Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.

AI 'deduced' the solution to an Enigma code that no one had been able to crack for 21 years

July 10, 1941. A German soldier encrypted a short radio message using an Enigma machine. It was 82 characters long. This ...

Alan Turing

English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had previously been involved with ...

"IT News" | The AI solved it, but it was a human who confirmed it was correct—Astra and Claude Opus 5 decrypt previously unsolved Enigma codes

IntroductionOn September 25, 2026, TechCrunch published an article titled "Astra and Opus just passed Turing's other test." ...
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Nazi Enigma encryption machine sells for $106,250 at auction

A rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to communicate without interception and translation by opposing nations fetched $106,250 at auction Saturday. The buyer’s identity was not ...
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Astra, Opus crack 2 Enigma messages left unsolved for decades

Astra and Opus have successfully passed a significant test inspired by Alan Turing, demonstrating advancements in artificial ...
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Divers Pull Rare Surviving WWII Enigma Cipher Machine from Bottom of the Baltic

This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...
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How the Allies cracked the Enigma code | Bletchley Park with Dan Snow

Bletchley Park is now internationally famous as the home of the code-breakers during World War Two. But the endeavours of Alan Turing, Dilly Knox and their colleagues were so top secret that we are ...