AI Agent Cracks RSA-260 Math Problem in 4 Days

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Cognition used its autonomous software engineering agent Devin to build a GPU siever that cut the cost of factoring a 260-digit integer to one-tenth of previous levels, and estimated breaking RSA-1024 at roughly $30 million.

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