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ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 85-year-old 1941 Enigma-coded message in two days — autonomous AI coded its own simulator to crack code that was unsolved since it was shared online back in 2005

ChatGPT-6 Astra has decrypted a 1941 Enigma-coded message that remained unsolved for nearly two decades after being posted online in 2005. To achieve this, the AI autonomously developed its own simulator to test decryption strategies over a two-day period. This demonstration highlights the capability of current models to perform complex, multi-step tasks by building specialized internal tools to address long-standing computational puzzles.

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