Apple is facing heavy criticism over its much-hyped artificial intelligence tool’s habit of spitting out fake news in its AI-generated summaries – including an inaccurate alert about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth getting “fired.”On Wednesday, the Apple Intelligence summaries — which are sent as alerts to iPhones — not only falsely declared that Hegseth, who had a Senate confirmation hearing, was mysteriously “fired;” but that President-elect Donald Trump tariffs were impacting inflation; and that Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio and US Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi were “confirmed,” according to a screenshot taken by Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler.None of the details included in the AI-generated summary, which was likely sent out to millions of iPhone users, were correct – nor did they accurately reflect the Washington Post’s actual real-time news alerts.“This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its [sic] AI a summary of @washingtonpost.com news alerts,” Fowler wrote on social media platform Bluesky.“It’s wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn’t turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.” Apple Intelligence debuted last fall and has gradually ramped up features available to its users.The new AI software has been a major selling point as Apple rolls out its next generations of iPhones after a period of stagnating sales.Apple representatives did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment.“News organizations have vigorously complained to Apple about this, but we have no power over what iOS does to the accurate and expertly crafted alerts we sent out,” Fowler also wrote.Several news outlets have publicly called out Apple for regurgitating false information through its AI-generated summaries.Last month, the BBC said it had contacted Apple to complain after Apple Intelligence had falsely claimed th...