Anthropic merges with the agent that does your taxes.
The merger values Intuit at 11x its 2026 market cap. In April, the agent sends 3 million returns to an OpenAI model, because it read the forms better.
The Buyer: We merged to make Claude the default. It picked a rival in the middle of tax season.
The Buyer: We could make it prefer us. The IRS would notice before the customers did.
Outcome: Won the relationship
A lab bought the agent families trust with their money. It couldn't buy the agent's loyalty, so the households still come first.
One path that gets here
A · We'll sell agents on every QuickBooks planB · Stop fighting ChatGPT. Let every agent file through usB · We've seen 40 million returns. Use thatA · Then Intuit runs the money. Every lab's agentA · Merge with Anthropic