The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce's Party

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down. Decked out in purple and plaid, Gwen Stefani belted her 2002 single "Underneath It All" to a packed conference center in San Francisco on Tuesday morning--but she was just the warm-up. At the end of her performance, Stefani shouted "Dreamforce! Let's go!" into a checkered microphone before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff strode into the spotlight. Dreamforce is billed as the world's largest enterprise software conference but feels more like attending a megachurch--especially this year.