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Xero and Anthropic Collaborate to Bring AI-Powered Financial Intelligence to Millions of Small Businesses
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 26, 2026--Xero (ASX: XRO), the global small business platform, and Anthropic, the company behind Claude, today announced a multi-year partnership that will bring Claude's AI directly into Xero — and Xero's financial data and tools into Claude.ai. This will give small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors real-time financial intelligence and the ability to act on it — wherever they choose to work.
About this update from Xero Limited
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