Apple has suspended a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that drew criticism and complaints for making repeated mistakes in its summaries of news headlines. The tech giant had been facing mounting pressure to withdraw the service, which sent notifications that appeared to come from within news organisations' apps.

Apple is suspending an error-prone feature that used artificial intelligence to deliver bogus news alerts to some iPhone owners. The decision was disclosed Thursday as part of a test version for the next software release,

Apple has disabled the hallucination-prone Apple Intelligence News summaries in iOS 18.3 beta 3 to fix issues.

Apple is pausing AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps after facing backlash for generating inaccurate news alerts. In addition, the

Apple pushed out a software update that disabled news headlines and summaries generated using AI that were lambasted for getting facts wrong.