The dominant Medicare Advantage insurers denied rehabilitative care for older and disabled Americans at higher rates than industry peers. They hired a UnitedHealth subsidiary called NaviHealth to evaluate requests for rehabilitation care. When patients appealed their blocked care, the insurers overturned the company's denials of nursing home care 97% of the time.

There are more than 1,000 AI radiology tools, but the number of radiologists has risen by 17 percent since 2016 and the average salary has increased from about $350,000 to $570,000. According to Luis Garicano, most white-collar jobs combine two different kinds of work: "clean" and "messy".

John Wilkerson writes about the politics of health care and is the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. RFK Jr.’s most recent podcast might be worth a listen. Casey Ross and Bob Herman have a follow-up to their reporting on how large Medicare Advantage insurers used artificial intelligence to override clinicians’ judgment and deny care to seriously ill and disabled patients.

Artificial intelligence company Abridge announced new deals with Eli Lilly and chipmaker Nvidia on Thursday. Abridge wants to gain an edge in the market for software that supports doctors and streamlines hospital billing and operations. Eli Lilly will make a strategic investment in the company and a new collaboration with Nvidia will develop the first foundation model for clinical conversations.

NiCE World 2026 featured agentic AI platform announcements and enterprise customer wins on the main stage. Practitioners on the show floor were asking harder, more grounded questions: How do you govern AI you can't fully control? How do they retain agents who are burned out and undervalued? And how do they convince a private equity board to fund AI? The human stakes are high.

Anthropic announces an initial $200 million investment to research AI’s impact on jobs and the economy. The company's CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei wrote an essay on his personal website that expanded on his position that the government should promise economic support for those financially impacted by AI.

Today's most advanced AI systems remain black boxes. Scientists can observe what they do but cannot fully explain how they arrive at their conclusions. Eric Horvitz, chief scientific officer at Microsoft, and Robert West at EPFL in Switzerland call for new AI benchmarks and better tools for unpicking machine minds.

Claude Fable 5 is the most powerful AI model Anthropic has ever made widely available, but it doesn't answer basic biology questions. It's because it's restricted to the former flagship model, Claude Opus 4.8. Anthropic is working to improve its detection and reduce false positives in the future.