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Friday, January 2, 2026

AI Accounting Daily
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Today, AI cuts jobs, CFOs tap the brakes, and exam rules snap. AI cut 950,000 jobs this year, and the richest robot owner hates a tax. Top finance leaders now want to slow AI, and their reason is not fear. And one big group banned AI from exams, replaying an old tech scare script.

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Latest in Accounting AI

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AI Cut 950K Jobs This Year. It Pays Zero Taxes.

AI cut 950,000 jobs this year. Paid zero in payroll taxes. Companies get the savings twice. Once on labor, again on the taxes that fund unemployment. Bill Gates wants a robot tax. Elon Musk doesn't. Guess which one owns more robots.
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2

CFOs' Big AI Resolution: Slow Down

CFOs' big 2025 resolution? Slow down on AI. Yeah, really. McKinsey found only 1% of companies consider themselves 'mature' here. Everyone else is stacking shiny tools on broken data and legacy systems held together by hope. The boring foundation work you've been skipping? Not optional anymore.
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3

ACCA Banned AI From Exams. We've Seen This Movie Before.

ACCA banned AI from exams. So students will prove they can do work they'll never actually do once certified. We've seen this movie before. Calculators. Spreadsheets. The internet. The profession adapted every time. Wonder how long they hold out.
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Updates in AI

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AI ‘Cloud’ Is Actually Debt-Fueled Texas Concrete

"The cloud" is 35 square miles of Texas concrete, $325 billion in debt, and a coal plant cranking at full capacity. Microsoft bought a nuclear reactor. Google's fighting farmers for grid access in Abilene. That AI dashboard you're demoing to clients? Its power bill is about to show up on yours.
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2

Google’s Shiny Gemini Still Steals ChatGPT’s Homework

Google's Gemini just got caught copying ChatGPT's homework. Not inspired by. Not similar to. Researchers found it spitting out the exact same phrases and quirks. A $2 trillion company's flagship AI, apparently trained on its competitor's outputs. Makes you wonder what else got recycled into the tools you're betting your firm on.
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3

OpenAI, Anthropic Just Drank $150B of VC Money

$150 billion in VC money went to AI last year. More than the entire dot-com era. OpenAI alone raised $40 billion. Last time money moved this fast, most of it vanished. But sure. Definitely different this time.
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