Apple drops artificial intelligence news tool that wrongly claimed Rafael Nadal was gay

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Apple has rolled back an AI tool after it wrongly claimed former professional tennis player Rafael Nadal had come out as gay in an update of summarised news stories. 

“Brazilian tennis player, Rafael Nadal, comes out as gay” read the push notification published earlier this month, and captured and recently reported on by The Telegraph.

Nadal, who was born in Manacor on the island of Mallorca, Spain, is married to Mery Perelló, with whom he is a parent to an infant son, Rafael.

According to the newspaper, the alert also told a number of iPhone users that the BBC had reported that Luke Littler was the winner of the PDC World Darts Championship final before it had commenced.

These are among a slew of inaccuracies that have reportedly

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