Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Researchers used language models from OpenAI and Anthropic to decipher two unsolved World War II Enigma messages. One model built an Enigma simulator and gathered historical context to recover text that resisted analysis for decades. The results offer historians and computer scientists automated methods to resolve stubborn cryptographic problems.

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