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Deloitte is one of the "Big Four" global professional services firms, offering audit, tax, consulting, and advisory services worldwide.
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BBC Panorama and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism allege Deloitte Cyprus signed off accounts that hid $672m of Abramovich assets. The claims are untested and rest on leaked files, but they bear on how independent a sign-off is when the administrator and the accountant work as a pair.
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Workday signed a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai, an agentic identity platform, with closing expected in the quarter ending Jan. 31, 2027. With C1.ai, Workday says it will become the identity governance layer for people, money and agents.
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Deloitte's poll of 66 UK finance chiefs found 52% expect AI to cut headcount within a year, but only a third expect it to lift margins. The 19-point gap rests on a sample where the 52% itself is soft by about 12 points.
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FIS launched an agentic AI suite for CFOs that forecasts cash and scores risk, citing Deloitte data of 46% interest and 14% integration. In PYMNTS Intelligence data, 97% of the weakest middle-market firms already use AI in treasury, so forecast accuracy is the test.
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By 2028, Gartner expects 70% of enterprises to walk away from agentic AI that vendor forward-deployed engineers built. A dev.to post blames pod design, a link Gartner does not draw.
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BBC Panorama says accounts Deloitte signed off in Cyprus removed $672m of Abramovich's superyachts, mansions and jets from his company books. The claims draw on a leak of thousands of documents dated 1995 to 2022. Boards that lean on a big-four signature have an allegation to weigh this quarter.
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Pigment's Q3 2026 CFO Index found 83% of respondents saw consumption-based AI costs come in above expectations. Budget owners should expect central sign-off and milestone gates, though CloudZero's survey has 87% still planning to spend more.
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Amazon, IBM and the White House expect the first fault-tolerant quantum computers around 2028 or 2029, a timeline that has shortened in recent years. Investors have followed, pushing IonQ up more than 300% since 2024, well before any fault-tolerant machine exists.
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Australia's government is weighing a universal child care system alongside Medicare and the NDIS after parents' out-of-pocket costs rose 7.3% in a year. Its leading option tiers subsidies by income and puts more public money into a market built around private providers.
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About one in five UK and Irish law firms that have widely adopted AI report difficulty meeting billable-hour targets, legal software company Clio found. Firms must now decide who keeps the hours AI saves, and who pays to train juniors once software does the document review.
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EY's global delivery centres added more than 10,000 staff in its 2026 financial year, more than the nearly 10,000 the whole firm gained. Outside those centres headcount was flat or slightly lower, so EY's growth is showing up as a change in where it employs people.
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Penang is reclaiming 2,300 acres off its southern coast for chip design, packaging and testing, with first industrial operations expected in early 2029. For APAC teams buying AI servers, the island is a supply option for refresh cycles that start after that date.
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China's July rule taxes wealthy Chinese 20% at each stage of an offshore-trust transaction, in Hong Kong as well as Singapore. So Hong Kong's family office gains look tied to Singapore's stricter vetting and year-plus approval queue.
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Ford outsold Hyundai and Kia by about 17,000 US vehicles in September, enough to hold third place for the quarter after trailing them in July and August. The fuel-economy rollback credited with giving Detroit room on trucks starts only in late November, so Ford won the quarter under the old targets.
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Gary Wingrove became KPMG's global chairman and CEO on October 1, taking charge of more than 276,000 staff in legally separate member firms. His task is to move those firms together on AI, a growth bet that is also automating the junior work that feeds the partner pipeline.
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Anthropic is putting $100 million into a residency meant to train and credential 10,000 enterprise engineers on Claude by the end of 2027. Residents finish by running live Claude projects at their own employers, so the money buys deployments along with the teaching.
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Texas AG nominee Nathan Johnson would investigate Deloitte after a DPS software error left at least 178,000 voter registrations unprocessed. His pledge also covers other state vendors, and it takes effect only if he beats Republican Mayes Middleton in November.
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WorkFusion now offers its financial-crime AI agents through four delivery routes, including a managed service run by partner consultancies. The route a bank picks decides who employs the analysts and who is paid for the outcome.
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NetApp is pitching Novus, a file system built to exceed 100Tbps, on its own figure that data-starved GPUs can run below 30% utilization. Buyers adding GPUs have reason to measure what their clusters already use, though every number in the pitch so far is NetApp's own.
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