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- A Game Plan for the AI Boom
Thore Graepel may have been the first human to be vanquished by a superintelligence. In 2015, on his first day as a researcher at Google DeepMind, he was challenged to play against the earliest iteration of AlphaGo—a computer program developed by DeepMind that would prove so effective at the ancient-Chinese game of weiqi (or Go, as it is commonly known in the West) that it changed how humans play it, and then upended the field of AI itself.When Graepel faced it, AlphaGo was just a “baby” project, as he put it to me, and he was an accomplished amateur player. But it still took him down. Then, the following year, AlphaGo—now fully developed—plowed through a number of human champions, ultimately crushing Lee Sedol, widely considered the best player in the world, with a match score of 4–1. This month marked the tenth anniversary of that victory.For decades, developing a program that plays Go at an elite level was an infamous problem in computer science. Many considered it unsolvable—far harder than developing a similar program for chess, in which the supercomputer DeepBlue beat the world champion in 1997. In Go, two players take turns positioning stones on a 19-by-19 grid, and their movements are relatively unrestricted. In chess, which has a far smaller grid, a rook can move only horizontally and a bishop only diagonally, but Go pieces can be placed on any open space. The number of possible Go positions is so high that it cannot be easily expressed in words; it is higher than the number of atoms in the observable universe, and orders of magnitude higher than the number of possible chess games. Today, the technical frameworks and approaches that allowed an algorithm to excel at this board game have translated fairly directly into bots that can write advanced code, help tackle open problems in mathematics, and replicate scientific discoveries from scratch.Generative AI is living in AlphaGo’s shadow. Beyond the actual models, “conceptual things emerged from the whole AlphaGo experience which essentially entered the AI vocabulary,” Pushmeet Kohli, the vice president of science and strategic initiatives at Google DeepMind, told me. In many ways, Go and chess provide ideal templates for understanding how the AI boom has unfolded—and a guide for what it may yet wreak.DeepMind’s innovation was to essentially pair two algorithms: one AI model to propose moves and a second model to judge whether a move… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Senator Torpedoes Key Trump Talking Point With Simple Question
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked a straightforward question about President Donald Trump that totally undercuts the president’s claims about the Iran war. About two hours before markets in the U.S. opened, Trump claimed on Truth Social that he is in “serious discussions” with Iran and that “great progress” had been made toward ending the war. It was later reported that the president was in talks with Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has previously denied speaking with the Trump administration. The Dow jumped about 300 points before closing the day up 50. On Sunday, Ghalibaf even suggested Trump would post something markets would interpret as bullish news. “Heads-up: Pre-market so-called ‘news’ or ‘Truth’ is often just a setup for profit-taking. Basically, it’s a reverse indicator,” the speaker tweeted. “Do the opposite: If they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long. See something tomorrow? You know the drill.” Van Hollen appeared on Monday’s edition of The Arena on CNN, where guest host Abby Phillip asked the senator if believes Trump is actually talking to the Iranians. “Do you think it’s possible that they are speaking with someone in the Iranian regime?” she inquired. “And do you believe that those talks represent progress?” “Look, we know Donald Trump is a serial liar,” Van Hollen responded. “Of course, the big lie he told the country was that he was going to keep us out of foreign wars and not drag us into another war in the Middle East. We also know he’s been lying when he claimed that we were in direct negotiations with the Iranians, and that they’re going to give us everything we wanted. As to whether or not we’re in indirect negotiations through third parties, that’s certainly possible.” The senator then pointed to remarks Trump made since almost the beginning of the war, where he has repeatedly said the U.S. had “won” the war or that the war was close to ending. “But the notion that we’re near a big breakthrough is delusional,” Van Hollen continued. “And let’s remember that Donald Trump, about three weeks ago, said that we won the war. Those are his words. We won the war. So the question is, what are we negotiating about right now, Abby, if we already won the war? Watch above via CNN.The post Senator Torpedoes Key Trump Talking Point With Simple Question first appeared… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘Is Donald Trump Well?’ MS NOW’s Katy Tur Does Deep Dive on President’s ...MS NOW anchor Katy Tur asked her viewers on Monday if President Donald Trump is still mentally fit, taking a deep dive into polls showing a growing number of Americans are starting to ask the question. “Is Donald Trump well? Is his head in the presidency? Does he have the mental acuity to lead this country?” Tur began to kick off the segment, adding: More people are starting to doubt that — beyond, of course, Democrats who have always doubted it. This is being borne out in two new polls: the first one from the Washington Post, ABC, and Ipsos, which finds the number of people who think he lacks the mental sharpness to serve effectively is now climbing to 56%; and the second, from Reuters and Ipsos, which shows six in 10 Americans now say President Trump is becoming more erratic as he ages. That includes a growing number of Democrats, independents, and Republicans. Why is that? Well, the apparent sleeping during cabinet meetings and Oval Office visits probably isn’t helping. Neither are the stories about how he’s forcing his top aides to wear his preferred brand of shoes — buying them in incorrect sizes that he’s guessed they wear. He also doesn’t sound as energetic and clear as he did even a few years ago, comparatively speaking, of course. Case in point: the wild asides mid-thought. He has always done that to a degree, but now he’s doing it in the middle of White House cabinet meetings, largely defined by deadly serious issues like the war in Iran or alleged political prosecutions. Listen to this one, when the president took a sharp left turn during complaints about what he argues is criminally wasteful spending for construction at the Federal Reserve. Tur then played a reel of showing some of what she was talking about: You could have done that building — if it was properly done and planned, you would have done the building for… I would have done it for $25 million, and it would be better, it would be better. See this pen right here? This pen is an interesting example — it’s the same thing. So this pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well. I like it, but I can’t have the pen the way it was — you know what it is. I don’t want to give too much publicity, but… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- What to Know About California’s Executive Order on A.I.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, plans to issue an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘Trump Has Profound Problems’: Nate Silver Warns of Major New Polling Low fo...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump’s approval rating dropped to its lowest-ever second term mark in Nate Silver’s tracking, the pollster reported on Monday. The president has had negative poll results throughout his second term. An April 2025 Pew Research Center survey found him underwater with all demographic groups except Republicans and self-identified Trump voters and on all issues that were polled, including the economy, immigration, health care, trade, and foreign policy. A YouGov poll last month found a clear majority of Americans blaming Trump’s tariffs for higher prices and cheering the Supreme Court decision that struck them down. The latest updates to Silver’s ongoing poll tracking showed “Trump’s numbers keep trending down,” he reported, with the president’s approval rating falling below 40 percent for the first time in his second term, and hitting “a new low.” Trump's approval rating just fell below 40 percent in our tracking for the first time. And his net approval rating is now -17.4, also a new low and down about 5 points over the past several weeks. pic.twitter.com/RFncMOefXZ — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 30, 2026 It was not just one factor that was dragging Trump down, Silver added, and the president now has “profound problems,” even with his base MAGA voters. Obviously, gas prices are a big factor. But Trump has profound problems. There *are* signs of erosion among his base. Only 22% of Americans have a *strongly* favorable view of Trump. 2028 aspirants are starting to pull away from him. One wonders about the effect of his age, too. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 30, 2026 “Obviously, gas prices are a big factor,” wrote Silver, and Trump was now showing “signs of erosion among his base.” “Only 22% of Americans have a *strongly* favorable view of Trump,” he continued. “2028 aspirants are starting to pull away from him. One wonders about the effect of his age, too.” In the latest issue of Silver’s newsletter, he elaborated on what was contributing to Trump’s polling struggles, pointing out that Trump had seen a “remarkably linear” decline in his approval ratings, with “peaks and valleys” that “correlate with particular news events,” like the imposition of his tariffs, the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the shutdown over DHS funding, and start of the Iran War. After Trump’s numbers took hits after these… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying TrumpThe battle over who should regulate artificial intelligence is turning into an epic clash between President Trump and states like California and Utah. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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