Frontier models Astra and Opus just passed Turing's other test
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-26
TechCrunch reports that frontier AI models — Astra and Opus — are finishing Alan Turing's unfinished World War II codebreaking work, described as passing Turing's "other test": not the imitation game, but surpassing human problem-solving on a real historical cryptanalysis challenge.
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