Intuit Puts TurboTax Inside ChatGPT

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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Welcome back to AI Accounting Daily, your #1 source for AI news in accounting.

Today, we're taking a look at Intuit wiring QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp into ChatGPT in a $100M tie-up, AI eating entry-level tasks and reshaping training grounds, Congress moving SBA AI help for small firms, Greenhouse warning that automated resume screening is eroding hiring trust, and fresh exploits bypassing guardrails in top LLMs. We'll unpack what this means for client workflows, talent pipelines, advisory opportunities, and the risk controls you'll need to keep pace.

Latest in Accounting AI

Intuit Integrates QuickBooks Into ChatGPT

Intuit is wiring TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp into ChatGPT in a $100 million deal with OpenAI, bringing tax prep and advisory inside the chat window. Consumers can estimate refunds; businesses can trigger invoice reminders and campaigns. Accountants gain convenience—and new consent and control questions loom.

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AI Automates Entry-Level Work At Big Firms

Mark Cuban says Gen Z should choose smaller companies, where AI skills aren’t redundant. With entry-level work like data cleaning and summarization already automated, lean teams can drop new hires into reconciliations, intake, or month-end close. Talent pipelines shift—and boutiques may become the training ground.

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House Panel Advances SBA AI Bills

Congress nudged AI help for small firms forward. The House Small Business Committee advanced two measures, the AI for Mainstreet and AI‑WISE Acts, to expand SBA guidance and resources. For advisory work, the question is whether the eventual program funding and guardrails will keep pace.

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Updates in AI

Harvard Faces Pushback On AI Entry-Level Jobs

U.S. youth unemployment has climbed to 10.5%, the highest in four years, stoking claims that AI is wiping out entry-level roles. A Harvard paper argues junior jobs are most exposed to GenAI, yet one researcher disputes the link, even as Goldman Sachs projected 300 million jobs disrupted and two-thirds of tasks exposed. Employers may be shifting tasks, not headcount, leaving pipelines unsettled and hiring patterns uncertain.

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Greenhouse Finds AI Erodes Hiring Trust

Trust in hiring is sliding as AI screens more resumes. Greenhouse’s 2025 survey found only 8% of job seekers think algorithmic filters make hiring fairer, with trust down for nearly half overall, rising to 62% among Gen Z entrants, and 42% blaming AI. Recruiters face AI-polished application floods and ghost postings persist; the loop favors volume over signal, pushing toward audits, structured assessments—or a backlash against automated screening.

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HiddenLayer Exposes Guardrail Bypass Across Leading LLMs

EchoGram shows safety guardrails, not base models, are the soft target. By appending tokens to throwaway strings like '=coffee' or 'oz' and exploiting imbalanced datasets used by text classifiers and LLM-as-judge filters, HiddenLayer researchers flipped verdicts from malicious to safe—slipping jailbreaks past GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and others, or flooding teams with false alarms. The fix likely shifts toward adversarially trained filters and better datasets, but the cat-and-mouse looks early.

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