Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be big in 2017.

H&R Block is out to wrest back market share from its online tax-prep rivals with such aggressive measures as free services and interest-free advances on refunds—oh, and plunking a supercomputing Jeopardy star down on the desks of its 70,000 tax preparers.

The provider of tech solutions to legal firms adds the accounting vertical to its capabilities.

The technology is built on proprietary artificial intelligence.

As the cloud hype dissipates, more practical realities are taking hold.

MyFirmsApp, a U.K.-based technology development company, has gotten the go-ahead to use the technology powering Amazon’s Alexa voice-based assistant to develop artificial intelligence apps for accounting.

Firm highlights its latest advances in audit, tax, analytics and consulting at its New York offices.

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