{
  "id": 133177,
  "title": "Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/why-r-d-waste-persists-despite-widespread-ai-adoption",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-04T14:51:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IEEE Spectrum",
    "slug": "ieee-spectrum",
    "url": "https://content.knowledgehub.wiley.com/the-2026-rd-benchmark-report-waste-ai-and-the-race-to-market/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend 25 to 40 percent of their R&D budget on projects that never reach market. Why projects fail late. Almost half of teams estimate over one million dollars in wasted investment for…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}