At the very least I think this is deceptive because the source (If you keep clicking on links) for the 40 percent savings is the original blog post, and there's no other information saying things have been rolled out fully, yet the Verge is seems to imply that here.

I am somewhat convinced that something resembling RL was used based on your argument in the other thread, but I think even you would agree that calling it "a variant of alphago" is a pretty big stretch.