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Developing story · 2 episodes · 25 Sept to 6 Oct

AI Deciphers Nazi Enigma Secrets

The saga chronicles how OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Opus AI systems have successfully decrypted previously unsolved Nazi Enigma messages, revealing hidden wartime communications. After the latest episode, both AI models have jointly broken two additional Enigma ciphers, expanding the recovered archive and confirming their unprecedented cryptographic capabilities.

  1. Generative AI & Modelsnew

    SentinelOne engineer uses GPT-6 Astra to crack 217-year-old Napoleonic cipher

    Carter Church, an engineer at SentinelOne, reported that he fed OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra a single image and prompt and the model unraveled a 217‑year‑old military cipher in about six hours. The…

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  2. Researchnew

    OpenAI Astra and Anthropic Claude Opus 5 decode unsolved Enigma messages

    Developer Carter Leffen used OpenAI's Astra model to decode an Enigma message that had remained unsolved since 2005. The model conducted its own archival research, found context clues, built an…

    3 sources
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OpenAIBloomberg LPAnthropicSentinelOneCryptianaGPT-6 AstraGPT-6 Astra Extra HighClaude Opus 5Carter LeffenFrode WeirerudJack WillisCarter Church
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