Anthropic engineer used Claude to factor RSA-896 in 10 days. 270 digits, ~30 GPU-years of compute, up to 2,048 GPUs running concurrently. Claude ported the classical algorithm to GPU autonomously.
Public record progression: 829 bits → 862 bits (Cognition's Devin) → 896 bits. Three record breaks in 16 days, all AI-driven.
No immediate threat to deployed systems. RSA-2048 remains secure. No quantum breakthrough, no novel algorithm—just classical math executed at unprecedented scale via AI orchestration.
$BTC unaffected. Uses ECDSA on secp256k1, not RSA. IonQ estimates 19,397 qubits over 26 days required to break it. Not remotely feasible yet.
Real signal: timeline compression. Multi-year research projects now collapsing into weeks. AI agents autonomously writing optimization code and managing thousands of GPUs without human supervision.
$ZEC NU7 upgrade goes live November 5 with quantum resistance. Timing suddenly looks prescient, not speculative.
Nothing broken today. Watch the acceleration, not the absolute numbers. When infrastructure timelines compress from years to weeks, risk models need recalibration.
Public record progression: 829 bits → 862 bits (Cognition's Devin) → 896 bits. Three record breaks in 16 days, all AI-driven.
No immediate threat to deployed systems. RSA-2048 remains secure. No quantum breakthrough, no novel algorithm—just classical math executed at unprecedented scale via AI orchestration.
$BTC unaffected. Uses ECDSA on secp256k1, not RSA. IonQ estimates 19,397 qubits over 26 days required to break it. Not remotely feasible yet.
Real signal: timeline compression. Multi-year research projects now collapsing into weeks. AI agents autonomously writing optimization code and managing thousands of GPUs without human supervision.
$ZEC NU7 upgrade goes live November 5 with quantum resistance. Timing suddenly looks prescient, not speculative.
Nothing broken today. Watch the acceleration, not the absolute numbers. When infrastructure timelines compress from years to weeks, risk models need recalibration.
