https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/ Your walk-through of what AI is changing — delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 2026-06-03T08:00:00.000Z Copyright 2026 Nexairi James Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/06/03/your-firms-ai-usage-rate-may-be-measuring-noise/ 2026-06-03T08:00:00.000Z 2026-06-03T08:00:00.000Z

KPMG's 75% usage target got gamed. Here's how to build a metric that means something.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/06/01/42-of-finance-teams-can-audit-their-ai-decisions/ 2026-06-01T08:00:00.000Z 2026-06-01T08:00:00.000Z

Three in four finance teams run AI. Fewer than half can explain what it decided or why.

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Vendor risk in your AP stack, a Big Four AI signal and the judgment gap no one is talking about.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/27/copilot-reconciles-accounts-what-to-test-this-week/ 2026-05-27T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-27T08:00:00.000Z

Two Copilot Finance Agents went live in Excel this week. Here's what to activate before month-end.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/22/intuit-just-changed-the-rules-for-every-cpa-firm/ 2026-05-22T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-22T08:00:00.000Z

ProAdvisor ends in 2027. Check certifications, pricing and client subscriptions before then.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/20/meta-cut-teams-using-ai-did-they-prove-it-first/ 2026-05-20T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-20T08:00:00.000Z

Meta cited AI to cut headcount. CFOs who cannot show the same proof are in a weaker position.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/18/the-3-cfo-metrics-that-prove-ai-is-working/ 2026-05-18T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-18T08:00:00.000Z

Xero's agent builder is here, AICPA audit rules just changed and seat count is the wrong ROI metric.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/15/39-more-errors-when-finance-teams-run-4-agents/ 2026-05-15T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-15T08:00:00.000Z

BCG measured what happens when finance teams run 4+ AI agents at once. The error rate is 39% higher.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/13/who-watches-the-ai-that-watches-your-taxes/ 2026-05-13T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-13T08:00:00.000Z

126 systems and no governance plan. The IRS's AI audit expansion has outrun its oversight structure.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/11/pcaob-puts-audit-ai-on-the-standards-clock/ 2026-05-11T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-11T08:00:00.000Z

The regulator flagged audit tech as a research priority. Standards are coming — document now.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/08/uber-burned-its-ai-budget-in-4-months-the-cfo-fix/ 2026-05-08T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-08T08:00:00.000Z

Finance teams think seat counts are the win. Uber shows why that breaks before the year ends.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/06/anthropic-built-10-ai-agents-for-finance-teams/ 2026-05-06T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-06T08:00:00.000Z

Claude for Financial Services is the most specific AI-finance spec sheet Anthropic has published.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/04/finance-teams-waste-13-hours-weekly-checking-ai/ 2026-05-04T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-04T08:00:00.000Z

A Sage and IDC study puts a number on how much trust finance pros don't have in their AI tools yet.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/01/the-irs-wants-to-do-your-tax-prep-for-you/ 2026-05-01T08:00:00.000Z 2026-05-01T08:00:00.000Z

The agency already has your income data. A bill would let filers use it before you see it.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/29/aicpa-just-made-ai-literacy-a-cpa-requirement/ 2026-04-29T08:00:00.000Z 2026-04-29T08:00:00.000Z

The AICPA Skills Accelerator is the first formal AI curriculum for CPAs — here's what's in it.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/27/quickbooks-copilot-7090-accurate-one-hallucination/ 2026-04-27T08:00:00.000Z 2026-04-27T08:00:00.000Z

We ran it through a real month-end close. Here's what Copilot got right — and where it invented data.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/24/271-bugs-found-ai-is-better-at-hacking-than-defense/ 2026-04-24T08:00:00.000Z 2026-04-24T08:00:00.000Z

Anthropic's Mythos found 271 Firefox zero-days — 12x more than Claude Opus. Mozilla is patching fast.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/22/500-to-strip-ai-safety-filters-cleaning-training-data-doesnt/ 2026-04-22T08:00:00.000Z 2026-04-22T08:00:00.000Z

New research shows safety guardrails can be stripped for under $500. Scrubbing training data first doesn't change the outcome.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/20/ai-raises-your-output-lowers-your-skill-ceiling/ 2026-04-20T08:00:00.000Z 2026-04-20T08:00:00.000Z

MIT and Wharton studied this pattern across 30+ papers — and the lag is where the danger lives.

Jim Smart https://www.nexairi.com/author/jim-smart/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/13/two-ai-labs-restricted-best-models-this-week/ 2026-04-13T08:00:00.000Z 2026-04-13T08:00:00.000Z

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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