Apple Intelligence missummarizes SpaceX launched Starship and lunar landers before they even happen

Oh AI, you love it or you hate it. It, alongside being the local weatherman, is the only thing that can be completely wrong and everyone gives it a break. Last year Apple rolled out its version of AI called “Apple Intelligence.” One of its features is to summarize notifications so you don’t have to. Unless it gets it wrong, which it does a lot.

As of publication, SpaceX is counting down to launch two lunar landers on a single rocket from Florida. One will be a NASA-contracted lander, and the other for Japan. Meanwhile, SpaceX teams in Texas are working on getting the world’s largest rocket ready for launch.

Both of these missions have been all the buzz on X. NASA’s lander, called Blue Ghost, is built by Firefly and will be the company’s first attempt to land on the Moon. So far, no company has truly soft-landed on the Moon, but Intuitive Machines did land sideways last year.

For Starship, it is the first-ever Block 2 variant of the rocket to launch. It will also be the first Starship rocket to carry deployable payloads into space. If all goes well, we could realistically see operational flight of the rocket in the coming months, moving the needle on SpaceX’s dreams of having a Martian colony rocket in its arsenal.

So if you’re one of Space Explored’s amazing photographers like Steven Madow, hoping to keep tabs on the status of SpaceX’s launches, you’re on X. And if you’re a techie like Madow, you also use Apple Intelligence for fun.

The upsides, lots of cool new features to play with. The downsides, you get notified that SpaceX miraculously launched its two missions hours early, without FAA approval, through a summarization of X’s notifications by Apple Intelligence. While X is the hub for all things SpaceX thanks to Elon Musk’s ownership over both, full of extremely accurate information it is not.

Apple Intelligence regularly gets summarizations wrong; recently, the BCC has urged Apple to remove the feature after it incorrectly summarized its headlines that the United Healthcare CEO’s killer shot himself. It also won’t take long, if you’re an iPhone user, to see poorly summarized text messages or emails you may have received.

So like Europe’s current state in the commercial launch market, Apple Intelligence seems to be a work in progress.