Weekly Top Picks #119
SpaceX + Cursor + Mistral / Jensen v Jensen / The job AI can't take / GPT-5.5 and ChatGPT Images 2.0 / An anti-grammar app / Terence Tao on the future
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THE WEEK IN AI AT A GLANCE
Money & Business: SpaceX + Cursor + Mistral.
Geopolitics: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went on the Dwarkesh podcast to talk AI and China.
Work & Workers: Economist Alex Imas has a good argument on why human labor won’t disappear even if AI gets really, really capable.
Products & Capabilities: OpenAI has released GPT-5.5 and ChatGPT Images 2.0; they’re good, but the most important questions remain unanswered.
Culture & Society: Anti-grammar is the new human-made status symbol.
Philosophy: Terence Tao on what AI means for mathematics.
THE WEEK IN THE ALGORITHMIC BRIDGE
(FREE) AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It: From looms to datacenters, the targets get harder to break, so the mob turns to people instead.
(PAID) 23 Questions Every Heavy AI User Should Ask: Seneca, Loyola, Franklin, and a surgeon walk into your monthly AI review.
(FREE) What the Studies Say About How AI Affects Your Brain: A (Very Big) Compilation: 30+ studies, one finding: AI makes your output better and your brain worse unless it's designed not to.
(PAID) Why You Can’t Trust Anthropic Anymore: The best AI model in the world is not for you, and that’s the new normal.
(PAID) How to Stand Out When Everyone Uses AI: Your future customers won't judge your work; their AI agents with X-ray vision will.
(FREE) How the AI Writing Panic Is Making Us All Worse Writers: You can't pattern-match your way out of a pattern-matcher.
