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The corporate front desk and the internal help desk are becoming faster, smarter and always on. New data from RingCentral and ServiceNow shows AI systems handling inbound calls and resolving IT tickets at scale. AI’s New Front Desk One significant example of artificial intelligence moving into t
The IGV software ETF just entered a bear market. ServiceNow is down 50% from its highs. Salesforce and Workday have been crushed. And somehow, the little developer cloud that everyone wrote off is one of the only winners left standing. Let’s set the scene. It is February 2026. The “SaaSp
This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Back in 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published the now well-worn words: “software is eating the world." Now, a debate is raging around how much software AI will eat. Many of the world
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared the age of agentic AI has arrived, outlining a future where autonomous AI agents become digital employees across every industry, powered by Nvidia's
ServiceNow Inc. today debuted two new cloud services that use artificial intelligence to automate manual work for users. The first offering, Autonomous Workforce, is a suite of specialized AI tools that each focus on speeding up a different set of chores. On launch, the bundle features a single a
When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.…
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed fears that artificial intelligence would cannibalize the enterprise software sector.
Nvidia generated a staggering $120 billion in profits last year. But not even the world's most valuable company is immune to the "AI scare trade."
ServiceNow patched a critical AI Platform flaw that could enable unauthenticated remote code execution. The post ServiceNow AI Platform Vulnerability Enables Unauthenticated
Shares of software supply chain platform JFrog (NASDAQ:FROG) jumped 6% in the morning session after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed fears that artificial intelligence would cannibalize the enterprise software sector.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warns of a 'SaaSQuatch Apocalypse,' declaring traditional subscription software obsolete as autonomous AI agents rise. His Agentforce platform bets the c
Salesforce is looking to buy the dip with a $50 billion share-repurchase program as the software selloff continues to send its stock falling, but Wall Street is wondering if the money would be better spent investing in more artificial-intelligence capabilities.
“We’re well on our way” to $63 billion in annual revenue in fiscal year 2030, Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said Wednesday in a statement. Wall Street was expecting $60.3 billion. The company also announced a new $50 billion stock buyback program and increased its quarterly dividend to 44 c
When AI threatens to eat your company, only the founder can rewrite the menu. There’s a moment in the life of every successful B2B company where the founder steps back and says: “I built this thing. It works. Let the professional operators take it from here.” We all think about it
Big-data streaming company Confluent Inc. is beefing up its Confluent Intelligence platform to help artificial intelligence agents dig up more accurate data-based insights. Its new additions include Streaming Agents, which use the Agent2Agent protocol to connect with specialized external AI agent
ServiceNow is handling 90% of its own employee IT requests autonomously, resolving cases 99% faster than human agents. On Thursday it announced the product technology it wants to use to do the same for everyone else.Organizations have spent three years running pilots that stall when AI get
ServiceNow integrates Moveworks, launches Autonomous Workforce, EmployeeWorks <a class="username" href="https://www.constellationr.
Nvidia 's Jensen Huang was right when he told CNBC investors "got it wrong" over AI fears that drove them to sell off software stocks, market watchers have said. Software stocks have been caught up in a sell-off that dragged the sector into bear market territory, amid fears AI could make software as
How leaders can build a future in which AI technology and talent are unstoppable together For decades, digital transformation raised hopes of simpler work. And while many companies found complexity instead of clarity, the story isn’t over. <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/section/art
ServiceNow has disclosed a critical security vulnerability in its AI Platform that could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code within the ServiceNow Sandbox environment. Tracked as CVE-2026-0542, the flaw was formally published on February 25, 2026, under security advisory KB26
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"Software is already eating AI" and will continue to do so, according to HSBC, with the bank shrugging off recent market fears about the sector being displaced by artificial intelligence. Software stocks plunged earlier this month as widespread concerns that AI could make software-as-a-service, or S
Salesforce beat every Q4 estimate but stock fell 5%. Agentforce ARR hit $800M, just 1.9% of revenue. SaaS-Angst is winning.
Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
Salesforce CEO dismisses 'SaaSpocalypse' narrative after solid earnings beat
Salesforce Inc. clocked up its highest-ever quarterly revenue as it delivered its latest financial results, beating expectations, but its revenue guidance for the new fiscal year trailed Wall Street’s projections. The customer relationship management software giant crushed Wall Street’s expectati
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday markets have miscalculated the AI threat to software companies in an interview hours after the chip behemoth issued an upbeat sales forecast on strong AI demand. "I think the markets got it wrong," Huang said. "Nobody's going to service better than ServiceNow,
Google's Gemini Enterprise app is tailor-made for workspaces with support for tapping into corporate data.
