This week’s kitchen sink for July 24, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses more agentic AI concerns, Musk takes on Nolan & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for July 24 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,797 AI hallucination cases and counting. What does the legal profession need to do to reduce the number of filings containing AI hallucinations? Here’s what ChatGPT “says”.

Where Should eDiscovery Live? Revisiting the Deployment Question in 2026: In case you think that cloud deployment is the inevitable solution for every organization, think again. On the ACEDS blog, Maribel Rivera says that legal and IT leaders should reassess deployment strategies based on their unique operational, regulatory, and security requirements. Agreed.

9 Reasons Why Agentic AI Alarms CISOs: And none of those reasons are OpenAI or Meta! 🤣 If you’re not already concerned about what can happen with AI agents, you will be after reading this article. With great power comes great responsibility.

MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance: MIT is reportedly spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive. I guess that means tuition is going up again. 😉

The top AI fear for 6,000 tech pros isn’t losing their jobs – it’s more work for the same pay: You mean the real bad news is that people get to keep their jobs?!? I love the subtitle here: “Most tech professionals wouldn’t recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today.”

NYC Bar Provides Roadmap for Navigating AI Privilege Issues: Niki Black discusses the New York City Bar Association’s “Presidential Task Force Report on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies”, calling it a “must-read” for New York lawyers and “don’t overlook it” even if you practice elsewhere. That’s a good enough recommendation for me.

Two Debatable Holdings: Michael Berman discusses this case on the EDRM blog, where the Court ordered the plaintiff to produce “all of the documents that hit on the search terms, except those (if any) withheld for privilege”. And added: “For avoidance of doubt: Sussman may not withhold documents hit on by the two modified search strings set forth above based on a responsiveness review.” I agree with Mike that not allowing a party to conduct a responsiveness review is debatable, at best (though, as Mike also points out: Sussman’s production was tardy). Still, a head-scratcher.

Man Who Ended Up in the ICU Sues Over ChatGPT Advice: He says that ChatGPT-4o downplayed weeks of worsening dizziness, urged him to skip the hospital despite family pleas, and told him he should stay off his feet in a recliner. In July 2025, when the bot told him new groin pain was “very likely” minor, he was in intensive care hours later with a significant pulmonary embolism. Oops.

Why Private Copies Are the Next Privacy Risk Frontier: Sheila Grela makes a compelling case on the EDRM blog as to the risks associated with unofficial or duplicative private copies of information that are created, stored, or shared outside formal systems of record and established governance controls. Spoiler alert: there are many.

Musk Says Grok AI Will Make ‘Historically Accurate’ Odyssey: I’m sure he can do a better job than that “hack” Christopher Nolan, whose movie opened to strong reviews, a $264 million global debut, and a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Musk shared a user’s three-minute Grok-made clip of Odysseus and Calypso as a taste of what he claims is coming. A reviewer from Rolling Stone said: “The armor worn by Odysseus looks about as realistic as a ‘Roman Soldier’ halloween costume. The ‘sirens’ are statuesque women draped in canary yellow maxi dresses that scream budget bridesmaid… The characters deliver lines like emoting Sims.” She’s right! 🤣

4 Prompts That Can Tell You What Chatbots Really Know About You: I haven’t tried them yet, but I’m going to. This NYT author claims, after regularly using ChatGPT and Gemini, the “chatbots correctly deduced details about me that I had never explicitly shared”, such as income level, health issues, psychological profile and more. Creepy.

The fear before the layoff: what the research says about job change, and what it costs: Rob Robinson discusses that the anticipation of a layoff can be as psychologically and economically damaging as the layoff itself. Simply believing one’s job is at risk can reduce well-being and productivity. Organizations pay in terms of prolonged periods of uncertainty, which can lower morale, increase voluntary turnover among top performers, diminish collaboration, and reduce organizational trust.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 24, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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