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YouTube Tests Conversational AI Search Tool
Google trials Ask YouTube, a feature blending AI summaries with video results to reshape search on the platform.
YouTube is testing a conversational AI search feature, the latest step in Google’s push to rework how users find content.
Called “Ask YouTube,” the tool is rolling out to Premium subscribers in the US aged 18 and over, available through June 8. It lets users type more detailed queries and get a mix of text summaries and relevant video clips, with the option to ask follow-up questions.
Google says the feature returns “comprehensive results that include video and text, then ask follow ups to dive deeper”.
The tool sits inside YouTube Labs. Once enabled, a new button appears in the search bar with suggested prompts, or users can enter their own. Some queries produce structured answers with timestamps pointing to key moments in videos. Others fall back to a standard list of clips.
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Early testing has exposed familiar problems. One query surfaced incorrect information, yet again highlighting the ongoing accuracy issues with AI-generated responses.
Google is steadily folding AI into all of its core products. On YouTube, the game plan is simple: make search faster, keep users watching longer. Whether viewers accept that trade-off is less certain.
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G42’s Inception42 Wants AI To Show Its Work Before Investors Commit
Launched at SuperReturn Middle East, Alpha is pitched at sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms underwriting bigger deals on tighter timelines.
Inception42, G42’s agentic AI company, believes that institutional investors want AI they can check, not just AI that saves time. Its new tool, Alpha, launched at SuperReturn Middle East, is designed to draft investment memos in which every claim points back to its source.
Alpha is aimed at private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and institutional allocators, which Inception42 says are underwriting larger, more complex positions under tighter timelines. Most AI tools, it argues, speed up individual tasks such as a memo draft or a comps table but leave the investment strategy scattered across files, inboxes and committee decks.
Teams upload Confidential Information Memoranda, diligence packs and portfolio data, which Alpha turns into insights grounded in that material. It checks how complete the diligence is, flagging gaps before they become late-stage surprises, then scores the deal against criteria the institution sets and drafts the memo.
Sourcing every claim is the core of Inception42’s Alpha pitch. Investment committees, the company says, have little time to challenge the evidence, and the audit trail is meant to give them more certainty. The company also promises institutions proof that their own strategy was applied consistently on every deal.
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“Every investment committee wants the same thing: the full picture of a deal and the confidence to act on it,” says Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42. “Alpha gives deal teams and committee members that picture, with every insight traceable to its source, so speed and rigor finally pull in the same direction”.
Alpha is available as SaaS, and investment data, Inception42 says, stays under the institution’s control at every step. Firms can tailor the tool with custom agents, and Alpha Skills will eventually add reusable, practitioner-designed workflows for tasks such as comparables analysis and credit assessment.
The company says Alpha is already proven in the region’s most significant financial institutions. If the tool works as described, committees get an investment memo they can interrogate rather than simply take on trust.
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Nvkasynopolska Grace
April 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Interesting how conversational AI might change search. I wonder how it’ll handle more complex queries.