Jay-Z is playing the Super Bowl. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation made it official during the Cowboys-Eagles game, confirming that the rapper will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show on Feb. 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The reveal capped roughly a week of speculation and reporting first sourced to Puck.

Of course, Roc Nation has produced the halftime show since 2019, starting with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Which means Jay effectively booked himself. He’d long waved off the idea—if the partnership was about him performing, “we can just end this conversation now,” he once said.

Roger Goodell had other plans. The commissioner said that when the league signed Roc Nation, he made exactly one request: that Jay-Z eventually take the stage himself, NBC News reports. Six years later, he got it. Roc Nation executive produces; Hamish Hamilton directs.

But the timing tracks. Jay-Z just closed his “Jay-Z 30” anniversary tour with two nights at SoFi, the same building he'll return to in February. His last solo album, 4:44, landed in 2017. The bar is high: Bad Bunny’s 2026 show averaged 128.2 million viewers and won seven Emmys. The game airs on ESPN, ABC, Disney+ and NFL+.

Everything else is still open. No one has disclosed deal terms or whether Jay-Z is paid at all. Guest stars are unconfirmed—Deadline floated names, but the league has announced none. Sixteen months of speculation starts now, and he owns the production company fielding the calls.

James Comey has been charged by the Justice Department for a third time. Court documents unsealed Monday at the former FBI director’s own request accuse him of two counts of transmitting national defense information to someone not entitled to receive it, plus conspiring to do so. The alleged leak: an Oct. 5, 2016 New York Times story about a secret FISA court order requiring Yahoo to scan user emails.

Here’s the part legal people can’t get past. Prosecutors didn’t go to a grand jury. They filed a “criminal information”—a charging document that requires no grand jury vote and no judge finding probable cause. The Justice Department’s position, per CNBC, is that the filing tolls a 10-year statute of limitations that runs out this month.

Comey’s lawyers say that’s not how any of this works and have moved to dismiss. Former federal prosecutors told CBS News they’d never seen an information deployed this way. Worth noting: special counsel John Durham reviewed the same conduct and recommended no charges in 2018, and a second probe closed in 2020 without action.

Anthropic filed its S-1 on Monday, setting up what could be the largest initial public offering in history. The Claude maker plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT in mid-November, with the stated ambition of blowing past the record $86 billion SpaceX raised. Investors are openly talking about a market cap in the trillions.

It’s not hard to understand why. Second-quarter revenue hit $11.56 billion, up from $787 million a year earlier. After five straight quarters of losses, the company posted $974 million in quarterly operating income. That's the fastest revenue ramp anyone in tech has seen. Then again, Anthropic booked more than $80 billion in losses in the first half. The S-1 also leaves dozens of key financial figures blank (including third-quarter revenue) and discloses roughly $808 billion in minimum future compute and infrastructure obligations, according to WIRED.

But roughly half of Anthropic’s revenue flows through the cloud divisions of Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet—all three of which are also investors. Clearing $1 trillion at debut would make Anthropic only the third company to go public at that level, after Saudi Aramco and SpaceX. Investors told CNBC an underwhelming open would force a broad reset across AI valuations and could push OpenAI to delay its own offering.