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Accenture caps employee Claude spending at $29 a month

Accenture now covers only $29 per employee per month for Claude, the AI model built by Anthropic. Some of its consultants had been running up bills of as much as $1,000 a month, 404 Media reported on October 15. The…

Accenture, Anthropic commit $1B each to AI safety testing

Accenture and Anthropic announced on Friday a partnership to build a team of embedded evaluators who will work inside Anthropic to assess the safety of its frontier AI models, with each company committing to invest at least $1 billion over…

BAT to cut 5,500 jobs in AI-driven restructuring

British American Tobacco announced on Monday that it will eliminate 5,500 jobs and transfer an additional 3,500 roles to third-party firms including Accenture, affecting roughly 9,000 employees — about 20% of its non-U.S. workforce — as it accelerates an AI-powered…

Accenture strikes $4.2B deal for Dragos, runZero, NetRise

Accenture announced on Thursday that it has entered into agreements to acquire a majority stake in Dragos and full ownership of runZero and NetRise in a combined deal valued at approximately $4.175 billion, according to a press release issued alongside…