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Chatbots are still falling short in mental health conversations with kids

SAN FRANCISCO — As more young people turn to chatbots for emotional support, artificial intelligence companies have promised to make their products suggest that users in distress seek real-life help. A new study found that in longer conversations with teenage users, popular chatbots can still make potentially dangerous errors, like offering up a diagnosis of a teen’s mental health condition or helping to conceal a suicide attempt.

YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features

YouTube is adding new AI-powered features to YouTube Music that aim to make it easier for listeners to discover music, explore artists, and find podcasts

The Situation Report

Since May, teams on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been combating a rare strain of Ebolavirus called Bundibugyo (BDBV). Every day, relais communautaires knock on doors of homes, offer counsel, learn of recoveries and deaths, and refer anyone with suspicious symptoms to get care.

YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI

YouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.

YouTube will let you make multiple personalized AI feeds.

This builds on the feature introduced in May which allows users to build a custom video feed based on AI prompt descriptions of your interests, moods, or favorite topics. The expansion means you can create and save more than one custom feed to your home screen, with YouTube saying it’ll be available for users in the US on web, mobile, and TVs “soon.”

YouTube releases new AI features for creators within its Studio app

YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.

StrictlyVC at Disrupt 2026: Inside the changing rules of venture capital

StrictlyVC joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the changing VC landscape thanks to AI. Get your Investor Pass to join this exclusive session.

YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them

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YouTube will hunt for AI voice deepfakes that sound like creators.

YouTube is expanding its likeness detection tool to include not just facial matches, but vocal matches too. At the company’s Made on YouTube event on Wednesday, executives teased the upcoming expansion that will allow creators to monitor potential synthetic soundalikes posted to the platform.

Iran's president blames U.S., Israel for global instability in defiant UN speech

Pezeshkian began his address to the UN General Assembly in New York City by holding up photos of children he said were killed by U.S. and Israeli bombs.

Rethinking AI for a Complex Financial World

Why the next generation of financial infrastructure is not a chatbot bolted onto the rails, but an intelligent operating layer that runs the whole system

Prince Harry warns AI chatbots can be more dangerous than social media for the young

NEW YORK — Prince Harry warned Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative that artificial intelligence chatbots designed to provide companionship are even more dangerous to young people than social media.