After a torrid, years-long affair with AI stocks, investors are suddenly ghosting Big Tech and rebounding with… deodorant and cheeseburgers. The market’s latest fling has been dubbed the “HALO” trade (heavy assets, low obsolescence). Traders are looking for shelter from industries getting smoked by
Why has the sell-off in software stocks — driven by artificial intelligence disruption fears — been so dramatic and seemingly unending? In this Club Check-in, CNBC's Paulina Likos and Zev Fima answer that question by diving into an important concept that investors use to evaluate stocks called termi
For years, the "last mile" of digital transformation has been littered with forgotten PDFs and ignored training manuals. Organizations spend millions on sophisticated software like SAP or Salesforce, only for employees to struggle with basic navigation. Now, as the era of agentic
SolveAI, a London-based AI startup founded by former Palantir engineer Steve Basher, is stepping out of stealth with $50 million in fresh funding and an ambitious pitch: give everyday enterprise employees the ability to build production-ready software simply by talking […] The post <
Enterprise generative AI faces a reckoning as companies discover that powerful models alone cannot deliver reliable business results. A new infrastructure layer—spanning retrieval s
SecurityWeek’s M&A data indicates that today's market is more disciplined, and it seems to favor GRC, data protection, and identity. The post SecurityWeek Report: 426 Cybersecurity
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Anthropic announced new features for its Claude AI assistant this week that let it work inside popular business programs and handle specialized tasks across different industries, the latest expansion that has kept investors on edge about the future of workplace software. The San Francisco company re
OpenAI’s new Frontier Alliances with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey aim to speed enterprise agent deployments and AI strategy work. The post OpenAI Partners With McKinsey, BCG, and Accentur
A Fictional Memo Just Moved Real Markets. Here’s Why It Matters.
Anthropic is launching a slew of new enterprise capabilities for its AI bot Claude, putting increased pressure on software companies.
New tech, same enterprise playbook: OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances partner program <a class="username" href="https://www.conste
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A trillion dollars of market value has vanished on the assumption that AI agents will make enterprise software obsolete. That assumption misunderstands the problem. A new word has entered the business headline writer’s lexicon over the last month: the “<a href="https://www.forbes.com/site
OpenAI has partnered with top global consultancies—BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini—to accelerate adoption of its Frontier AI agent platform, reshaping enterprise workflows and pressuring traditional SaaS providers
OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s partnering with four of the world’s biggest technology consulting firms in an effort to help more enterprises adopt artificial intelligence agents. The ChatGPT maker has created an initiative it’s calling “Frontier Alliances” in collaboration with Accenture Plc.,
Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2013 IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.…
AI is coming for everything, Wall Street seems to believe.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives projects a $2 trillion AI software spending wave is forming, arguing that the next class of technology winners will be software companies that monetize ente
Anthropic says three Chinese AI firms built more than 24,000 fake accounts to pull data from its Claude system. The company says the goal was to boost their own models fast. The firms named were DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. Anthropic said those accounts sent over 16 million prompts into Claud
OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.
The new alliances heap further pressure on SaaS vendors such as Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, and ServiceNow.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and ServiceNow signed a multi-year partnership to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across various business functions. According to a Tata Consultancy Services exchange filing, the collaboration focuses on reimagining work transformation thro
UiPath has appointed Arjun Laxminarasu as Head of Market
There’s a serious privacy risk quietly hiding inside “helpful” AI agents. As enterprise platforms rush to add conversational bots into workflows, they’re also inadvertently giving those agents broad access to sensitive information – and, in some cases, letting bots chat freely in a way no privacy
Customers will not rip-and-replace legacy software platforms overnight but look for best outcomes at the best price. ServiceNow’s own numbers reflect that AI had an expansionary impact on its topline. In FY25, its AI revenue crossed $600 million and is expected to exceed $1 billion this fiscal. The
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The US-based firm has partnered with top IT sector companies, such as TCS, Cognizant, LTIMindtree and Tech Mahindra, among others, and will look to have more such collaborations in the near future, according to a top company official.
For most of the past decade-plus, B2B software had a beautiful, almost boring stability to it. You’d build a product. You’d get it to $1M ARR. Then $10M. Then $100M. And the product you were selling at $100M ARR looked … pretty much the same as what you were selling at $1M. Better, sure.
Tanmai Gopal of PromptQL said tech people have a bad habit of thinking "this affects me. So it's going to affect everyone like that."
From MIT’s Iceberg Index to Deutsche Bank’s" redundancy washing" warning, the evidence tells a messier story.
A handful hog the headlines, but many function-specific agents are available to developers and users. MIT's latest study explores the broader agentic ecosystem.
Code Metal, a San Jose startup, raised $100 million in Series B funding to build enterprise infrastructure for vibe coding — the practice of creating software through AI conversatio
MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.…
And this research was conducted before OpenClaw unleashed a monster.
TCS and Infosys’s partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic could prove a win-win for India’s under-pressure technology sector and the fast-growing AI firms.
CX platforms process billions of unstructured interactions a year: Survey forms, review sites, social feeds, call center transcripts, all flowing into AI engines that trigger automated workflows touching payroll, CRM, and payment systems. No tool in a security operation center leader’s stack insp
There could be a consolidation within the industry when some software firms fail to transform their businesses for AI adoption, ServiceNow COO Amit Zavery tells Bloomberg Television.
