According comments apparently delivered anonymously to the Wall Street Journal’s Berber Jin and Corrie Driebusch , OpenAI’s relentless push toward a 2026 initial public offering (IPO) may not be so relentless after all. OpenAI is being advised it seems, to relent until next year. A Journal report earlier this week from Jin said OpenAI—which is private, and doesn’t have to report revenue publicly—had missed its recent revenue targets. In their new profile of OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar, Jin and Driebusch write that Friar has: “[…]taken a closer look at OpenAI’s spending commitments, and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO, cautioning that the company isn’t yet ready to meet the rigorous reporting standards required of public companies.” The Journal compares Friar to other women in Silicon Valley famous for taming brash male founders: Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who famously made Facebook (later Meta) into a profitable business, and SpaceX ’ s adult in the…