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AI-Generated Medical Coding Adds Nearly $1 Billion to Blue Cross Costs

AI-Generated Medical Coding Adds Nearly $1 Billion to Blue Cross Costs
AI-Generated Medical Coding Adds Nearly $1 Billion to Blue Cross Costs
September 24, 2026  |  Healthcare

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools used by healthcare providers to identify patients’ secondary medical conditions contributed nearly $1 billion in additional costs for Blue Cross Blue...

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Bank of America Expands Apprenticeship Programs With 1,000 Additional Hires
Bank of America Expands Apprenticeship Programs With 1,000 Additional Hires
September 24, 2026  |  Banking

Bank of America plans to hire 1,000 additional apprentices over the next two years, together with the more than 800 it already hires each year,...

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Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
September 24, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants...

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Ebanx Expands Pakistan Footprint and Deepens Emerging-Market Payments Push
Ebanx Expands Pakistan Footprint and Deepens Emerging-Market Payments Push
September 24, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Ebanx is preparing to expand its payments operations into Pakistan while rolling out an in-house Apple Pay token-decryption system across Latin America and the Caribbean,...

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ECB Explores Linking Europe’s Instant Payment Rail With Brazil’s Pix
ECB Explores Linking Europe’s Instant Payment Rail With Brazil’s Pix
September 24, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

The European Central Bank (ECB) will assess the feasibility of interlinking the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform with Brazil’s Pix instant payment system,...

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Meta Bets a Tamagotchi-Style Device Can Sell Personal AI
Meta Bets a Tamagotchi-Style Device Can Sell Personal AI
September 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Meta wants its artificial intelligence agent, Muse, with people all day. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Meta Readies Pocket-Sized AI Device for December Launch
Meta Readies Pocket-Sized AI Device for December Launch
September 24, 2026  |  Facebook / Meta

Meta is preparing to launch a small, handheld device that fits on a keychain and lets users talk to the company’s personal artificial intelligence agent,...

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HHS Wants a Paper Trail for AI in Federally Funded Research
HHS Wants a Paper Trail for AI in Federally Funded Research
September 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A researcher uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to process data, draft a grant application or assemble a literature review. If the work is later challenged,...

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