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Software stocks keep on sliding as AI's rapidly evolving capabilities rattle investors.

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It's Wednesday, February 4th. I'm Lou Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is

the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Software stocks in Asia and Europe are sliding today following a rough day on Wall Street

that saw the rise of new AI tools shave more than $300 billion off of companies that sell or invest in software.

Yesterday's big losers included Adobe, Salesforce, LegalZoom.com, PayPal, Expedia, and Equifax,

as traders called into question the competitive modes those businesses had built up.

And with more on this software sell-off, I'm joined by reporter Hannah Meow.

Hannah, what triggered this?

I kind of thought AI was a potential benefit for some of these companies, enabling them to kind of power up their professional offerings.

And yet the thinking seems to be they could just get bypassed completely.

Is that right?

Yeah, we've seen Anthropic and Open AI release new models

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