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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline


Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. The notification which made a false claim about Mangione was otherwise accurate in its summaries about the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria and an update on South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. In May, in what Google described as "isolated examples", its AI Overviews tool for internet searches told some users looking for how to make cheese stick to pizza should consider using "non-toxic glue".

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