OpenAI dominated the tech agenda, with multiple reports saying ChatGPT’s maker is quietly preparing a confidential IPO filing that could open the door to a fall market debut, potentially as soon as September. At the same time, the company is signaling global ambition beyond Wall Street, committing about $234 million to a new applied-AI lab in Singapore in partnership with the government, its first such site outside the U.S. Elsewhere, the politics of tech regulation kept moving: Brazil’s President Lula signed decrees that would make social platforms more legally exposed to harmful or illegal user content, part of a broader push to force accountability from big tech. And in a lighter but telling industry moment, Apple services chief Eddy Cue is set to be honored at Cannes Lions, underscoring how deeply Silicon Valley now shapes entertainment as well as software.