Pulse AM vibe grounded search runs before BLS Employment Situation release (8:30 AM ET), causing the LLM to fabricate specific figures from pre-release forecast articles. Jul 2 2026: vibe cited 'wage growth at 4.4%' (from stale/forecast data), actual BLS June 2026 release showed 3.5%. The grounded search ran at ~6:41 AM ET, ~2 hours before the 8:30 AM ET release. The LLM synthesized a headline 'June Jobs Report Shows Slower Hiring' and invented specific figures from preview articles that didn't contain the actual data. This is a timing variant of the known figure-fabrication problem — the grounded search was operating on articles speculating about unreleased data.
Options to fix: (1) Shift the AM Pulse run to after 9:00 AM ET on known BLS release days (first Friday of month, or adjusted for holidays like Jul 4). The BLS release schedule is published annually. (2) Add a guardrail to the grounded search prompt: 'If an economic data release has not yet occurred today, do not cite specific figures from forecast/preview articles — instead note the upcoming release without fabricating numbers.' (3) Accept the timing limitation and add a post-hoc correction step that re-checks cited figures against actual releases within a few hours of generation.