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OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Opus Crack Enigma
Two frontier models just did something no human cryptanalyst managed in over two decades of trying. Within days of each other, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 each broke a German Army Enigma message that had sat unsolved since researchers first catalogued it as unbreakable.
By Elena MarchettiAwesome Agents Newsletter Blog

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Originally published by Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog on Sep 25, 2026.
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