{"slug": "weekly-top-picks-120", "title": "Weekly Top Picks #120", "summary": "The AI industry has spent $725 billion in a high-stakes gamble on returns, while the U.S. government moves to nationalize AI models as strategic resources. A Chinese court ruled companies cannot offload automation costs onto workers, and top AI models scored below 0.5% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, challenging claims of artificial general intelligence. Richard Dawkins now believes Claude may be conscious, as debates over a \"permanent underclass\" intensify.", "body_md": "# Weekly Top Picks #120\n\n### 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\n\n*Hey there, I’m Alberto! 👋 Each week, I publish long-form AI analysis covering culture, philosophy, and business for The Algorithmic Bridge. Paid subscribers also get Monday how-to guides and Friday news commentary. I publish occasional extra articles. If you’d like to become a paid subscriber, here’s a button for that:*\n\n## THE WEEK IN AI AT A GLANCE\n\n**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.\n\n## THE WEEK IN THE ALGORITHMIC BRIDGE\n\n**(PAID)** 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[Weekly Top Picks #119](https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/weekly-top-picks-119):**(PAID)** 21 concrete protections drawn from 30+ studies on what AI does to your cognition. The checklist version of last week's literature review.[How to Protect Your Brain From AI in 5 Minutes](https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-to-protect-your-brain-from-ai):**(PAID)** New Federal Reserve research confirms what private data already suggested, that AI is killing junior coding jobs first.[This is the Worst Career Decision You Can Make Right Now](https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/this-is-the-worst-career-decision):\n\n## Keep reading with a 7-day free trial\n\nSubscribe to The Algorithmic Bridge to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/weekly-top-picks-120", "canonical_source": "https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/weekly-top-picks-120", "published_at": "2026-05-01 22:33:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 00:24:18.936486+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "ai-research", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Alberto", "The Algorithmic Bridge", "Richard Dawkins", "Claude", "OpenAI", "ARC-AGI", "GPT-5.5", "Opus-4.7"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/weekly-top-picks-120", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/weekly-top-picks-120.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/weekly-top-picks-120.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/weekly-top-picks-120.jsonld"}}