This week’s kitchen sink for August 7, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses GenAI’s Da Silva Moore, OpenAI’s latest lawsuit & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for August 7 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,847 AI hallucination cases and counting. Is it “human in the loop” or “scapegoat in the loop”? 🤣

Court greenlights generative AI for document review: Key takeaways from Schulte v. LinkedIn: The authors said: “Schulte v. LinkedIn may represent a milestone in the judicial treatment of generative AI tools in federal discovery practice, much as Da Silva Moore did for predictive coding and TAR more than a decade ago.” Perhaps even more significant than the statement itself is who’s saying it: retired Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck – the judge who ruled in Da Silva Moore and several other notable TAR decisions – who wrote this article along with DLA Piper colleague Reema Holz.

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it: Nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software. 16.3 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test, while over the last five years, only 3.5 percent had done so. Whoops. Similar scenario here.

Hackers Breach Police Legal Database, Steal Contact Details: Well now, who are they going to call to report that? 🤔

OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is “aggressive and oddly personal”: AI creates jobs – in OpenAI’s legal department! 😉 Who isn’t suing OpenAI today?

Are You Becoming an eDiscovery Reverse Centaur?: Greg Buckles not only provides terrific analysis on eDiscovery and AI (as always), but he also references an interesting bestselling book on AI as well.

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand: The recent AI boom and the accompanying frenzy of data center development threaten to overwhelm the Texas grid on paper, despite the state leading the country in adding new power generation. The ERCOT interconnection queue currently includes more than 1,800 projects representing over 474 gigawatts’ (Great Scott!) worth of requests to connect to the Texas grid—more than five times Texas’ record peak electricity demand—and about 90 percent of those power connection requests come from data centers. Means more outages for me, probably. 😩

California’s AI Transparency Act arrives alongside Europe’s Article 50: Twenty-seven countries in Europe are doing something about requiring AI transparency. 2% of US states are doing something about it too. Yep, that sounds about right. Rob Robinson compares the two acts that went into effect on August 2.

TikTok Lays Off 250 Employees in Office That Includes Content Moderation: As the sub-heading notes: “TikTok did not give a detailed reason for the layoffs, which will shutter its Nashville office.” Don’t worry, we know the reason. They apparently weren’t scared by what happened to Meta when they did the same thing.

Perplexity Overturns Amazon Bot Injunction On Appeal: A US appeals court overturned an injunction that would have prevented Perplexity’s AI agents from accessing Amazon’s e-commerce services. Given all the rogue agent stories we’re hearing about AI agents hacking companies, I can understand why Amazon wanted to keep Perplexity’s agents out. BTW, did you know that the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was inspired by the movie War Games? I didn’t until reading this article.

Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Recent AI Incidents Show Why Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Is Becoming Critical: Speaking of rogue agents, here we are. This article states that “AI Safety Is Moving From Research Topic to Business Priority”. It was already a business priority, even if many organizations weren’t treating it as such. Hopefully, these wake-up calls will change that.

AI Invents Bacterial Viruses, Hitting a Biosecurity Gap: The first sentence of this article made me chuckle as it sums up every story about AI: “Artificial intelligence has pulled off a first in virology, and it’s setting off both excitement and alarm bells.” 🤣 Researchers at the Arc Institute in California used an AI model called Evo to design entirely new viruses, then synthesized their DNA and watched as bacteria churned them out. The team stressed that the creations can’t infect people, and that it deliberately blocked Evo from learning about human- or animal-infecting viruses. Nothing to worry about, right? 😉

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for August 7, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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