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Feb
The global tech market just experienced its most violent tremor since the 2020 pandemic, and it wasn't triggered by interest rates or earnings. On February 4, 2026, a “tech rout’ saw over $285 billion in market value evaporate in a single session. The culprit is the “Anthropic Effect.” The San Francisco startup recently launched a suite of workplace automation tools—plugins for its Claude Cowork agent—that don't just help humans work; they replace entire workflows in legal, compliance, and data analytics. This is a nightmare scenario for the traditional IT services model. For years, the bull case for AI was that…