Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Cryptanalysts used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to crack two unsolved WWII Enigma messages.
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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
A historian says frontier models traced alchemical sources and broke an unsolved 1941 cipher.
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra autonomously broke the unsolved 1941 Enigma message MVUEH, writing its own simulator, Bombe code and archive research.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra decrypts a Nazi radio message in ten hours that went unsolved for 83 years
A Bloomberg developer used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to decrypt an 83-year-old Enigma-encrypted 1941 Wehrmacht radio message in about ten hours.
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