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Trump says Scott Bessent won't be AI czar

President Donald Trump said Treasury Secretary Bessent doesn't want to be what the president is calling the "Super Intelligence czar."

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Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

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

  • OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus cracked two unsolved Enigma messages
  • Models demonstrated cryptanalytic skills, solving problems that took humans months
  • Only seven Enigma messages remain unbroken, one with known plaintext but unbroken code

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