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21-Sep-26 08:34 ET
Accenture higher on Anthropic partnership
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Shares of Accenture (ACN 189.50, +8.21, +4.5%) are moving higher in the premarket after the company announced an expanded AI safety partnership with Anthropic.
The companies will establish a team of embedded evaluators to work alongside Anthropic's internal teams and safety partners on model testing and red-teaming, including alignment assessments and evaluations of model safeguards. Accenture will draw on expertise from Faculty, its applied AI acquisition, as part of the effort.
The partnership also includes a sizable financial commitment, with Accenture and Anthropic each expecting to invest at least $1 billion over the next five years in building AI safely.
