AI agents surge ahead despite existential risk warnings
The AI industry is advancing rapidly on AI agents despite growing fears about existential risks, with major companies like Salesforce and Splunk rebuilding platforms around the technology while leaders back calls for a slowdown in model releases. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk supported Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's request to slow frontier AI development, while Anthropic released metrics to monitor AI advancement speed. Cybersecurity firms launched new "kill switches" to control rogue agents, and Congress remains unlikely to pass AI legislation. Salesforce doubled down on agents at Dreamforce, positioning Slack as an interface to its backend, while the AI Infra Summit showcased infrastructure growth. The Senate rejected crypto regulation, but the SEC granted tokenized stock trading a five-year exemption.