OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar signals a 2027 IPO, putting a real number on the most talked-about private company in tech and forcing it to open its books on revenue and compute costs. A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon unconstitutionally blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to remove autonomous weapons restrictions, marking the first court protection for a vendor's safety constraints. One hundred twenty-eight companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, jointly warned about AI-enabled cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, while cyber insurance companies are already rewriting policies as liability chains blur. Anthropic introduced a Model Hardware Standard that lets AI agents directly operate real-world equipment like microscopes and robotic arms, marking AI's watershed moment from software to physical control. Sony Music Publis ...