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A man locked out of his own bitcoin fortune finally got back in — with a little help from an AI. After eight weeks of failed attempts and roughly three point five trillion password combinations tested by a brute-force service, the owner turned to Claude, which helped him recover nearly four hundred thousand dollars in trapped bitcoin. It's a reminder that AI's most meaningful moments are often deeply personal ones.
From individual wallets to entire law firms, AI is reshaping how professionals work. Legal tech company Clio just crossed five hundred million dollars in annual recurring revenue, a milestone that reflects how deeply AI tools have embedded themselves into legal workflows. Anthropic's own expanding ambitions in that space suggest the competition for professional markets is only heating up.
And across the Atlantic, the British government is putting serious money behind AI-powered tax enforcement. HMRC awarded a one hundred seventy five million pound contract to the data firm Quantexa to detect fraud and errors in tax returns. It raises familiar questions about algorithmic accountability — but also signals that governments are increasingly willing to let machines flag what human auditors might miss.
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