# Weekly Top Picks #120

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> Published: 2026-05-01 22:33:12+00:00

# 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)** 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):

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