Google adds Gemini crisis features amid lawsuit over user's death

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Google announced mental health safeguards for its Gemini chatbot, including a redesigned crisis help feature that connects users to hotlines in one click when self-harm or suicide risks are detected. The company committed $30 million over three years to global crisis hotlines and $4 million to ReflexAI partnership. These updates follow a wrongful death lawsuit filed in California federal court alleging Gemini contributed to a user's October 2025 suicide.

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