AI Agent Developments — February 26, 2025 The AI agent landscape saw major enterprise and blockchain advancements today. Salesforce declared "agentic AI at the helm" during its Sydney-based Agentforce World Tour attended by over 10,000 participants. The company emphasized autonomous agents replacing co-pilot frameworks for customer service and analytics workflows, calling them "the future of enterprise AI." At ETHDenver 2025, Hedera launched its Agent Kit SDK, offering $25K in developer bounties to simplify blockchain interactions via natural-language AI agents. Meanwhile, Olas showcased Pearl—its multi-agent transaction platform—which has already processed over 4 million agent-to-agent operations. OpenAI expanded access to its Operator agent, now available in eight additional countries for Pro users. The web-automation tool leverages GPT-4o vision capabilities to handle tasks like form submissions and travel bookings. Upcoming events signal growing industry momentum: Vantiq announced a Global Agentic AI Summit touring six cities before a Washington D.C. finale, while Microsoft’s AI Agent & Copilot Summit NA 2025 will feature Ray Smith (Microsoft VP of AI Agents) discussing Azure’s enterprise integration strategies. In research breakthroughs, Stanford’s James Zou revealed AI "Virtual Lab" agents that autonomously designed COVID-targeting nanobodies validated in lab trials, highlighting agents’ expanding role in scientific discovery.