Alphabet Drops 5%, Drags Software: 'AI Eating Software' Panic?
Alphabet tumbled 5.08%, leading a broad selloff across software and communication services — Oracle, Fastly, Rapid7, Braze, and Teradata all slid sharply. Markets are increasingly gripped by fears that AI is cannibalizing software: as AI directly generates applications and displaces SaaS tools, traditional software moats are being repriced — following Accenture's worst single-day performance in years last week. Is Google's selloff an overreaction and a buying opportunity, or the start of a broader software valuation reset?