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Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. 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. He has not. A spokesperson from the BBC said the corporation had contacted Apple to raise this concern and fix the problem. Apple declined to comment. "BBC News is the most trusted news media in the world," the BBC spokesperson added. "It is essential to us that our audiences can trust any information or journalism published in our name and that includes notifications." 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. But the BBC does not appear to be the only news publisher which has had headlines misrepresented by Apple's new AI tech. The mistake was highlighted on Bluesky by a journalist with the US investigative journalism website ProPublica. The BBC has not been able to independently verify the screenshot, and the New York Times declined to comment to BBC News. Prof Petros Iosifidis, a professor in media policy at City University in London, told BBC News the mistake by Apple looks embarrassing.