
An interesting development from Anthropic has thrown the question ‘is SaaS dead?’ up the in air with the market experiencing a rough patch after they announced Claude Cowork. This autonomous AI tool aims to support both software engineers and other office professionals, handling work from payroll computations to financial market research. Its debut, along with 11 newly launched plugins, reportedly triggered an overnight drop of about $200 billion in market value. Those hit hardest being publishing and legal tech software, according to the Guardian “European publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial intelligence startup Anthropic revealed a tool for use by companies’ legal departments.” So how far will this disruption…