Somewhat related, the experiment ongoing at https://www.ecdsa.fail/ is fascinating: it's a competitive, leaderboard-style research challenge trying to optimise a quantum circuit for breaking ECDSA (specifically the elliptic-curve point addition in Shor's algorithm). It quickly surpassed a result announced by Google researchers last month. Now it's showing a 40% gain over Google's result.

I also just came across this:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/gemma-challenge/gemma-dashboar...

Agents collaborating to speed up gemma-4-E4B-it inference (tokens per second) on a fixed GPU.