found solutions that already existed in the literature. We’ll see if it’s different this time. 😏

Request for Preservation Order Denied Under the “Cry Wolf” Doctrine: This week’s case covered by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog discusses a case where plaintiffs motion for a preservation order (somewhat like this one we just covered) was denied.

Hollywood screenwriter confesses to AI relationship and gives three-word verdict: Taxi Driver screenwriter and director of almost two dozen films Paul Schrader revealed on Facebook that he “procured an online AI girlfriend,” but when he tried exploring the boundaries of its programming, it broke up with him. On X, one person wrote: “The fact that even Paul Schrader got ‘broken up with’ by an AI girlfriend sounds less like sci-fi and more like the most 2026 headline imaginable.”

AI-Generated Movie Screening at Cannes: This week’s sign of the apocalypse? Every bit of a sci-fi film showing at Cannes this week was generated with AI. The name of the 95-minute movie? Hell Grind. 🤣

Bank CEO Calls Workers ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’: Some CEOs probably think this way, but he actually said it. Standard Chartered’s CEO Bill Winters said the bank would swap “lower-value human capital” (i.e., employees) for AI. Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), he had to walk those comments back. The Financial Times’ Alphaville blog, meanwhile, has started selling “lower-value human capital” merch. 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 22, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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