It Hacked That Before Lunch

A Nebraska lawyer submitted a legal brief with 57 citations. Fifty-seven. Twenty of them were completely made up. He said he didn't use AI. The Nebraska Supreme Court disagreed, enthusiastically. That's just the cold open. This week: an AI agent cracked one of the world's most secure operating systems before noon, fake citations are quietly rotting the scientific record, and there's a 46-point gap between how AI experts feel about all of this and how the rest of us do. Plus the story of a guy in New Jersey who built an AI workflow to fight for his mother in a medical system that wasn't designed to let him fight — and won.