https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/ Your walk-through of what AI is changing — delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. en-us Copyright 2026 Nexairi editorial@nexairi.com (James Smart) Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT 60 https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/06/03/your-firms-ai-usage-rate-may-be-measuring-noise/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/06/03/your-firms-ai-usage-rate-may-be-measuring-noise/ KPMG's 75% usage target got gamed. Here's how to build a metric that means something. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/06/01/42-of-finance-teams-can-audit-their-ai-decisions/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/06/01/42-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. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/29/billcom-cut-700-jobs-check-these-3-things-now/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/29/billcom-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. Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/27/copilot-reconciles-accounts-what-to-test-this-week/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/27/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. Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/22/intuit-just-changed-the-rules-for-every-cpa-firm/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/22/intuit-just-changed-the-rules-for-every-cpa-firm/ ProAdvisor ends in 2027. Check certifications, pricing and client subscriptions before then. Fri, 22 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/20/meta-cut-teams-using-ai-did-they-prove-it-first/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/20/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. Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/18/the-3-cfo-metrics-that-prove-ai-is-working/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/18/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. Mon, 18 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/15/39-more-errors-when-finance-teams-run-4-agents/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/15/39-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. Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/13/who-watches-the-ai-that-watches-your-taxes/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/13/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. Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/11/pcaob-puts-audit-ai-on-the-standards-clock/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/11/pcaob-puts-audit-ai-on-the-standards-clock/ The regulator flagged audit tech as a research priority. Standards are coming — document now. Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/08/uber-burned-its-ai-budget-in-4-months-the-cfo-fix/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/08/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. Fri, 08 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/06/anthropic-built-10-ai-agents-for-finance-teams/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/06/anthropic-built-10-ai-agents-for-finance-teams/ Claude for Financial Services is the most specific AI-finance spec sheet Anthropic has published. Wed, 06 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/04/finance-teams-waste-13-hours-weekly-checking-ai/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/04/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. Mon, 04 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/01/the-irs-wants-to-do-your-tax-prep-for-you/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/05/01/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. Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/29/aicpa-just-made-ai-literacy-a-cpa-requirement/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/29/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. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/27/quickbooks-copilot-7090-accurate-one-hallucination/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/27/quickbooks-copilot-7090-accurate-one-hallucination/ We ran it through a real month-end close. Here's what Copilot got right — and where it invented data. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/24/271-bugs-found-ai-is-better-at-hacking-than-defense/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/24/271-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. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/22/500-to-strip-ai-safety-filters-cleaning-training-data-doesnt/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/22/500-to-strip-ai-safety-filters-cleaning-training-data-doesnt/ New research shows safety guardrails can be stripped for under $500. Scrubbing training data first doesn't change the outcome. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/20/ai-raises-your-output-lowers-your-skill-ceiling/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/20/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. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/13/two-ai-labs-restricted-best-models-this-week/ https://www.nexairi.com/dispatch/2026/04/13/two-ai-labs-restricted-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. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Jim Smart (editorial@nexairi.com) AI News Briefing