{"id":1040608,"date":"2026-10-03T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040608"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:56:45","slug":"accenture-expects-higher-ai-spending-by-clients-as-token-costs-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/accenture-expects-higher-ai-spending-by-clients-as-token-costs-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture expects higher AI spending by clients as token costs fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture Plc. expects companies to spend more on automation tools as the costs of deploying them reduce, even as it passes more productivity benefits to clients.<\/p>\n<p>While overall tech budgets have remained largely unchanged from last year, newer and cheaper AI models offer clients an incentive to spend more on AI, Julie Sweet, chief executive of the world&#8217;s largest IT services company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture Plc. expects companies to spend more on automation tools as the costs of deploying them reduce, even as it passes more productivity benefits to clients. While overall tech budgets have remained largely unchanged from last year, newer and cheaper AI models offer clients an incentive to spend more on AI, Julie Sweet, chief executive of the world&#8217;s largest IT services company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040609,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040608\/revisions\/1040609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}