Anthropic · Claude · Fortune Technology
Corfield broke the concept of enterprise trust into three distinct layers
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The first is whether Anthropic means what it says about safety, not as a marketing posture but as a governing principle that holds even under competitive pressure.
Key facts
- Rema Serafi, the Vice Chair of Tax at KPMG US, was in Miami when the deal went public, announced live from the stage at the firm’s annual Tax Summit, in front of 900 attendees, half of them clients
- Serafi referred to joint research by KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin, published in the March issue of Harvard Business Review, which analyzed over 1.4 million interactions between KPMG — He was at Sun Microsystems in 1999, when the company’s famous slogan, “the network is the computer”, was widely dismissed
- Every employee, in every one of the 138 countries where KPMG operates, will now have access to Claude
Summary
The fear stalking the consulting industry right now comes in two flavors. Into the midst of this anxiety strode big blue with big news: KPMG dropped a bombshell on Monday, announcing a global alliance with Anthropic to embed Claude, the AI company’s flagship model, directly into Digital Gateway, the client delivery platform where KPMG’s 276,000-person global workforce does its actual work, auditing, advising, structuring deals, preparing taxes for some of the world’s largest companies. Every employee, in every one of the 138 countries where KPMG operates, will now have access to Claude. Fortune spoke with three of the executives who built the deal to unpack why KPMG is embracing the disruption, even as outside critics are puzzled that AI is getting into the consulting business.