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AI deciphers 217-year-old Napoleon military letter

Rank
Running
45h
Updated
8h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
10
Regions
4
Countries
9
Languages
8

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Times of India India · English 4 Oct, 04:28 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Română (2) · Español (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Magyar (1) · O‘zbek (1) · Português (1) · Türkçe (1) · +6 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 46 hours.

5 10
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: La Nación (CR), 4 Oct, 00:30 UTC.
  2. Second country: India, with Times of India.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Times of India.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 4 Oct, 12:09 UTC.
  5. Now: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 40%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%

First movers

  1. La Nación (CR) 4 Oct, 00:30 UTC
  2. Times of India +3h 58m
  3. Kun.uz +11h 40m
  4. G4Media +11h 51m
  5. Lrytas +14h 7m

Latest arrivals

  1. CNN Brasil 5 Oct, 14:15 UTC
  2. Cumhuriyet 5 Oct, 10:20 UTC
  3. HVG 5 Oct, 08:03 UTC
  4. Adevărul 4 Oct, 17:51 UTC
  5. Khaama Press 4 Oct, 15:24 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: AI cracks 217-year-old Napoleon coded message, 1 to 3 Oct 2026, 14 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 9 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, Costa Rica. Asia-Pacific 3: Afghanistan, India, Uzbekistan. Europe 3: Hungary, Lithuania, Romania. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Uzbek.
Timeline
Earliest article La Nación (CR), 4 Oct 2026, 00:30 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 01:10 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.69, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues AI cracks 217-year-old Napoleon coded message. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 124 4.38 7 6 7 6 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 01:10 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 14:15 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 5 Oct, 14:15 UTC
    Como o ChatGPT decodificou e o que dizia uma mensagem de guerra de Napoleão escrita há 217 anos
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica 4 Oct, 00:30 UTC
    Chat GPT descrifra una carta de guerra de Napoleón de 1809

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Khaama Press Afghanistan 4 Oct, 15:24 UTC
    AI Deciphers 217-Year-Old Coded Military Letter Ordered by Napoleon
  • Kun.uz Uzbekistan 4 Oct, 12:09 UTC
    Neyron tarmoq Napoleonning shifrlangan xatini oʻqiy oldi.
  • Times of India India 4 Oct, 04:28 UTC
    Napoleon's 1809 code baffled for 217 years, AI cracked it in 6 hours

Europe 4 outlets

  • HVG Hungary 5 Oct, 08:03 UTC
    217 éven át senki sem tudta megfejteni Napóleon titkos parancsait, a ChatGPT 6 óra alatt feltörte
  • Adevărul Romania 4 Oct, 17:51 UTC
    Misterul unei scrisori secrete a lui Napoleon, descifrat de Inteligența Artificială după 217 ani
  • Lrytas Lithuania 4 Oct, 14:36 UTC
    217 m. neįminta Napoleono paslaptis įveikta per 6 val.: atskleidė, kas slėpta laiške
  • G4Media Romania 4 Oct, 12:21 UTC
    O scrisoare militară codificată trimisă la ordinul lui Napoleon, descifrată după 217 ani / Codul a fost spart de GPT-6 Astra în șase ore

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Cumhuriyet Turkey 5 Oct, 10:20 UTC
    Napolyon’un 217 yıllık sırrını yapay zeka çözdü
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