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Your firm's AI usage rate may be measuring noise
KPMG's 75% usage target got gamed. Here's how to build a metric that means something.
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42% of finance teams can audit their AI decisions
Three in four finance teams run AI. Fewer than half can explain what it decided or why.
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BILL.com cut 700 jobs. Check these 3 things now.
Vendor risk in your AP stack, a Big Four AI signal and the judgment gap no one is talking about.
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Copilot reconciles accounts: what to test this week
Two Copilot Finance Agents went live in Excel this week. Here's what to activate before month-end.
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Intuit just changed the rules for every CPA firm
ProAdvisor ends in 2027. Check certifications, pricing and client subscriptions before then.
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Meta cut teams using AI. Did they prove it first?
Meta cited AI to cut headcount. CFOs who cannot show the same proof are in a weaker position.
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The 3 CFO metrics that prove AI is working
Xero's agent builder is here, AICPA audit rules just changed and seat count is the wrong ROI metric.
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39% more errors when finance teams run 4+ agents
BCG measured what happens when finance teams run 4+ AI agents at once. The error rate is 39% higher.
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Who watches the AI that watches your taxes?
126 systems and no governance plan. The IRS's AI audit expansion has outrun its oversight structure.
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PCAOB puts audit AI on the standards clock
The regulator flagged audit tech as a research priority. Standards are coming — document now.
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Uber burned its AI budget in 4 months: the CFO fix
Finance teams think seat counts are the win. Uber shows why that breaks before the year ends.
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Anthropic built 10 AI agents for finance teams
Claude for Financial Services is the most specific AI-finance spec sheet Anthropic has published.
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Finance teams waste 13 hours weekly checking AI
A Sage and IDC study puts a number on how much trust finance pros don't have in their AI tools yet.
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The IRS wants to do your tax prep for you
The agency already has your income data. A bill would let filers use it before you see it.
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AICPA just made AI literacy a CPA requirement
The AICPA Skills Accelerator is the first formal AI curriculum for CPAs — here's what's in it.
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QuickBooks Copilot: 70–90% accurate, one hallucination
We ran it through a real month-end close. Here's what Copilot got right — and where it invented data.
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271 bugs found: AI is better at hacking than defense
Anthropic's Mythos found 271 Firefox zero-days — 12x more than Claude Opus. Mozilla is patching fast.
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$500 to strip AI safety filters. Cleaning training data doesn't help.
New research shows safety guardrails can be stripped for under $500. Scrubbing training data first doesn't change the outcome.
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AI raises your output, lowers your skill ceiling
MIT and Wharton studied this pattern across 30+ papers — and the lag is where the danger lives.
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Two AI Labs Restricted Their Best Models This Week
OpenAI and Anthropic both decided their newest AI is too dangerous to release openly. Four stories from a week when capability concerns finally made labs blink.
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