{
  "id": 658068,
  "title": "In the Age of AI, your tech debt is an even bigger issue than you think",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/in-the-age-of-ai-your-tech-debt-is-an-even-bigger-issue-than-you-think",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-12T10:42:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91553842/yesterdays-unpaid-data-debts-are-tomorrows-ai-reckoning-tech-ai"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Only 5% of enterprises say their data is ready for AI . I think the real number might be even lower. Most organizations are about to learn what I spent 15 years teaching companies in the Business Intelligence (BI) era: The problems you ignore don’t disappear. They wait. In business, perfection is impossible and there isn’t time to chase everything. Problems tend to get addressed only when they…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "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."
}