This week’s kitchen sink for October 2, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses “drunk” AI, an IPO warning of human extinction & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for October 2 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 2,125(!) AI hallucination cases and counting. Uh, yeah.  😉

Who Drives eDiscovery Innovation?: Greg Buckles does, at least with this post (and attached paper) that he prepared for David Horrigan’s Legal Data Intelligence State of the Union session at RelFest Chicago 2026. Participants were directed to pick either law firms or corporate as the group that most drives eDiscovery innovation. Greg went a bit “off-script” with his answer, but it’s a good analysis nonetheless.

“Drunk” AI is terrible at keeping secrets: AI models – they’re just like us! 😉 A team taught AI models to write like drunk people and found they became easier to jailbreak and more likely to leak secrets shared in confidence.

Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction: Who wouldn’t want to buy that? 😉 Now, when people say “the stock market is killing me”, they may mean it literally. 🤣

Former CEO Had No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Company’s Electronic Devices: Mike Berman covers this case on the EDRM blog, which “does not break new ground, it is an important reminder of, among other things, the importance of information governance in connection with assertions of privacy or privilege when an employee uses business devices for personal communications.” Side note: I saw Mike at RelFest this week – super nice guy!

FBI Acknowledges Major Breach Of Employee Data: Gee, who are they going to call to report that? 😉

Prompt Injection Comes to Litigation: What eDiscovery Professionals Need to Know: Sheila Grela does a great job discussing an important topic on the EDRM blog. And thanks for the shout out, Sheila!

Google Releases New Gemini Model With Guardrails Amid A.I. Safety Debate: For safety reasons, Gemini 4 Argon will initially be available only to some companies and organizations focused on cybersecurity defense before it is more widely released, Google said. THAT is a really good idea.

3rd Circuit Rules For Thomson Reuters In Its Copyright Fight Against Legal Research Startup ROSS: Bob Ambrogi covers this case (as he has done since the beginning), which is the first case (of 145 US cases) to be ruled on by a Federal appellate court. While the opinion remains under seal while the court allows the parties to request redactions, it was revealed that the court has ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters on the two primary issues that were before it — copyrightability of the Westlaw headnotes and fair use. Potential major implications for the 144 cases (and more to come).

F.T.C. Investigates OpenAI and Anthropic Over Potential Consumer Harms: The FTC. will reportedly examine whether the companies have broken federal laws prohibiting companies from unfair and deceptive practices and will probably look at potential consumer harm from rogue A.I. systems, the person said. Other violations of those laws can include abusing consumer data or misleading the public about a product’s capabilities.

The Surprising Side of Rogue AI: Rethinking Information → Knowledge → Wisdom: Ralph Losey has been talking about the dangers of AI for years. On the EDRM blog, he channels his inner “T.S. Eliot” and references past articles of his from as far back as 2015. Here’s what he said in 2015: “There are so many ways that a culture based on Information, not Knowledge, can go wrong and either destroy itself, or stagnate, and never make it to the end game of freedom and justice for all. The transformation from an Information society to a Knowledge society must happen quickly if we are to survive and prosper.” Even more true today.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for October 2, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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