In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game’s 1,500-year history. Grandmaster Simon Williams joked: ‘On December 6, 2017, AlphaZero took over the chess world, eventually solving the game and finally enslaving the human race as pets’. Comment Conspiracy Source
Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency related to “serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world” and imposed sanctions on 13 individuals, using his authority under the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act. The Treasury Department sanctioned an additional 39 people. Comment Politics Source
