Palantir Technologies shares rose 3.27% to $172.70 on Monday as investors responded to calls from senior AI executives for a slower pace of development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that unchecked AI agents (software systems that perform tasks autonomously) could form a botnet capable of causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage in less than a year. Anthropic plans to give outside evaluators access comparable to that of its staff, while OpenAI said it would pursue similar testing. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also said the company was delaying its previously planned 2026 stock market debut over unresolved safety and model-alignment questions. The prospect of slower AI progress may reduce competitive pressure on enterprise software companies such as Palantir, according to the market interpretation described in the report. Amodei identified China as the toughest dilemma in coordinating any slowdown because of global competition.