ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 85-year-old 1941 Enigma message in two days
luisdans · x · 2026-09-27
Per Tom's Hardware, ChatGPT-6 'Astra' cracked an 85-year-old Enigma-coded message from 1941 in two days. The message had been unsolved since it was shared online in 2005; the AI autonomously wrote its own Enigma simulator to pull it off.
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