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IT bloodbath is double whammy for buyout barons

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Shares in software giants like Salesforce sank amid fears of competition from chatbots, implying pain for private equity’s bet on the industry. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists discuss how asset managers may take a hit whether AI lives up to its promise or not. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt-out of targeted advertising.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3

The AI apocalypse has claimed its first victim. At least that's what investors appear to think.

0:46.3

The share prices of a swath of high-tech software firms have collapsed this month,

0:51.3

as the rapidly increasing sophistication of language models like Anthropics Claude

0:56.0

raised the dark possibility that a single company's helpful digital assistant will be able to replace many other tools.

1:04.0

Demolishing nearly $1 trillion of market value in six days, the list of individual losers includes many former high flyers.

1:12.6

Big company automation provider service now has crashed 30% year to date.

1:17.6

Salesforce, the kingpin of inscrutable enterprise software giants, is down 27%

1:23.6

and Photoshop maker Adobe has slumped 20%.

1:28.3

It's a grim harbiger of future shocks still to come from the companies building large language models.

1:34.3

Alphabet, Amazon.com, meta platforms and Microsoft pledge roughly $700 billion on improving chatbots even further.

1:42.3

As bad as that is for the companies at risk,

1:45.1

it might be even worse for the buyout shops stuffing them with leverage and for the broader

1:49.7

corporate world. What might happen next is the subject of this week's Views Room. It's

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