ServiceNow President & COO Amit Zavery discusses key impacts of artificial intelligence for business growth. He speaks with Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of India AI Impact Summit. (Source: Bloomberg)
There have been a few instances of insider purchases in the wake of the recent software selloff, with the latest coming from Microsoft director John Stanton.
Enterprises will never simply go and adopt a barebones model for the work they do—they want trust, compliance, a team to fall back on, security, and compatibility with many distributed services in an organization, says ServiceNow COO Amit Zavery.
Design platform integrates Claude to convert AI-generated code into editable mockups
Three U.S.-based AI companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion so far in 2026 with 14 others raising rounds of $100 million or more.
Figma Inc. signage during the company's initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called " Code to Canvas " that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools like Claude Code into fully editable de
Why one of tech’s top fund managers just abandoned software stocks
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy argues AI will reduce most enterprise software to 'dumb data pipes,' positioning data platforms as the true value center. His bold thesis challenges
Wall Street strategists are shifting AI investment strategies heading into 2026, looking beyond semiconductor plays to software platforms, enterprise applications, and physical infr
Founded in 2021, MEA deploys AI for insurance underwriting, claims, and finance-related needs. Read more: Scottish Equity Partners invests $50m in UK AI insurtech M
The AI industry's projected $10 trillion infrastructure investment faces a fundamental tension: despite promises of revolutionary applications in healthcare and science, advertising
Investors worry AI could weaken software margins, while Amazon Web Services reports solid expansion and questions the scale of market panic.
OpenAI has hired OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to lead autonomous
It’s bigger than GEO. Bigger than SEO. This is about being the #1 answer when 700 million people ask AI what to buy. Replit says use @HubSpot. (Right or wrong) These are the battles you just have to win in 2026+ AI Agents Have Favorites. You Need To Be One Of Them. pic.twitter.com/YwmLhKkluJ &
When work went remote, the sound of business changed. What began as a scramble to make home offices functional has evolved into a revolution in how people hear and are heard. From education to enterprises, companies across industries have reimagined what clear, reliable communication can mean in a h
Endpoint protection and response platforms cover everything from AI-powered ransomware detection to insider risk monitoring.
All hail Anthropic, the destroyer of everything. What an amazing service. It can wipe out Adobe by allowing you to design something better that has a much simpler commerce system, designed personally for you. That one is child's play. ServiceNow may call itself the "AI Control Tower" to signify who
Observers commonly say that artificial intelligence is still in the “early innings.” The reality is AI is much further along than many acknowledge. In 2012, AlexNet was a watershed deep learning moment when massive and freely available internet datasets met Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processin
With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll, and special guest Mike Cannon-Brookes (CEO and co-founder Atlassian) We’re back on 20VC, with Harry, Rory from Scale, SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin, and a very special guest — Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEOand co-founder of Atlassian. On Anthr
ServiceNow is aggressively positioning itself as the central AI orchestration platform for enterprises, leveraging new partnerships like Kearney's BPR.ai, agentic AI capabilities, a
In recent weeks, a range of large "software-as-a-service" companies, including Salesforce, ServiceNow and Oracle, have seen their share prices tumble.
There used to be a lot of companies in the 10x ARR Club. In Q4 2020, 60% of public B2B companies traded at 10x revenue or higher. Thirty-five traded above 20x. Asana hit 89x. Today it’s at 3x ARR.The median SaaS multiple was north of 18x. That world is not just gone. It’s been obliterate
On Friday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Wall Street is misreading the impact of artificial intelligence on enterprise soft
Amazon just printed its longest losing streak in basically 20 years. The stock has fallen for nine straight trading days. Friday added another 0.4 percent drop. That matches a nine day slide that ended in July 2006. Over this stretch, Amazon has lost 18 percent. About $463 billion in market value ha
Over the past few weeks, investors’ anxiety about AI disruption hit the software sector like a tidal wave—but now, the tsunami is overtaking the rest of the market. For years, investors have been wooed by AI’s potential to boost productivity, sending the “picks and shovels” stocks of the AI boom to
The billionaire venture capitalist explained why software would eat the world in 2011. He had no idea.
The billionaire venture capitalist explained why software would eat the world in 2011. He had no idea.
Wall Street analysts warn that AI-driven disruption will hammer software, commercial real estate, and trucking sectors through 2026, as generative AI tools erode the value propositi
Geotab unveiled sweeping AI-powered upgrades to its fleet telematics platform at Geotab Connect 2026 in Las Vegas, with CEO Neil Cawse outlining how predictive maintenance, generati
Despite the seven straight quarters of revenue growth and sales and earnings results that topped analysts’ estimates in the most recent quarter, Extreme Networks Inc.’s stock is down by a third since its Sept. 11 high. Chief Executive Ed Meyercord (pictured) said supply chain uncertainty tied to
On this Friday the 13th, I didn’t have to try hard to come up with a scary SaaS story for you.
Workday's compensation plan for its new CEO underscores how much of an uphill fight SaaS companies have in the face of AI.