Microsoft Stock Falls On Anthropic Challenge To Office Software

Concerns about artificial intelligence eating the traditional software-as-a-service business returned on Tuesday after AI bigwig Anthropic announced a set of tools that could rival Microsoft’s (MSFT) Office suite. Microsoft stock fell on the news. Anthropic introduced Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data. The Whiteboards offering is a shared board where teams can brainstorm online with Claude AI. Sheets is…