Today this happened on the Dutch main AEX Stock Exchange:
Legal Software Stocks Plunge as Anthropic Releases New AI Tool
Shares of European legal software and publishing firms dropped after US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic unveiled a tool for companies’ in-house lawyers.
RELX Plc and Wolters Kluwer NV both fell more than 10% after Anthropic released the tool on its GitHub page. Pearson Plc also slipped.
Anthropic said its tool can automate legal work like contract reviewing, non-disclosure agreement triage, briefings and templated responses.
Still, it cautioned that the plugin doesn’t provide legal advice. “AI-generated analysis should be reviewed by licensed attorneys before being relied upon for legal decisions,” the firm said.
(Wolters Kluwer and RELX are companies with a market cap of between 18 and 55 billion euros)
Scary how fast such software AI developments are influencing such large companies and their business models!