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Issue #007 — At WHA79, suicide-prevention bodies open a WHO-level front on AI and youth safety, pressing a 'warm handoff to a trained person, not a disclaimer' standard as the global axis the newsletter had not yet tracked.
Issue #006 — The EU AI Act's high-risk classification guidelines enter open consultation, giving mental-health detection tools their first read on Brussels' rules just as they layer atop the Medical Device Regulation.
Issue #005 — JAMA Pediatrics puts a peer-reviewed number on the demand side: ~20% of US youth now use AI chatbots for mental-health advice, and 63% hide it.
Issue #004 — Drexel's 'bond paradox' pins down when AI-companion use turns harmful, while a national review finds only 3 of ~800 state AI bills became mental-health law.
Issue #003 — The Lancet's GBD 2023 update lands 1.2B globally with anxiety up 158% since 1990, and Spring Health's VERA-MH crystallises as the open-source safety benchmark The Path used to anchor its $14.3M launch.
Issue #002 — Mpathic's clinician-built safety benchmark exposes frontier-model blind spots, npj Digital Medicine lands the first dedicated chatbot-management meta-analysis, and bipolar digital phenotyping calls for standardized 'digital signatures.'
Issue #001 — Verily's mental-health guardrail and PsychiatryBench arrive at npj Digital Medicine, an Oura-Ring study links passive measures to next-day panic attacks, and Utah's HB 452 gets its first formal post-mortem.
Baseline — the state of human behavioral analysis for early identification of mental health conditions

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AI / ML6

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Digital Phenotyping3

E

Epidemiology2
Ethics & Regulation8

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Industry4

M

Multimodal2

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NLP & Text6

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social-media2
Speech & Voice1

V

Vision & Affect1

W

Wearables2

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