Competitive pressure destroys voluntary restraint. The company that waits is the company that loses.

And while the safety debate collapses, AI is quietly becoming enterprise infrastructure. Claude isn’t a chatbot anymore, it’s scheduling your workflows at 6 AM without you at the keyboard. Uber employees built an AI clone of their CEO for pitch practice. Burger King deployed AI in employee headsets to monitor whether workers say “please” and “thank you.” And a startup called Pulsia AI is now autonomously running over 1,000 companies simultaneously.

The race didn’t just accelerate this week. It went terminal: meaning we’ve passed the point where anyone can slow it down, even if they wanted to. Let me walk you through what happened, why it matters, and what comes next.