NSA spends billions on AI, hospitals use AI for $1B billing surge
nsa to spend billions on ai models, mostly on computing power, while hospitals and insurers use ai to drive up healthcare costs by nearly $1 billion.
the national security agency plans to spend billions of dollars this year on advanced ai models, primarily on computing power, with estimated annual costs potentially reaching tens of billions of dollars. in the us healthcare sector, ai is being used by hospitals and insurers to drive up costs, with hospitals using ai-assisted coding to add nearly $1 billion in extra costs over two years. this is achieved by coding cases as more severe and adding secondary diagnoses, resulting in an average increase of $12,000 per case. the use of ai in billing disputes is expected to continue, with both hospitals and insurers using ai to their advantage.