Reinforcement learning improves forecasting of world events

Claim

Mantic and Thinking Machines demonstrated significant gains in world-event forecasting by applying reinforcement learning, training models to predict the future with the rigor they use to parse the past.

Reporting date: 2026-03-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to March 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)