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Welcome, AI enthusiasts. Claude just pulled $400,000 in Bitcoin out of a wallet locked for nine years. The owner had burned 8 weeks and 3.5 trillion brute-force attempts before dumping his old college computer into Claude, which found a forgotten backup and debugged the recovery tool itself. AI is quietly turning into a forensic instrument. Let's dive in!
In today’s insights:
Claude helps Recovering $400K in Bitcoin After 9 Years
Anthropic Beats OpenAI in Business Adoption
WhatsApp Brings Incognito Mode to Meta AI
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Evolving AI: Claude helped a user recover around $400,000 in lost Bitcoin by debugging legacy wallet software.
Key Points:
A Bitcoin user recovered around 5 BTC from a wallet inaccessible since last 9 years.
Brute-force tools and 3.5 trillion password attempts over 8 weeks on rented GPUs delivered nothing.
Claude pieced together a 2019 wallet backup, a notebook seed phrase, and a bug inside btcrecover to make the decryption work.
Details:
The user spent 8 weeks running roughly 3.5 trillion password combinations through btcrecover and Hashcat on rented GPUs and got nowhere. As a last attempt, he dumped his entire old college computer into Claude. The model found an old 2019 wallet backup, matched it with a seed phrase from a college notebook, and used that older password to decrypt it. Since Bitcoin private keys never change, those same keys still controlled the current wallet. Claude also debugged an error inside btcrecover where a shared key and password were being concatenated in the wrong order.
Why It Matters:
Crypto recovery has always favored people who could throw hardware at the problem. GPU farms, forensic firms, brute-force tools costing thousands of dollars and weeks of compute. Claude flipped that. The fix was not more power. It was reading the right files and finding a bug nobody had noticed. With 3 to 4 million BTC estimated lost, the bottleneck for recovery may be shifting from compute to comprehension.
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🏆 Anthropic Beats OpenAI in Business Adoption
Evolving AI: Anthropic finally overtook OpenAI in paid business adoption, capping a year of steep enterprise growth.
Key Points:
Anthropic adoption among Ramp businesses climbed to 34.4% in April while OpenAI slipped to 32.3%, the first time Anthropic has held the top spot.
Anthropic adoption has gone from 9% to 34.4% in a year, while OpenAI essentially held flat.
The shift mirrors a broader pattern, with Anthropic now reportedly at a $30B revenue run rate against OpenAI's $25B.
Details:
Anthropic has actually led OpenAI in paid business adoption for the first month, according to Ramp's May AI Index, built on spend data from over 50,000 companies. The split was running 50/50 just 10 weeks ago, but Anthropic climbed to 34.4% in April as OpenAI slipped to 32.3%, pushing overall AI adoption to 50.6%. The same pattern shows up in revenue, where Anthropic has gone from roughly $1B in early 2025 to $30B today, a curve almost no software company has ever traced.
Why It Matters:
The assumption for the longest time was that ChatGPT's massive consumer base would just naturally roll into the office, and somehow that never really happened. Anthropic kept its head down on Claude Code, MCP, and the cloud deals, and ended up owning the workflows companies pay real money for. Turns out the most popular chatbot and the most used AI at work are starting to look like two pretty different things.
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Evolving AI: WhatsApp introduced Incognito Chat with Meta AI, with no stored conversation logs.
Key Points:
Whatsapp Incognito built on Private Processing, with chats invisible even to Meta.
Messages disappear by default and are not used for training.
Cybersecurity experts warn the lack of records could complicate accountability.
Details:
WhatsApp is launching Incognito Chat with Meta AI, built on its Private Processing tech. Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, said people want to ask AI about health, money and relationships without those chats being stored anywhere. CEO Mark Zuckerberg went further, calling it the first major AI product with no log of conversations on servers. It handles text only at launch, with broader features rolling out over the next few months.
Why It Matters:
A quiet shift is happening in how AI chat gets sold. For two years the pitch was capability, with retention buried in the fine print. Now lawsuits forcing OpenAI to keep deleted chats, plus new state laws on chatbot data, are making "we don't store this" a feature in its own right. Meta moving first is interesting precisely because trust has never been its strength. Privacy is becoming the new model spec.
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