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Professional services firm cited as building an AI router that sends tasks to cheaper models rather than defaulting to the frontier.
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The AI accounting startup raised $100mn led by ICONIQ and names Oracle, SAP, Workday, Microsoft and NetSuite as pre-AI relics. Its proof point is a finance team of three.
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Hillary Salo takes the FASB chair on July 1, 2027 through June 2034. She is the insider who helped build the current agenda, which tells reporting teams what to budget for.
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Average programs run $2.3 million and 15,000 hours while 57% of internal audit functions hold headcount flat. The diligence is now about evidence layers, not demos.
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A new Career Residency keeps assurance interns on part-time for 8 to 12 months, then starts them a rung higher. EY's consulting head says AI absorbed the "assembly" work.
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The CFPB dropped its rule treating buy now/pay later like credit cards. EU affordability checks bite in November, and any US provider selling into Europe inherits them anyway.
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A telecom moving workloads off frontier vendors, a Big Four firm inventing "agent economics," and a widening youth employment gap all point at the same unglamorous work.
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A reported breach of roughly 200,000 customer records at Bits of Gold shows what a KYC mandate actually builds: one file worth more than the coins it sits beside.
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The firm's new AI Value Realization Office will govern model selection, usage and scaling decisions. The savings figure is company-reported, and the operating model is still undisclosed.
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The firm is standing up an AI Value Realization Office that takes AI money out of departmental budgets, on the argument that functional funding is what strands most of the value.
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Two separate valuers cut Canva the same way after a third came off its growth forecast. The stated cause was compute cost the company could not pass on to customers.
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