--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "ed942237ce811032fc5b244fd746b7c308fa27c4ada6e6ef58015568afbd4f92" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/ed942237?lang=en" title: "Intelligence doesn't come cheap as AI drives up costs for the NSA, hospitals, and insurers" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-25T12:03:24.000Z" category: "Industry" topics: ["infra","chips","regulation","cost"] source_urls: ["https://the-decoder.com/intelligence-doesnt-come-cheap-as-ai-drives-up-costs-for-the-nsa-hospitals-and-insurers/"] summary: "The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun. Lawmakers expect full-scale AI oversight to cost tens of billions of dollars a year, while earlier estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put the figure at just $20 million. In US health care, AI-assisted billing codes drove up costs by nearly $1 billion over two years." --- # Intelligence doesn't come cheap as AI drives up costs for the NSA, hospitals, and insurers > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-25T12:03:24.000Z **Category:** Industry **Topics:** infra, chips, regulation, cost ## Summary The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun\. Lawmakers expect full\-scale AI oversight to cost tens of billions of dollars a year, while earlier estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put the figure at just $20 million\. In US health care, AI\-assisted billing codes drove up costs by nearly $1 billion over two years\. ## Sources - [Story source]()