NIST ECDSA seeds solved by Claude in 30 monutes
 

So after human researchers spent decades, AI in 30 minutes tries the old C 48 bit lrand PRNG and immediately solves an old question that had an active bounty.

The $36,864 bounty for finding the seeds will be donated to the Internet Security Research Group.

I had always assumed they had some more mathematical reason behind it. Kind of surprised it is something so simple.

Official write-up: https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins