THE DAILY BRIEF

Anthropic founder Dario Amodei is set to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to resolve an ongoing conflict with the Pentagon, marking a potential breakthrough in government relations.

► This escalation to the White House level signals that AI policy and defense applications are now critical to executive-branch decision-making.

Cerebras, an AI chipmaker, filed to go public on Nasdaq after reporting $510M in 2025 revenue (up 76% YoY) and achieving $87.9M net income, a dramatic turnaround from a $485M net loss in 2024.

► An AI hardware company achieving profitability and going public validates that inference-optimized chips are moving beyond hype into sustainable business.

Physical Intelligence says its new robot brain model π0.7 can direct robots on tasks they were never trained on, demonstrating early signs of generalization in robotics AI.

► If robotics models can generalize to unseen tasks, it compresses the timeline for deploying robots in unstructured real-world environments.

CISA flagged a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability as actively exploited in attacks after it went undetected in the wild for 13 years before being patched.

► A 13-year undetected flaw now under active attack means thousands of enterprises need to patch immediately or face compromise.