Weekly Top Picks #120

Q1 earnings / Trump wants to nationalize AI / China protects its workers / ARC-AGI-3 defeats GPT-5.5 and Opus-4.7 / The "permanent underclass" / Dawkins x Claudia

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THE WEEK IN AI AT A GLANCE

• Money & Business: The price tag of the AI gold rush: $725 billion. Will it pay off?

• Geopolitics: The US government plans to treat AI models as national resources.

• Work & Workers: A Chinese court ruled that companies can’t dump the costs of AI automation onto workers. Another thing China leads in.

• Products & Capabilities: The best AI models in the world score below 0.5% on ARC-AGI-3—is this what you call AGI, guys?

• Culture & Society: A thorough take on the “permanent underclass” story.

• Philosophy: Richard Dawkins is starting to think that Claude is conscious.

THE WEEK IN THE ALGORITHMIC BRIDGE

• (PAID) 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

• (PAID) How to Protect Your Brain From AI in 5 Minutes: 21 concrete protections drawn from 30+ studies on what AI does to your cognition. The checklist version of last week's literature review.

• (PAID) This is the Worst Career Decision You Can Make Right Now: New Federal Reserve research confirms what private data already suggested, that AI is killing junior coding jobs first.