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The AI Price war
Last week, DeepSeek quietly made something permanent that most enterprise software buyers haven’t noticed yet. A 75% discount on their best model — originally a promotional event set to expire May 31 — is now just the price. No expiration. No asterisk. That means running 100 million output tokens through DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about $348…
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What Forrester’s AI Consulting Rankings Actually Tell Accountants
Forrester just dropped its Q2 2026 Wave on AI Consulting Services — the independent ranking of the 10 firms competing for the biggest AI transformation budgets in the world. The Leaders: PwC, Accenture, EY, IBM. Strong Performers: Capgemini, BCG, KPMG, McKinsey. Contenders: Deloitte and Bain. The headline isn’t who won. It’s why — and the reason has…
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AI Made the Powerpoint Problem Worse
A few weeks ago I was sitting with a team at a client engagement. Someone pulled up a 20-slide deck they’d just had AI build in about a minute. It looked great — clean design, consistent branding, well-structured sections. The actual risk finding from the engagement was on slide 14. Third sub-bullet. Under “Other Considerations.”…
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When Everyone Has Claude, Nobody Has an Advantage
Last week, two of the Big Four signed major firm-wide deals with Anthropic in the span of about seven days. PwC announced it’s training and certifying 30,000 professionals on Claude. KPMG announced its Digital Gateway — embedding Claude into its core delivery platform for all 276,000-plus global employees. Deloitte already has an existing Anthropic relationship.…
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The Always-On Ledger: What AI Agents Mean for Internal Controls
AI agents that monitor your internal financial data 24/7 are arriving in enterprise tools now. Here’s what that means for how accountants design controls.
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SpaceX Just Filed for IPO — Here’s What the S-1 Actually Says
SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20, 2026. Here’s what the numbers actually say — and what accountants and finance professionals need to know before clients start asking.
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The AI Backlash Is Real — Here’s What Finance Professionals Need to Know
Public sentiment toward AI has soured faster than almost any technology in history. Here’s how accountants and finance leaders should communicate with employees and clients.
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Your AI Bill Just 30x’d — Now What?
Enterprise AI costs are no longer predictable. Here’s why your client’s bill jumped 30x — and the ROI framework finance teams need to justify it.
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Claude’s Finance Agent Templates: Useful Tools, Not a Revolution
Anthropic launched 10 financial services agent templates and 15 small business workflows this week. Here’s what they actually do — and what they don’t.
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Why Your Firm’s AI Conversations Keep Breaking Down
Your CFO wants to move faster on AI. Your risk team wants to slow down. Neither one is wrong — they’re solving completely different problems. Here’s the framework that fixes it.
