A look at AI chatbots that seek to improve mental health, like Wysa and Woebot, which have millions of users despite scant research to support their efficacy (Grace Browne/Wired)

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
BetterHelp, Cerebral, and other digital mental health companies are failing to offer quality care due to unprofessional therapists, a pressure to grow, and more  —  Heavy advertising and other strategies from Silicon Valley’s playbook boost providers’ growth but not the quality of care

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way and advertisers are embarrassed to admit they purchased fraudulent inventory  —  Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots.  And everyone is fine with this.

Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome:
Arm unveils Neoverse V2, its next-gen performance-optimized cores for the cloud, hyperscale, and HPC workloads, which is used in Nvidia’s upcoming Grace CPU  —  Today Arm announced its next-generation cores for higher performance per core applications.  Dubbed the Arm Neoverse V2 or “Demeter” …

Eleanor Cummins / Wired:
Holding platforms accountable for algorithms promoting self-harm is hard because research linking mental health and social media doesn’t establish causation  —  A British court ruled that teenager Molly Russell died in part because of online content—but holding platforms accountable is complicated.

Lauren Goode / Wired:
Match Group plans to add profile verification to Hinge in November, asking users to provide a video selfie, aiming to crack down on scammers  —  To combat the scourge of fake accounts, the dating site will ask users to prove their humanity by capturing a video selfie.

Matt Burgess / Wired:
Egypt is one of the internet’s most prominent choke points thanks to 16 subsea cables carrying ~17% of the world’s internet traffic touching land in the country  —  Underwater cables keep the internet online.  When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.