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Anthropic’s Claude triggered a trillion-dollar selloff. A new upgrade could make things worse

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, an advanced AI model capable of conducting sophisticated professional tasks and working in coordinated teams.

By Beatrice NolanFebruary 6, 2026

Moltbook is the talk of Silicon Valley. But the furor is eerily reminiscent of a 2017 Facebook research experiment

As Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn points out, we’ve seen this film before.

By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 6, 2026

When the music stops: the unravelling of AI companies’ flawed valuations

Right now, we’re already slipping into the Trough of Disillusionment and when the AI bubble bursts, the flawed valuations will be exposed.

By Mikael JohnssonFebruary 6, 2026

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Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos have seen more than $66 billion swiped from their net worths since the start of this year as AI-driven slump sees tech billionaires’ wealth free-fall

AI bubble fears have led to billions erased from tech CEOs’ net worth overnight—and Oracle founder Larry Ellison has been hit the hardest this year.

By Emma BurleighFebruary 6, 2026

Software selloff giving you déjà vu? We’ve been here before, says Deutsche Bank, when the dotcom bubble burst

“Interestingly, that pattern echoes what we saw in 2000 as the dotcom bubble started to burst,” Deutsche Bank’s Henry Allen wrote. “Equities started to fall from March 2000 as tech stocks saw significant declines.”

By Eleanor PringleFebruary 6, 2026

OpenAI’s new model leaps ahead in coding capabilities—but raises unprecedented cybersecurity risks

Why OpenAI’s latest coding breakthrough is forcing the company to rethink how—and how fast—it can deploy its most powerful models.

By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 5, 2026

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