You can stop speculating how the AI failed. The key quote of the article is: "The 50-year-old virtuoso fiddler said he later learned the inaccurate claims were taken from online articles regarding a man in Atlantic Canada with the same last name."

Looks like most information was right (or as right as the claims against his double are), but were linked with the wrong person with that name. I think such things happened with Google's knowledge graph way before LLMs were a thing. I also read some time ago an interesting article about someone sharing name and birth day (I don't remember, but possibly even birth city) with another person and getting confused over that all the time even by authorities. If that happens to you, you can only hope your double won't be a criminal.

...but it's done a number on my battery. FU Apple Intelligence

Most household devices in many country use the same or similar plugs (ground or ungrounded), outside of high power needs.

We even made progress on some 120/220 swappable devices in the computer age.

ICANN went off the rails a few years after it was created. After accomplishing its primary mission of opening up domain registrations, it lost its way. Despite the use of the word "Internet" in their name, they meet globally three times a year. recent places include Hamburg, DC, Cancun, Kuala Lumpur, The Hague, San Juan, Seattle, Montreal, Kobe, Barcelona, and Panama City. It has a "funded traveler" policy, paying hotel and $85 per diem for meals and travel, which cost it millions annually. It's a good deal if you're part of the community. ICANN uses its ability to create TLDs for any word in the dictionary, giving it a new revenue source. I don't know what this current dispute is about, but seriously doubt it upset the Internet or ICANN's operations to generate new sources of revenue to fund its travel.

Proper nouns are capitalized, not verbs.

the PC-maker told the publication.

Scanning them may tell us the field where something was grown, the factory where a garment was sewn, the sustainability practices of the company that made it -- or the washing instructions. [...] Stores will be able to respond immediately to product recalls, identifying faulty items and removing them from shelves. They'll be able to flag foods that are approaching their sell-by date -- and offer discounts before they expire. Consumers will gain online access to a trove of useful data -- everything from ingredients, recipes and potential allergens to promotional offers and information about how to recycle the product.

I know we've also had at least two other technologies in the lab since then which claimed about the same thing (can't remember the names). They never lived up to their promise either.

Basically, this stuff is like fusion power - 5 years away and it always will be. I'd love to be proven wrong!