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2026-09-20
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artificial-intelligence
Claude Helped Factor RSA-896, A 270-Digit Encryption Challenge, Says Anthropic Engineer
Anthropic engineer Steve Weis announced that Claude ported the decades-old CADO-NFS factoring tool to GPUs and orchestrated up to 2,048 idle chips over about 10 days to factor RSA-896, a 270-digit, 89…