‘SaaSpocalypse’ Risk From AI Reaches Beyond Private Equity

Bloomberg's Paula Seligson said that specific subsets of the software industry are especially at risk from the 'SaaSpocalypse' — the selloff of companies based around 'software-as-a-service — as artificial intelligence replaces software functionality for things like data visualization. Seligson said that right now investors are trying to figure out the reality of the risk around the…

bloomberg.com ·2026-08-13

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