This week’s kitchen sink for July 10, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses Tilly Norwood’s first “movie”, AI speeding up tasks, not cases & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for July 10 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,745 AI hallucination cases and counting. Halfway through the year, we’ve already exceeded last year’s total! 😩

Information Governance–Employee’s Use of Employer’s Email for Privileged Communications: Michael Berman covers a case on the EDRM blog where the plaintiff sought to have three email communications with counsel ruled as privileged when they were in (his employer) the defendant’s email system. As was the case here, the Court said nope.

Microsoft Roadmap – Q2 2026: Greg Buckles’ blog eDiscovery Journal is a must read to keep up with changes to M365. This quarter, there are 889 roadmap changes and 399 new features! Also, Greg had Copilot expand his recent eDiscovery Impact M365 Roadmap entries with short recommendations based on his collective work product (which he notes that he hasn’t validated, so he says: “trust, but verify”).

AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood lands first feature film amid Hollywood fury: She’s back! According to a press release, her movie – titled Misaligned – will be a comedy-drama with the AI nature of Norwood at the center of the plot. The film will follow “Tilly, an AI being with no real body, no childhood and no lived experience of her own… only access to everyone else’s. Things spiral when a seductive rogue bot from the dark web convinces her to abandon her guardrails and begin developing desires, impulses and ambitions of her own.” It actually sounds pretty good – and very true to life! 🤣

AI liability clarified? UKJT says existing English Law provides the answer: Legal IT Insider discusses how The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) – an industry-led initiative created by LawtechUK – has this week published a Legal Statement on Liability for AI Harms, which finds that professionals may be liable for negligent use of AI and also for failing to use it when a competent member of their profession would have done so. That second part is interesting!

OpenAI to publicly release GPT-5.6, rolls out conversational AI models: Notably, this includes new voice models called GPT-Live, which can listen and speak at the same time. This means you can interrupt them! Can’t wait to tell mine to “stop talking”! 😉

‘Hysteria’ Grips San Francisco’s Housing Market as A.I. Wealth Pours In: How important is owning a piece of OpenAI or Anthropic? Some home sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area are accepting shares in those companies instead of cash. Wow. 🤯

Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself: A lot of shocking allegations in a proposed class action lawsuit accusing X and xAI of building toxic AI “nudify” tools but also of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM). The allegations are totally yucky..

How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.: Hope this doesn’t turn into a similar situation! Meta does say that private accounts and users under 18 were excluded from the new feature, which can be disabled “with just a couple clicks.” Users can also change the AI settings for individual pictures and videos. Users cannot stop their audio, text and comments from being “reused” by Meta’s AI. Of course not. 😠

eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results: As he has been doing with other recent survey results, Rob Robinson has been rolling out the 1H eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey results over several posts. So far, he has covered financial outlooks, issues impacting eDiscovery business performance, and AI and governance. His last post will recap the entire survey results. Interesting findings as always!

When Evidence Behaves Like Water, Law Cannot Think Like a Mouse: We all know that, right? 😉 In the EDRM blog, Ralph Losey takes a “quantum leap” into why quantum-generated evidence will require lawyers to fundamentally rethink how they evaluate, preserve, and challenge evidence in litigation. As usual, Ralph is thinking about topics like these ahead of almost everyone else. 😊

AI is speeding up litigation tasks – but not the overall pace of cases: Here’s something we haven’t taught AI to do yet – procrastinate! 🤣 Casey Newton discusses in Project Counsel Media how – despite AI expediting certain tasks in the litigation process – human judgment, strategic decisions, and clogged court schedules remain the primary bottlenecks in the legal system. In other words, same as it ever was!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 10, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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