GPT-5.6 Cracked the Same Quantum Crypto Problem Twice — Three Hours Apart

Two independent teams of researchers found a solution to an unsolved problem in quantum cryptography (unclonable encryption) within 3 hours of each other using GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra. These teams included Seyun Ragan (PhD student at MIT), some professors from UC Santa Barbara and UCLA. All of them were working on this problem separately, with different approaches but the same model.

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