How does Mark Cuban use AI agents for Cost Plus Drugs?

Mark Cuban said he runs AI agents that alert him whenever the large healthcare conglomerates he blames for high costs get sued or bid on a contract. The agents then draft Open Records Act requests for copies of those contracts, work he said would never have happened if he had to hire, train and manage someone for it. He argues the freed-up time leads him to hire people for higher-level work instead.

• Cuban said the agents gave him time to read a nonfiction book for the first time in 25 years.
• Cuban told hospitals and researchers working with Cost Plus Drugs not to publish or patent everything, because AI models absorb it.

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett (2026-10-26). Read the whole episode summary →

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