🔴 AI is scary: Anthropic Claude factorizes RSA-896

Anthropic engineer Stephen A. Weis announced on September 19 that he had factored RSA-896, an 896-bit number from the historic RSA Factoring Challenge, into two prime factors using Claude and a fleet of 2048 GPUs. The result raises the public threshold for factoring RSA-like numbers from 862 to 896 bits, just 16 days after the previous record, but does not imply breaking modern RSA-2048 keys.