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Apple Plans to Disable A.I. Features Summarizing News Notifications

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Less than six months after ‎ a ‎ of ‎ ‎ ‎, Apple is disabling one of its ‎ ‎: ‎ and summarizing news ‎.
The ‎ revealed the change on Thursday in a ‎ update for developers. It ‎ an ‎ from British media outlets that Apple’s ‎ was misrepresenting news reports.
In December, the BBC was among the first to urge Apple to change its ‎. The call came after the BBC sent ‎ a notification about Luigi Mangione, the man ‎ in the ‎ of Brian Thompson, the health ‎ executive, in New York City. Some iPhones summarized BBC news stories by saying, “Luigi Mangione ‎ himself.” He had not.
In addition to disabling news summaries, Apple said it would ‎ a warning for users who ‎ to receive notification summaries for other apps. The warning will say that the ‎ is still ‎ and that there could be ‎.
The ‎ summaries ‎ is the ‎ in a ‎ of ‎ that have marred new A.I. ‎. Last year, Google ‎ a chatbot that recommended people eat ‎ and ‎ glue to make pizza. Microsoft ‎ ‎ in an A.I. computer because of security ‎. And Humane, a ‎ that ‎ $240 ‎ for a ‎ called the Ai Pin, was ‎ by tech reviewers because its system sometimes ‎ ‎ inaccurately.
The early ‎ with A.I. ‎ have ‎ questions about the ‎’s ‎ potential. The ‎, which can answer questions, ‎ ‎ and write code, has been ‎ for its potential to disrupt businesses and ‎ trillions of dollars in ‎ ‎. But some on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley have ‎ ‎ about whether A.I. will quickly ‎ enough ‎ to ‎ its ‎ ‎.
“It’s hard, and it’s early and there’s not a ‎ ‎ proposition yet for ‎ ‎,” said Ben Bajarin, ‎ executive of Creative Strategies, a tech ‎ ‎. “It is going to take time, and it’s going to be a real slow roll. No one knows yet what someone is going to ‎ at and say, ‘That’s really ‎.’”
In a note to developers, Apple said it was ‎ to ‎ summaries of notifications for news and ‎ apps. It ‎ to make the ‎ ‎ again in a future ‎ update.
A BBC spokesman said it was pleased that Apple had heard its ‎ and decided to make a change. “Our ‎ is the ‎ of the news we deliver to ‎, which ‎ building and ‎ ‎,” he ‎.
The news of Apple’s changes was reported earlier by ‎ websites ‎ to Apple, ‎ MacRumors and 9to5Mac.
Apple was among the ‎ of tech’s biggest ‎ to enter the A.I. ‎. Last year, the ‎ introduced iPhones with an A.I. ‎ system called Apple Intelligence. It said the system would be able to ‎ messages, offer writing ‎ and ‎ a more ‎ Siri ‎ generative ‎ ‎.
But the ‎ weren’t ‎ on the iPhones that Apple began shipping in September. Instead, over the past few months, it has ‎ introduced some ‎, such as ‎ to ‎ emails and the ‎ to ‎ OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot ‎ Siri.
The A.I. capabilities are ‎ only on iPhone 15 and 16 models. The ‎ has ‎ English-speaking countries, ‎ the United States, Australia and Britain. In April, Apple ‎ to ‎ ‎ for Chinese, French, German, ‎, ‎ and other languages.
The ‎ made Apple Intelligence the ‎ of its promotions of the iPhone 16. But its ‎ of availability in some ‎ ‎, like China, ‎ demand for the ‎. Apple’s ‎ of the global smartphone ‎ ‎ to 18 ‎ ‎ year from 19 ‎ in 2023, according to Counterpoint Research, a ‎ that ‎ ‎ ‎.
“There’s a lot of big questions about the ‎ ‎ to do on-‎ A.I.,” said Bob O’Donnell, ‎ analyst at TECHnalysis Research, a ‎ ‎ ‎. “In the ‎ run, it will unquestionably be the right way to go, but it’s not a ‎ ‎.”
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