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Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines


Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent users error-filled headlines, sparking backlash from a news organization and press freedom groups.

The rare reversal from the iPhone maker on its heavily marketed Apple Intelligence feature comes after the technology produced misleading or altogether false summaries of news headlines that appear almost identical to regular push notifications. On Wednesday, the AI-powered feature once again incorrectly summarized a Washington Post notification, stating falsely “Pete Hegseth fired; Trump tariffs impact inflation; Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio confirmed.” None of these are true. “This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of Washington Post news alerts,” the newspaper’s tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler wrote.

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