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  "id": 8855620,
  "title": "A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (prinz)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/a-researcher-used-gpt-6-astra-to-decipher-a-wwi-german-radio",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-21T05:55:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
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    "url": "https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range …",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 108-year-old unsolved WWI German code for the first time — radio message sharing enemy movement intelligence had evaded decoding, 1918 Crimean fleet warning verified against HMS Canterbury logs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/chatgpt-6-astra-cracks-108-year-old-unsolved-wwi-german-code-for-the",
        "published": "2026-09-19T15:02:02.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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