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Barbara Booth

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for CNBC
Top 5K sites
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Sep 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Barbara Booth

    AI is operating inside the healthcare billing system. Patients may already be paying the price (opens the original)

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    AI is moving deeper into an already expensive and administratively complex U.S. healthcare system, not just to help doctors diagnose and treat patients but to determine what hospitals bill, what insurance pays, and which claims get denied. And for all the talk of AI as a productivity tool that will lead to efficiencies and serve as a deflationary force, some of the early evidence is raising questions about whether these tools will make an already costly system more expensive. Blue Cross Blue S

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Barbara Booth

    Meta's Muse agent is attacking one of the economy's most profitable weak spots (opens the original)

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    For years, subscription businesses have benefited from a simple fact of consumer behavior: people are much better at signing up than canceling. They forget what they joined. They stop using services but keep paying. A $9 or $15 monthly charge can disappear into a credit card statement for months or even years. With the rollout of Meta Muse this month, an AI personal agent that can handle tasks across many areas of personal life, it quickly became clear that subscription bloat was an easy targe

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Barbara Booth

    Construction robots are tackling America's housing shortage, but we're a long way from humanoid homebuilders (opens the original)

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    America's housing industry is under pressure to build more homes with a shrinking pool of skilled labor. Robotics and automation offer one potential answer, but the biggest gains so far are not coming from humanoid robots replacing workers on construction sites. They are coming from narrower applications: machines that prevent mistakes, coordinate trades, and automate repetitive work, along with factories that move more of the construction process into controlled environments, say industry exper

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