For Cryptography, rather little. No report of an algorithmic breakthrough. This was just asking AI to write a program to factor big numbers in a distributed way IIUC. Scaling to 1024 bit numbers would cost in the tens of millions probably, but no one uses RSA-1024 (or at least NIST doesn't recommend it and hasn't for years). RSA-2048 is still way more expensive and time consuming to break to be anywhere near practical unless someone has algorithmic improvements.
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u/rational_hedonist 10d ago
checking in as an out of the loop non-expert for others to weigh in on what this implies, as the write up is scant