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1️⃣ Road to recovery: With low unemployment rates and booming home construction, Asheville and Tampa were both economic success stories before Hurricanes Helene and Milton came along. Those areas might be able to bounce back faster than you think.

2️⃣ Fighting fraud: The federal government’s use of artificial intelligence to fight financial crime appears to be paying off. Machine learning helped the US Treasury Department recover $1 billion worth of check fraud in one year, and it’s just getting started.

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