This week’s kitchen sink for June 5, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses underwater data centers, everything Anthropic & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for June 5 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,546 AI hallucination cases and counting. When it comes to LLMs, the probability that hallucinations will go away is zero.

China says ‘world’s first’ offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power: OK, this may be the longest title for an article I’ve ever covered. It kinda says it all, so I’ll just say “Damn!” 😲

If “Junk” is Responsive to Your Request, You Can’t Complaint About Getting “Junk”: As Michael Berman discusses on the EDRM blog, Plaintiffs complained of the production of “junk” documents, such as newsletters from third parties advertising deals for laptops and vacations. But the Court found that their broad requests meant that “that is the result of how Plaintiffs formulated the request, not how the City responded to them.” Lesson learned: tailor your searches.

Purview eDiscovery Sandboxes: If you have Microsoft Purview, you must follow Greg Buckles’ eDiscovery Journal blog – he regularly has tips and useful information for eDiscovery professionals. Here’s his latest.

It’s the End of eDiscovery as We Know It (And I Feel Fine): I was waiting until the full series was published to cover this – now I can. Gina Taranto published this series on the EDRM blog discussing the future of work for eDiscovery professionals in the AI era, interviewing Laura Cloney, founder of LC Talent Labs, to offer her broader perspective on the future of work and navigating a job market that is in transition. Here are the four parts: part I, part II, part III and part IV.

Trump’s Artificial Intelligence order, Take Two. Why it fails to address the potential harms of AI, and how it might possibly affect the legal technology industry.: Good article from the Technology Team of Project Counsel Media and Luminative Media. And guess what? The executive order is “a slimmed-down version of the one Trump shelved on May 21st, due to the tsunami of calls from Big Tech execs saying it went too far.” Big surprise. 🥱

Glasswing widens: Anthropic puts Mythos inside power, water and hospital operators across more than 15 countries: Anthropic is jumping ahead of OpenAI in valuation, going public first ad getting a lot of traction with Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos Preview. As Rob Robinson reports, Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing beyond its roughly 50 initial partners, extending access to a new cohort of approximately 150 organizations in more than 15 countries. One of those (surprise!) is the NSA.

Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar: AI agents need a new press agent to handle all this bad news lately. Including this report that agentic tool use actually increased document degradation by an average of 6% over non-agent use of LLMs, this article reports that only 11 percent of agents land in the Fortified Leaders quadrant of the AI Risk Quadrant (AIRQ) report – a 2026 Q2 edition produced by independent researchers, scores 100 commercial and publicly available AI agents across three dimensions: attack surface, blast radius, and defense controls.

Microsoft’s first reasoning model arrives with a provenance pitch aimed at compliance teams: Rob Robinson discusses Microsoft’s introduction of MAI-Thinking-1, its first in-house reasoning model, unveiled at the Build 2026 conference. While the model’s technical capabilities are important, his article emphasizes Microsoft’s strategic focus on data provenance, transparency, and compliance as key differentiators for enterprise customers.

My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with: A data breach last June at Columbia University exposed a wide range of sensitive information, including 1.8 million Social Security numbers. This author was one of those whose SSN was exposed, even though she had “never applied for, attended, or worked for the school”. It took a “months-long quest” on her part to find out what happened. The end result was prospective student information, including Social Security numbers, from a wide range of sources that was shared to Columbia and (surprise!) Columbia failed to delete this legacy database. We really have no idea all the places our data is anymore. 😟

When AI builds itself: Anthropic says its engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025. They’re saying that’s not necessarily a good thing – full recursive self-improvement also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems. Continuing to be an “apocaloptimist” is challenging.

AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data: Without our consent, no less. Fined $104 million by the FCC back in 2024. And it wasn’t even close: 8-1 vote. Sounds like justice to me! 😁

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 5, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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