Tom Morgan 
A case study of verified AI failures, their documented cost, and the rules in force as of 11 October 2026. The short answer Part 1 — The math that sits under every agent stack LangGraph (graph-based control flow), CrewAI (role-based multi-agent crews), and Devin (a packaged autonomous software agent) differ in design. They share one … Read more
AI plagiarism detectors misfire on genuine human writing because their core signal — text perplexity — penalizes simple, predictable sentence structure, which is common in non-native English and plain prose. Peer-reviewed testing has found false-positive rates as high as 61% in some writer populations, even as vendors advertise under 1%. TL;DR A zero-grade, an expulsion … Read more
Last updated October 6, 2026. This is a research summary, not legal advice. Statutes get amended, and rules are still being written, so check the primary text before you ship anything. Eighteen months ago, “AI companion law” meant a single New York statute that almost nobody had read. Today three of the most watched legislatures … Read more
Short answer: Almost anyone who builds a generative AI system that people in California can reach. On September 30, 2026, Governor Newsom signed SB 1000, which deletes the old “more than 1,000,000 monthly users” test from the definition of a covered provider. The law took effect immediately. A startup with 2,000 users now sits under … Read more
AI regulation · Updated 6 October 2026 Information, not legal advice. Check your own situation with counsel who knows EU media and AI law. The short answer. You need a visible disclosure if four things are all true: you use an AI system professionally, the text it generates or manipulates is published, the text aims … Read more
The short answer: no. The “95% of AI pilots fail” line did not come from a measured failure rate of pilots. It came from a funnel chart in a small, non-peer-reviewed report that headlines and the report’s own summary misread. Read correctly, the same chart says that about one in four companies that ran a … Read more
In June 2023 a federal judge fined two New York lawyers $5,000 for a brief full of cases ChatGPT had made up. At the prices verified for this article, $5,000 buys about 67,000 runs of a ten-page document summary on the priciest OpenAI or Anthropic tier, and about 6.7 million runs on the cheapest. Most … Read more
By Tom Morgan · Last updated 22 October 2026 · General information, not legal or financial advice The short answer. The cheapest failures in this file are the most instructive. A Canadian tribunal order of C$812.02 against Air Canada and a partial refund by Deloitte Australia needed no technical sophistication to repeat: nobody checked the … Read more
The most revealing statement about McDonald’s drive-thru AI was not made in 2024, when the company ended the test. It was made in June 2021, when CEO Chris Kempczinski told analysts the technology was about 85% accurate and could take about 80% of orders, then added that it likely would not roll out within five … Read more