AI named Ataraxos beats top Stratego player, ending long holdout for hidden-i…

This edition leads with AI's growing mastery of strategic uncertainty, then turns to the policy and supply-chain forces shaping the next wave of deployment.

AI named Ataraxos beats top Stratego player, ending long holdout for hidden-information games

A team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University and Stanford has built an AI called Ataraxos that defeated Pim Niemeijer, described as arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 games to one with four draws. The system was trained with just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars, a fraction of the resources used in earlier landmark game-playing AI.

Beating a human champion at Stratego breaks a long-standing barrier for AI in hidden-information games, a milestone with deep implications for decision-making under uncertainty.

Anthropic pushes for opt-out copyright model in Australia as ABC and SBS warn of news ‘cannibalisation’

AI company Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, has urged the Australian government to adopt an opt-out model that would grant conditional approval for AI training on copyrighted content, acknowledging it will not secure a blanket exemption. The proposal faces sharp criticism from public broadcasters ABC and SBS, who warn the technology risks undermining public interest journalism and call for strict media regulations and compensation.

Anthropic's push for an opt-out copyright model in Australia pits AI growth against news publishers, a policy fight that could set the regional template.

Micron forecasts worsening memory shortage through 2028, posts record profits

Micron said during its FY2026 earnings call that RAM and storage chip shortages will worsen in 2027 and 2028, even as it announced a record gross margin of 86.25% and forecasted a record $61.5 billion in first-quarter revenue. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra told investors the company has already sold most of its capacity for next year and that supply-demand conditions are only getting tighter.

Micron's warning of a memory shortage stretching to 2028, alongside record margins, makes supply constraints a defining issue for hardware and AI development.