1024-bit RSA computation reproduced in 3 days 22 hours… approved by a human

Google DeepMind's AI agents reproduced a 1024-bit RSA signature computation in 3 days and 22 hours, from design through result verification, with human researchers sending only about 20 messages. A supervisor agent handled design, compute budgeting and step-by-step validation, while an execution agent wrote code, ran distributed tasks and fixed errors, with a separate auxiliary agent brought in for one linear-algebra step. Humans set the experiment's goals and compute conditions and approved irreversible stages rather than writing code or managing the distributed work directly. The result matters as an early demonstration of agent-driven orchestration of a large, multi-step cryptographic computation under human sign-off. What to watch next is whether the approach scales to larger RSA sizes and other heavy workloads, and how much human oversight remains necessary.