It’s time for Apple to press pause on its AI news summaries

Apple Intelligence keeps wildly mischaracterizing the news alerts it tries to summarize. The company should suspend the feature until it works better.

Apple should shut off its AI summaries of news alerts until it can prevent them from spreading fake news. Anecdotes of iPhone users seeing weirdly phrased summaries of texts and other content are common. But getting news headlines wrong is another matter. Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler is the latest to call out the problem.