aiqbench analysis
This article details how LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic successfully decrypted historical Enigma messages previously considered unsolvable, marking a significant milestone in applying modern AI to complex cryptographic challenges. The event demonstrates the evolving capabilities of frontier models to perform autonomous archival research and simulate specialized hardware like the original Bombe machine.
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.
Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two…
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