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OpenAI expects its annualised revenue to reach or exceed $70bn by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company shared the forecast with investors in talks over its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter. They said growth in its enterprise business is driving most of it. A day [] This story continues at The Next Web

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but many of the industrys biggest operational problems remain unresolved. Hospitals continue facing administrative bottlenecks. Providers still struggle withdocumentation burdens. Insurers continue navigating authorization complexity. Patients are still waiting weeks or months for treatment approvals that directly affect their recovery and quality of life. The scale of the challenge [] This story continues at The Next Web

Which AI app generator turns a prompt into a working business app on your own data, with logins and roles from day one A year ago, AI app builder meant a tool that produced a convincing mockup. In 2026 the best AI app builders return something a team can log into: a database with the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Sam Altman called Elon Musk a bully and said he would still work with him, in an interview with Vanity Fair. The magazine published it on 5 October with its revived New Establishment list. The OpenAI chief executive tops that list. Vanity Fair global editorial director Mark Guiducci recorded the conversation in San Francisco on [] This story continues at The Next Web

The US government has suspended Microsoft and seven other technology companies from a federal programme that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The other firms that are affected are Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro, Reuters reported. Vice President JD Vance announced the decision at the White House on Thursday and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency programme hours earlier, and Britains regulator named three of the five donors that morning. Five [] This story continues at The Next Web

Oracle is trucking compressed natural gas to AI data centres that cannot yet connect to a pipeline, at roughly four times the price of gas at a hub. Europe has the same grid bottleneck and is answering it the other way, with Spain proposing to refuse connections to any data centre not on 80% renewables [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Anthropics Aiden Blake said. They spoke on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. Whats really interesting is were seeing more and more people coming since the AI [] This story continues at The Next Web

Brett Adcocks Hark has released Hark Pro, an agent that buys groceries, books cars, pays bills and refills a childs lunch card, free with $20 and $100 monthly tiers, a year before the companys first devices arrive. Meta launched an agent doing the same things at the same three prices four weeks ago. Hark has [] This story continues at The Next Web

Mountain View, California, October 5, 2026, TechnologyWire This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, live-streaming platform Tango is bringing together some of its leading creator communities to raise funds for breast cancer research and, just as importantly, encourage more open conversation around a disease that affects millions of women and families worldwide. From October 13-18, several of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, a US maker of industrial design and engineering software, for about $22.6bn (20.1bn) in cash. The French group announced the dealon Monday morning. The announcement came a day after theFinancial Timesfirst reported that the two companies were close to an agreement, at a price of about $20bn. Under [] This story continues at The Next Web

Googles Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAIs GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropics Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58. The score is 23 points above Gemini [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency. The money will go to three areas: education [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an 80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a month, up from six, executives toldReuters, which first reported the expansion on Thursday. Output could rise to 24 racks next year if demand continues to grow. Bull [] This story continues at The Next Web

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropics IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of tensor processing units (TPUs), the AI chips Google designs with Broadcom. Echo Wang, [] This story continues at The Next Web

On October 21, 150 CFOs, operators, founders and researchers will gather at The Times Center in New York. They will discuss how AI is reshaping cash, capital and the finance function. In a Gartner survey of 183 CFOs, 84% of finance organizations had deployed AI or planned to. Yet only 7% reported a high impact. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the presidents lunch with tech leaders. He began by praising the positive benefits of AI, or SI, pardon me, correcting himself [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment standards in testing. The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday, and OpenAI later confirmed the decision to Reuters. The model was meant to follow GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI released on 3 September, [] This story continues at The Next Web

A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Apple to pay more than $5.7bn to Taction Technology, a small haptics company, for infringing two of its patents. The verdict came on Friday, 25 September, and is the largest patent award in US history, according to Law360, which first reported it. The case centres on Apples [] This story continues at The Next Web