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☀️ On this day: On June 22, 1633, the Roman Inquisition sentenced 69-year-old Galileo Galilei, found "vehemently suspect of heresy" for arguing that the Earth moves around the Sun, and made him kneel and recant his life's work. He spent his final nine years under house arrest, where he still wrote Two New Sciences, his foundational text on motion and the strength of materials. The Catholic Church formally acknowledged its error in 1992, 359 years after the trial.

What’s happening:

  • 🩺 66 million Americans use AI for health advice

  • 🤖 GM laid off 1,000 workers, then hired robots

  • 🖼️ Getty's photos are coming to ChatGPT

  • 📱 TikTok greets new users with mostly AI junk

  • 🗣️ Tencent plays AI catch-up with its biggest weapon

  • + 📊 Daily poll and results

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🩺 Americans now ask AI before asking a doctor ↗️LINK

  • A West Health-Gallup survey found 1 in 4 US adults, about 66 million people, have asked an AI chatbot for physical or mental health information. Most use it to supplement care, not replace a doctor.

  • Cost drives a lot of it. Among adults earning under $24,000 a year, 32% turned to AI because they couldn't afford a doctor, compared with just 2% of those earning $180,000 or more.

  • Confidence runs thin, though. Only 4% strongly trust AI's health answers, and 1 in 10 users say they got advice they considered dangerous, yet roughly 14 million skipped a doctor's visit anyway.

🤖 GM laid off 1,000 workers, then hired robots ↗️LINK

  • GM laid off more than 1,000 workers at its Factory Zero EV plant in Detroit, then installed about 50 Fanuc cobots that bolt body panels onto vehicles alongside the workers who stayed.

  • GM is leaning on automation as costs climb. It estimated the 2023 UAW contract added about $500 in labor costs per vehicle. UAW Local 22 filed grievances, and president James Cotton said members are "disgusted."

  • GM isn't alone. Toyota put Digit humanoids in its Ontario RAV4 plant and BMW is expanding its robot pilot to Germany. The catch for the union: robots don't renegotiate every four years.

🖼️ Getty's photos are coming to ChatGPT ↗️LINK

  • Getty signed a multi-year deal letting OpenAI show its licensed photos inside ChatGPT search and discovery results, so your next answer from the chatbot might arrive with a properly licensed image attached.

  • The move marks a sharp reversal for Getty, which banned AI-generated art in 2022 and later sued Stability AI for copyright violations. It struck a similar image deal with Perplexity back in October 2025.

  • Investors cheered hard, sending Getty's stock up nearly 150% in premarket trading. One quieter detail: Getty won't say whether OpenAI can train on its images, even though its Perplexity deal flatly banned that.

📱 New TikTok users see mostly AI-made videos ↗️LINK

  • A Kapwing study found 59% of the first 500 videos TikTok served a brand-new account were AI slop, meaning low-quality machine-made clips. That triples YouTube's rate of 21% in the same test.

  • The numbers come from a cold-start feed, before TikTok learns your tastes. Across a wider 10,742-video sample, kids' content topped every category at 57%, while fitness, music and fashion stayed under 2%.

  • The kids' corner is the worst of it. In the #CartoonKids tag, 97 of 100 videos were AI-made, leaving exactly three that a human actually bothered to create.

🗣️ Tencent tests an AI assistant inside WeChat ↗️LINK

  • Tencent started testing Xiaowei, an AI assistant baked into WeChat, with a small group of users. It takes text or voice commands to send messages, place calls, and run the app's mini-programs.

  • Tencent is chasing rivals like Alibaba, DeepSeek and Zhipu, and WeChat's 1.4 billion users give it a built-in audience. Xiaowei mainly runs on Tencent's own WeLM model, leaning on DeepSeek for some queries.

  • There's a twist here. Tencent leans on DeepSeek, one of the very rivals it's racing to catch, to power part of an assistant meant to prove it belongs in that race.

Today’s Poll:

Do you think AI giving health advice does more good than harm overall?

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Yesterday’s Poll Result:

Do you feel nervous about how much money is being poured into AI?

  • A) Yes - 68% 🏆

  • B) No - 32%

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