This week’s kitchen sink for June 26, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses different search terms for Teams than email, OpenAI’s “Jalapeño” chip & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for June 26 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,659 AI hallucination cases and counting. Maybe we need advice from a well-respected judge to slow down the momentum?

Parliament hits pause on high-risk AI rules and bans nudifier apps: OK, so lawmakers delayed the EU AI Act’s high-risk obligations to December 2027 and August 2028. Not surprising. At least they banned AI systems that generate child sexual abuse material or non-consensual intimate imagery. My question is this: shouldn’t they already be banned – everywhere? 🤔 Rob Robinson covers the story here.

Does Microsoft Teams Require Different Search Terms Than Email?: Very interesting case discussion from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog. Here, the court held that search terms that may be appropriate for email may not be sufficient for shorter, less formal communications on a platform like Teams. That’s huge. I’m going to have to circle back to this one for a full post.

LawNext Podcast: Amy Juers and Valerie Chan on Marketing Legal Tech in the Age of AI Search: Two of my favorite people being interviewed by another of my favorite people, Bob Ambrogi. Amy’s and Valerie’s companies – Edge Marketing and Plat4orm respectively – have announced a strategic partnership and a new framework they call the Trusted Answer Growth System, designed to help companies adapt to how buyers research and shortlist vendors in AI-driven search (despite being long-term competitors). Very cool.

An Oxford tutorial for cybersecurity, governance and eDiscovery: This post from (another of my favorite people) Rob Robinson is downright “Losey-ian”! 😉 And, I admit I haven’t gotten through all of it yet. But it’s very interesting. It introduces “The ComplexDiscovery Tutorial,” an Oxford-style educational program designed to strengthen critical thinking and analytical reasoning for professionals in cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery. And it includes three fully developed examples, each pairing a model essay with a simulated tutor interrogation. I’m going to have to circle back to this one too.

It is Improper to Combine Interrogatories and Document Requests: The lawyers reading this are saying “duh!”, but some plaintiff did it, as (another of my favorite people) Michael Berman discusses on the EDRM blog. The Court was not a fan of it. 🤪

Your Protective Order Wasn’t Written for ChatGPT: Kelly Twigger (another of my favorite people) discusses the case Tate Grp. Auto., LLC v. Legacy Auto. Cap., LLC, which we discussed in Wednesday’s webinar. Hat tip to Martin Tully and Bill Hamilton (more favorite people!), who suggested it for discussion.

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of campaign to ‘brazenly’ and ‘illicitly’ extract AI capabilities: Different article than I covered on PinHawk’s Daily Law Technology Digest this morning, but the same story. Anthropic said operators affiliated with Alibaba and its AI lab carried out 28.8 million exchanges with its models using roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April 22 and June 5. People who do that are not my favorite people. 😉

Federal Probe After Tesla Crash Kills Woman Inside House: This happened in Katy, a suburb of my hometown of Houston. Industry-watchers say the driver may have overreacted and hit the accelerator when the vehicle failed to make a right turn while on its semi-automated driving system. We’ll see what the Feds find out.

12 rules of agentic AI for successful enterprise transformation: I admit, I’m a sucker for numbers and infographics and this article has both! 12 total rules divided between system of data/context (3), system of agency (4), system of work (4) and system of management (1). Interesting discussion! 😊

Alibaba Sues Pentagon Over Military Blacklist: “Hey, we can sue somebody too”, says Alibaba. In this case, Alibaba objects to being accused of being a “military-civil fusion contributor” through its affiliation with China governmental agencies. There’s a lot of litigation to unpack with Alibaba these days. 🤯

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale: OpenAI is in the chip business! The chip they announced with Broadcom is called – wait for it! – Jalapeño! No truth to the rumor that the chip can get a bit hot when it runs a while. 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 26, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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