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Why AI Stalls for Health Plans: Turning Data Into Action

Health insurers have built real AI infrastructure. Claims data flows into unified analytics platforms. Predictive models score members for risk. Quality programs track hundreds of clinical measures with precision. And yet the care manager still doesn’t know about the gap before the audit closes. The member still doesn’t get the call in time. The insight sat in a dashboard nobody was watching.

This isn’t primarily a technology problem. It’s a distance problem — between what data knows and what care teams can act on. It’s one of the clearest themes emerging from conversations at this year’s Databricks Data + AI Summit.

The Industry Has Moved Past “AI Is Coming”

Databricks Data + AI Summit (DAIS) 2026 has been clarifying. The conversation has shifted. Fewer organizations are asking whether to adopt AI. More are asking why it isn’t producing outcomes yet.

The conversations this week show the reality — experimentation has...

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Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long-horizon" autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face, the Z.ai API, and more than 20 third-party

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The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

ai + ml Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews HANDS ON That new AI-juiced Siri that Apple rolled out last week at WWDC was supposed to set a new paradigm for on-device AI. But don't believe the hype coming out

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AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created

Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion With no end in sight to the memory crunch, AMD thinks that AI, the main cause of the shortage, could be part of the solution.

AMD Zen 6 desktop CPUs may ditch integrated graphics for a built-in NPU

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Weird if True: Integrated graphics have been a fixture on AMD's desktop Ryzen lineup since the Ryzen 7000 series launched in 2022, less useful for gaming and more as a fallback when

The Industry Has Moved Past “AI Is Coming”

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Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created

AMD Zen 6 desktop CPUs may ditch integrated graphics for a built-in NPU