{"id":989939,"date":"2026-02-05T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989939"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:27:27","slug":"as-software-stocks-slump-investors-debate-ais-existential-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/as-software-stocks-slump-investors-debate-ais-existential-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"As software stocks slump, investors debate AI&#8217;s existential threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>nvestors were assessing on Wednesday whether a selloff in global software \u2060stocks this week had gone too far, as they weighed if businesses could survive an existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The answer: It&#8217;s unclear and will lead to volatility. After a broad selloff on Tuesday that saw the S&amp;P 500 software and services index fall nearly 4%, the sector slipped another 1% on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nvestors were assessing on Wednesday whether a selloff in global software \u2060stocks this week had gone too far, as they weighed if businesses could survive an existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. The answer: It&#8217;s unclear and will lead to volatility. After a broad selloff on Tuesday that saw the S&amp;P 500 software and services index fall nearly 4%, the sector slipped another 1% on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}