{"id":25089,"date":"2025-09-16T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25089\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:42:08","slug":"duolingo-faces-ai-risks-as-investors-reconsider-its-pricey-multiple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25089\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo Faces AI Risks as Investors Reconsider Its Pricey Multiple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/DUOL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Duolingo Inc.<\/a> is facing risks from multiple angles as investors reassess the impact of artificial intelligence on the mobile foreign language learning platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">AI-powered live translation services are seen as a potential threat to its long-term growth, which explains the stock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T2C15KGQ7L49\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">volatilityBloomberg Terminal<\/a> last week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AAPL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Apple Inc.<\/a> detailed a similar feature to be included with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-09\/apple-debuts-airpods-pro-3-with-heart-rate-monitor-better-fit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">latest AirPods<\/a>. At the same time, Duolingo has faced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-05-08\/duolingo-ai-backlash-is-lesson-for-business-leaders-duol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">backlash<\/a> about its AI-first strategy, with some users criticizing Chief Executive Officer Luis von Ahn for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/duolingo_below-is-an-all-hands-email-from-our-activity-7322560534824865792-l9vh\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACPU4HcBLnWyfBJhGB9bHZ4Cx0yo6fhzAjM\" title=\"post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">considering<\/a> replacing human contractors with AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duolingo Inc. is facing risks from multiple angles as investors reassess the impact of artificial intelligence on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,21199,1646,218,219,15704,21323,21322,222,4699,61,60,123,80,18976,3056],"class_list":["post-25089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-apple-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-duolingo","tag-earnings","tag-etf","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-technology","tag-valuation","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}